‘We may yearn to impart systems-level change, but we are working on discrete sites, with incrementalist tools, within structures that produce injustice.’ How to find new ways of imagining the mission & disciplinary scope for landscape (& architecture)? placesjournal.org/article/design…

giant poster , we love empire say architects , but what abt the nz piece, what are the building ??!!

In a new memo, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will expand the use of nature-based solutions in its civil works projects. Read more in ASLA's THE DIRT. dirt.asla.org/2024/05/28/in-…

"Surrounded by water on three sides, [San Francisco] is in danger as seas rise and flooding worsens from more intense storms...and the sewer system as it stands now is incapable of handling it." @EzraRomero for KQED: kqed.org/science/199327…

Unitec School of Architecture second year BAS students have created 10 material and light installations in celebration of Matariki. These will be installed at Waiwharariki Anzac Sq in Takapuna Friday 28 June and during the Takapuna Market on Saturday 29 June. Unitec

If you’re interested in the Auckland Volcanic Field (or just volcanism and associated hazards), come check out our #DEVORA stall at the MOTAT STEM Educators expo tonight!

Government to 'flood' cities with housing in new planning rules rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

🇫🇷 ❤️ La Marseillaise Casablanca youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc?fe… via YouTube

My new post looks at housing in Runcorn New Town including James Stirling's controversial Southgate Estate (completed 1976, demolished by 1992) that the Development Corporation thought ‘could very well set a new standard in housing design in this country'. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/run…

This is actually why we plant mangroves tress 🌳 🏡 🌊

FOLAR annual symposium on Landscape of Public Health with great speakers including Paul Rabbitts, Catharine Ward Thompson, Robert Holden, Jan Woudstra, Jamie Liversedge Sat 2 November The Museum of English Rural Life or online folar.uk/events/the-lan…

This will be good cambridge.org/us/academic/su…

Urban green spaces have vital role in cutting heat-related deaths, study finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

13/13 Two years ago the Plains became a death zone, as silted-up watergates trapped eels in drains. Ducks with botulism crashed in the stagnant, corpse-filled water. The Plains stank of the future.

‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space theguardian.com/environment/20…

[…] Baldwin, who was fascinated by Istanbul, lived there between 1961 and 1971. During this period, he wrote six of his works, consisting of books and plays […] One of Baldwin's closest friends in Turkey was Yaşar Kemal. Baldwin told Yaşar Kemal, "I feel free in Istanbul."

"Repair is part of neoliberalism. If this world is as shitty as we think it is, then why repair it! Bring the structure of real estate capitalism to its knees. That would be a politics of collapse, of many things falling together." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Rest Is Politics ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart Anthony Scaramucci Marina Hyde Dominic Sandbrook You're both very out of touch with everyday voters and their issues. This guy on CNN brilliantly explains why Trump won: x.com/eveforamerica/…

We can rage about Donald Trump. Or we can be curious about why he appealed to so many | Peter Hyman theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

👏 The Rest Is History 👏 is 👏 in 👏 1st👏place👏 I voted and they need YOU to vote too: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/… #Webbys