RE: All things Green and Dirty v2.0
April 28, 2013 at 3:53 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2013 at 4:19 am by KichigaiNeko.)
Sorry if this is seen as necroposting mods/ staff ...but it is a thread following my gardens' progress and Mother Nature isn't THAT kind here in Oz.... so ....
Dicksonia antartica Recovering from summer here in Oz
Pot of mint outside my Laundry door
Brakefern taking over it's patch
Watch this space for some improvements
Autumn / Winter veggie patch up and running
Pyrotegia venusta Taking over the garden shed
Pyrostegia venusta
Remember that stingy little Passiflora sp vine? Well now it is fruiting and eating the fence! Prunus sp "Lapin cherry" is bolting along too!
All pics taken @ 16:00 Western Australia time... note the length of shadow across the garden
And a personal favourite.... my little "wild spot" near the Dicksonia antarctica is just so luch now I may have to whip out the secateurs to keep it in check!
Rethinking the Urban Grid
Posted April 24, 2013
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/t...urban-grid
Reclaiming the Urban Memory
Posted April 25, 2013
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/c...ban-memory
Sydney 1917
All pics etc Authored by:
Chuck Wolfe.
Saving the Earth with Sustainable Cities [INFOGRAPHIC]
Posted April 26, 2013
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/b...ble-cities
Dicksonia antartica Recovering from summer here in Oz
Pot of mint outside my Laundry door
Brakefern taking over it's patch
Watch this space for some improvements
Autumn / Winter veggie patch up and running
Pyrotegia venusta Taking over the garden shed
Pyrostegia venusta
Remember that stingy little Passiflora sp vine? Well now it is fruiting and eating the fence! Prunus sp "Lapin cherry" is bolting along too!
All pics taken @ 16:00 Western Australia time... note the length of shadow across the garden
And a personal favourite.... my little "wild spot" near the Dicksonia antarctica is just so luch now I may have to whip out the secateurs to keep it in check!
Rethinking the Urban Grid
Posted April 24, 2013
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/t...urban-grid
Quote:As it recently reached its 200th birthday, New York’s street grid provides a prime case study for weighing how we utilize a network of systems that we have come to simply accept as a constant (for any system that should be the first clue that a fresh look is warranted).
Manhattan’s grid covers roughly 25% of its ground plane making it one of the city’s largest infrastructural assets. Originally, the plan was the brainchild of Gouverneur Morris, Jon Rutherfurd and Simeon De Witt: a three member commission assigned by the New York State Legislature to create a plan for the island. The plan, by and large similar to the latticework of streets we know today (though missing Central Park), was proposed in 1807 and finally adopted in 1811. The “New York city block” was born.
Reclaiming the Urban Memory
Posted April 25, 2013
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/c...ban-memory
Quote:preface
One inspiration for my new book, Urbanism Without Effort, came in 2010, from an unexpected find in a Seattle used bookstore. This discovery led to interviews and exposure to incomparable photographs, some over a century old.
“Reclaiming the Urban Memory” first appeared in myurbanist in 2010, when it was also featured by Kaid Benfield in his blog and in The Huffington Post. A revised version appeared in 2011, both in myurbanist and Grist.
Given the passage of almost two years, and the considerable number of new readers interested in cities and urban history, the story is well worth a rerun, as slightly updated below.
Here, for new readers and old, is the stirring work of Burton Holmes, a continued and motivating force in my work, and by inference, a catalyst for us all.
Sydney 1917
All pics etc Authored by:
Chuck Wolfe.
Saving the Earth with Sustainable Cities [INFOGRAPHIC]
Posted April 26, 2013
Quote:If you’re after some ideas for sustainable cities, we’d like to think that our archive of content is a good place to spend a few hours. But if you’re after a more digestible snapshot, this recently-released infographic is also worth your attention. It may not be breaking news that the global urban population is set to increase over the coming decades, but did you know about the green tech hub being built in Tianjin, China or the predicted boom in job opportunities for sustainable cities professionals?
Check out the infographic below, courtesy of CityTownInfo.com:
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/b...ble-cities
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