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AA Landscape Urbanism
It was in 2000 that the Chinese government formulated a plan to build 400 new cities by 2020, in order to install the migration coming from the countryside towards the new urban agglomerations. This is the equivalent of 20 cities per week.

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Roberto Burle Marx, Dusque de Cexias Square (1948)

The exhibition in the MoMa in New York draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.

In recent decades “landscape” has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. read more

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Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans. This should make for one exciting ride! read more

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It is the combination of the golden proportions, geology and inverted architecture that makes this project so enticing. There is also some strange reference to Arthur C Clark+Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey that we can’t help but love.

“A moon of Saturn resting on a doric foundation” by Robert Andrade and Daniel G. Baird. The ancient Greek masterpiece, the Parthenon, has been turned upside down to rest on its peak. Covering the new and exposed foundation is a computer interpreted dataset from a landscape representing Saturn’s moon Titan. read more

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Fresh water supply is one of the most pressing environmental issues facing the world today. Only 3% of the earth’s water is fresh and only a small part of this is available to man. In the U.S. alone, 3,700 billion more gallons of water per year are extracted than are returned to natural water systems, creating an annual water deficit. In rural America, aquifers provide 99% of all drinking water and the average age of water in those aquifers is 1,600 years. As the water level in these aquifers drops year after year, water is becoming one of our most precious and endangered resources. Enjoying centuries of abundant water supply, Americans are largely unaware of the potential environmental crisis facing future generations. read more

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