{"id":867,"date":"2009-10-13T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:43:06","slug":"places-at-design-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/places-at-design-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"places at design observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The architecture\/urbanism\/landscape journal <em>Places<\/em> has recently <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/\">taken up residency at Design Observer<\/a>; notable new articles include <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=10797\">a review of The Infrastructural City<\/a> by Chris Stooss (with attached <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/slideshow.html?view=137&amp;entry=10797&amp;slide=1\">slideshow<\/a> of Lane Barden&#8217;s wonderful photographs from that book), an article on the relationship between landscape architecture and ecology (excerpted from <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/yupbooks\/book.asp?isbn=9780300135855\">a new book<\/a> on Michael Van Valkenburgh, and so focusing on two projects by Van Valkenburgh&#8217;s office, including the TerraGRAM High Line scheme that I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/high-line-briefly\/\">previously mentioned<\/a> my fondness for), and UrbanLab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=1312\">eco-boulevard proposal for Chicago<\/a>, &#8220;Growing Water&#8221;.  Places has also placed either the entirety or an extensive portion of their archives online (I haven&#8217;t done the work of figuring out which), which means that you can pair The Infrastructural City&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-coming-infrastructure-bubble\/\">warranted<\/a>) skepticism about the ability of infrastructure to &#8220;rescue&#8221; architecture with Linda Samuels&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=1097\">&#8220;Infrastructural Optimism&#8221;<\/a>, from the spring issue of Places.  Or read Whitney Moon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=1144\">&#8220;Reclaiming the Ruin&#8221;<\/a>, on &#8220;ad hoc, underground, and unsanctioned practices&#8221; as a &#8220;remedy for postindustrial ruin&#8221;; Dana Cuff on <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/media\/pdf\/Design_after_D_887.pdf\">&#8220;Design after Disaster&#8221;<\/a>; or Stephen Luoni on <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=828\">the ramifications<\/a> of the emergence of the nonprofit sector, as expressed through architecture in Little Rock.<\/p>\n<p><em>[link via <a href=\"http:\/\/varnelis.net\/microblog\/places_at_the_design_observer\">varnelis<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architecture\/urbanism\/landscape journal Places has recently taken up residency at Design Observer; notable new articles include a review of The Infrastructural City by Chris Stooss (with attached slideshow of Lane Barden&#8217;s wonderful photographs from that book), an article on the relationship between landscape architecture and ecology (excerpted from a new book on Michael Van Valkenburgh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}