{"id":7003,"date":"2014-11-06T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:11:37","slug":"excavations-shockwaves-and-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/excavations-shockwaves-and-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavations, Shockwaves, and Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September, I spoke at an event organized by The Architectural League and co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2014\/10\/5kl-land\/\">&#8220;The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land&#8221;<\/a>. The Architectural League has recently posted video from the event, so you can now watch the many presentations and discussions; I particularly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2014\/11\/spatial-logistics\/\">Jesse LeCavalier&#8217;s dissection of UPS&#8217;s advertising slogan &#8220;Logistics makes the world&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2014\/10\/nature-and-the-city\/\">Eric Sanderson and Ted Steinberg on New York City&#8217;s natural history and development<\/a> (Steinberg&#8217;s image of the &#8220;1914 plan to redeem 50 square miles in New York harbor&#8221; is amazing), <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2014\/11\/density\/\">Albert Pope&#8217;s discussion of urban morphologies<\/a> (which concludes by &#8220;reimagin[ing] the Fifth Ward in Houston as a dense, carbon neutral neighborhood&#8221;), and <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2014\/11\/density\/\">Charles Waldheim&#8217;s meditation on the disciplinary history of landscape architecture<\/a> (of particular interest to readers of my <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/on-landscape-science\/\">previous post on &#8220;landscape science&#8221;<\/a>). My own presentation is embedded below. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/110797867\">watch the panel discussion<\/a> that followed with LeCavalier, Alex Klatskin, and moderator Coral Davenport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/110795170\" height=\"295\" width=\"525\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Omnibus has a <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanomnibus.net\/2014\/11\/recap-5kl-land-symposium\/\">longer recap of the full event<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This presentation drew on work that I\u2019ve been doing both with the <a href=\"http:\/\/dredgeresearchcollaborative.org\/\">Dredge Research Collaborative<\/a> (Stephen Becker,\u00a0Brian Davis, Tim Maly, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth) and <a href=\"http:\/\/caseylancebrown.com\/\">Casey Lance Brown<\/a>\u00a0(P-REX); in particular, a talk that Brian, Brett, and I worked on for last summer&#8217;s EDRA45 conference, entitled &#8220;The Engineering Shockwave of the Panama Canal Expansion&#8221;. (If you pay close attention to the credits on the slides, you&#8217;ll see that some of the drawings shown in the presentation belong to several of those collaborators.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September, I spoke at an event organized by The Architectural League and co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, &#8220;The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land&#8221;. The Architectural League has recently posted video from the event, so you can now watch the many presentations and discussions; I particularly recommend Jesse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,29,15,3,43,397],"tags":[838,837,861,461,839],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futures","category-geography","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","category-landscape-architecture","category-the-expanded-field","tag-5kl","tag-architectural-league","tag-dredge","tag-logistics","tag-panama-canal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}