{"id":3069,"date":"2010-06-29T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2010-06-29T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T02:23:11","slug":"reading-the-infrastructural-city-chapter-seven-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/reading-the-infrastructural-city-chapter-seven-index\/","title":{"rendered":"reading the infrastructural city: chapter seven index"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[A “feral house” in Detroit, via Sweet Juniper<\/a>, who has many more pictures; houses and porches, of course, cannot be mowed, and so one often finds early successional plants such as Ailanthus taking advantage of that fact while their brethren a few feet away are easily suppressed by even the most sporadic of maintenance regimes; you might also enjoy Sweet Juniper’s flickr set “Life on the Urban Prairie”<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Running with Techentin’s speculation about future cybernetic forests, DPR-Barcelona<\/em> catalog a series of “Performative Organic Machines”<\/a>: telephone wire parasites, “eco-boulevards”, free-roaming mechanical colonies composed of plants, bacteria, and robot.<\/p>\n

Relatedly but not identical, spy upon your suburban neighbors in the Terrestial Shrub Rover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At Free Association Design<\/em>, Brett Milligan contributes a pair of posts, the first a slideshow<\/a> of “spontaneous urban vegetation” in Portland and the second looking at a particular example<\/a> of a constructed urban forest, San Francisco’s Mount Sutro.<\/p>\n

We’ll be back later this week with a post on chapter eight, “Cell Structure”, which looks at the impact of the proliferation of privately-funded, owned, and operated cellular infrastructures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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