Growing the city into forest
[z 1,1][ ⋇ ] Time is distance. And distance slowly opens its way through time. In two or three weeks sailing, time is going to stretch according to sea’s behaviour. It will also become proportional to action. The untold luck, yet foilers’ speed, is that of setting the planet back to a human scale. (Halvard …
[ ⋇ ] Indigenous peoples have been pigeonholed by social scientists into one of two categories, “hunter-gatherer” or “agriculturist,” obscuring the ancient role of many indigenous peoples as wildland managers and limiting their use of and impacts on nature to the two extremes of human intervention. The image evoked by the term hunter-gatherer is of …
[ ⋇ ] The tree tenant symbolizes a turn in human history because he regains his rank as an important partner of man. The relationship man – vegetation must have again religious dimensions. Only if you love the tree like yourself you will survive. We suffocate in our cities through poison and lack of oxygen. We …
compost. [ ⋇ ] We think with knowledge-as-humus*. We are dedicated to the ubiquitous queer knowledges embodied in the entangled performances of the myriad earthlings. How critters and things make and unmake/are made and unmade by things and critters. Plants and humans are continually affecting/becoming affected by one another in their inter(intra)active becomings*. And they …
koichi takada architects – https://koichitakada.com/ [ ⋇ ] We are living in an era of unprecedented growth in cities— the future is decidedly urban. Never before have so many people lived in cities, and of such great magnitude. The United Nations now predicts that the world will have 43 megacities (over 10 million people) by …
[ B 1,1] [ ⋇ ] Ecopolis isn’t a brand, it’s a theoretical position Ecopolis appears to be just another word for ecocity, but it harbours some profound, albeit subtle, differences. Simply put, the concept of ecopolis (that I favour and have promoted publicly since 1989) is broadly shared by Russian, Chinese, Italian, and other …
[ B 2,1 ] [ ⋇ ] It’s a question of tactics. Civil society does not respond at all well to moralistic scolding. There are small minority groups here and there who are perfectly aware that it is immoral to harm the lives of coming generations by massive consumption now: deep Greens, Amish, people practicing …
[ ⋇ ] 1893, GoshenStill later that August, during the first year of the panic, the good women of Goshen staged a tree-planting ceremony in the schoolyard, to beautify their world. The children, the mayor, and other townspeople assembled to plant two big-leaf maples, a linden, and—someone’s supreme inspiration—a Douglas fir. They were disappointed that …
[ ⋇ ] There are designed projects in the built environment where urbanism is “forest.” These artworks, buildings, landscapes, and development strategies have in common the idea of an underlying matrix, or a surrounding substance and foundation, made of a continuing and resilient ecosystem of trees, understory vegetation, wildlife, soils and microorganisms, terrestrial and atmospheric …
[ ⋇ ] It is proposed to plant from one to three examples of each species of tree on open lawn, and with sufficient space about each to allow it to attain its fullest size with unrestricted expanse of branches; the effect of each tree is also to be exhibited iu masses, so as to illustrate …