Highways of Death
See Pruned and Roadside Memorials for details of what prompted this.GloballyFrom WikipediaThe Highway of Death refers to a road between Kuwait and Basra on which the retreating Iraqi army was attacked...
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Over the last few days I've had to fiddle with my Firefox config, so, in addition to a slip in attribution, I decided I would look into options for finding permalinks, copying URLS, and pasting them....
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Remedial Landscapes
These are visualisations of a discursive landscape, but they could equally be visualisations of micro-medical terrain, in which case the idea of remedial landscapes shifts to a heretofore unexplored...
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Subliminal Gardening
Where is it written that gardening is a form of subliminal activity? That the organisation of space on an experiential, sensory basis proceeds from desires that verbalisation cannot satisfy? Where is...
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Can't Get There From Here
while producing geology from objects...Inspiration strikes again in the form of a comment that's a bit too long, in response to this BLDGBLOG post.If McPhee were to take in this earlier post, he might...
View ArticleComments while Blogger is broken
Blogger comments have been busted of late, so I've posted comments here while waiting for things to get fixed. I've also subscribed to Haloscan, but haven't pointed it anywhere just yet, so cannot...
View ArticleUrban form as an expression of poverty
After the spate of posts about the futures of urban architecture, the development of peri-urban settlements, squatter cities, and changing perspectives on urban density, I am wondering what future high...
View ArticleSlum Design
Of Cities and Slums"All interesting, but I'm left wondering when "urban" and 'city' become synonymous with 'slum'?"Perhaps the term reflects planners' despair at the prospects for planned cities....
View ArticleA Fenciful, Fencival Charrette
Prunings Twenty-OneAffencive design: Apropos fifty fences, perhaps Kenna would be interested in snow-draped fences along the USA-Mexico border. Some ten million of them would fit in the 1,951 mile...
View ArticleBreaking Bonds
Some salient bits from a NYT story about joblessnessTo be honest, I’m kind of looking for the home run,” said Christopher Priga, who is 54 and has not had steady work since he lost a job with a...
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