Reconsidering Hilberseimer's Chicago

The German architect and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer spent the second half of his career as an internationally influential urbanist, author, and educator while living and working in Chicago. The city of Chicago provided both context and content to inform his theories of planning the American city. While in Chicago, Hilberseimer taught hundreds of students, authored dozens of publications, and conceived of his most significant and enduring professional projects. Yet, in spite of these three decades of work on and in Chicago, the relationship between Hilberseimer’s planning proposals and the specific urban history of his adopted hometown remains obscure. This commentary reconsiders the role that Chicago played in Hilberseimer’s work as well as the impact that his work had on the planning of the city

Ex-formation as a method for mapping smellscapes

‘Every city, let me teach you, has its own smell.’ This quote, from an early chapter of E.M. Forster’s ‘A Room With a View’, points to a humanistic understanding of global urban smellscapes with the potential therein for shared understanding. Exploring options for the communication of Singapore’s ‘own smell’ this visual essay suggests how ‘ex-formation’ may be used as to probe one ontological view of the map…. The main characteristic of an ex-formation approach is ‘unlikely combination as suggestion’ e.g. tarmac roads in place of a river surface alluding to the changing scale of a river from trickle to delta, inedible organic matter packaged in white styrofoam with clear food product labelling suggesting a hygienic trust of shrink-wrapped food over natural produce, miniature underwear on inanimate objects suggesting that objects too might have nudity... Smell and visual is one such unlikely combination suggesting that invisible smell objects can be pervasive and imbued with colour

The landscape urbanism reader

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Landscape as urbanism

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Landscape Urbanism

La formulazione di una nuova tassonomia urbana incentrata sul Landscape Urbanism come disciplina del rinnovo del progetto è ormai divenuta una posizione teorica prevalente rispetto al dibattito accademico internazionale. Il saggio descrive come tre posizioni dominanti, espresse nei contributi specifici di Charles Waldeheim, Mosè Ricci e Alfredo Ramirez, interpretino la dimensione del paesaggio quale struttura in grado di informare la pratica professionale verso una dimensione più ampia: quella della pratica territoriale e dell’impatto del progetto urbano ad una scala più ampia. Il questo senso le Swinging Cities dell’eterno presente descrivono un tempo lento in cui il paesaggio e le dinamiche ambientali si sostituiscono all’architettura quale elemento ordinatore della scena urbana

William Gilson Farlow miscellaneous specimen lists : collectors F-G.

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William Gilson Farlow miscellaneous specimen lists : collectors F-G.

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