futureacademy

How should once mighty cities shrink and die back into the landscape?

From the Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2003/Winter 2004, Number 19, this article on the emergence of landscape urbanism points to several texts/projects that suggest further investigation in relation to the future academy project. The first is Stalking Detroit edited by Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim, and Jason Young which examines the rise and fall of Detroit's manufacturing industry and the accompanying impacts on the city and its disappearance.
The second is Cedric Price's project for a mobile university on abandoned railway tracks Potteries Think Belt of 1964–1965.
See also Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape
and Downsizing Cities by Witold Rybczynski

posted by Chris @ 4:25 pm