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Frontier Mappings
Frederick Jackson Turner’s characterization of the frontier was fundamental to understanding its importance in shaping American societies. His frontier thesis stated that the continual presence and...
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Gateway: National Parks and the Making of the Territory
Towards the end of 2011 the good folks over at PAP released a bookabout New York City’s best big park- Gateway National Park! Gateway is seemingly unique among national parks; rather than an image of...
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Bolivia Mar
[Los Caracoles highway which climbs the Andes from Argentina to Peru; Los Caracoles were part of the Dakar 2010 rally landscape] Last weekend saw the close of the annual Dakar rally raid. We are...
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1776 and a Field of Mirrors
[the hydrological network of Mendoza, Argentina at the edge of the Andean Cordillera includes a massive hydroelectric dam, a municipal park, and the fascinating Campo Espejo de Agua sewage treatment...
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The Transporter Dredge
[a drawing from our Landscapes and Instruments project shows the Avellaneda Transporter Bridge reconstructed as an instrument for cleaning the Riachuelo Canal- a sort of Transporter Dredge] The Old...
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The Bold and the Beautiful
[in the Atacama Salt Flat brines are pumped to the surface from the subterranean hydrological system and held in evaporation pools to concentrate the salts. The subterranean waters are fed by snowmelt...
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Andean Anthropogenic Alluvial Fans
[the mining spoils dump site to the west of the Chiquicamata Mine outside of Calama, Chile in the Atacama desert forms a sort of alluvial fan working towards the Andean cordillera; this anthropogenic...
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Seneca Army Depot
Last week I had the chance to visit the Seneca Army Depot thanks to the Seneca White Deer organization. The Depot occupies over 10,000 acres by the town of Romulus in the Finger Lakes region of...
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Forest City
“Phenotypic Plasticity” by junior Scott Kelly I just posted some representative student work and some conclusions/implications about possible future relationships between forestry and urbanism. The...
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Public Landscapes and the Aesthetics of Toxicity
The following piece was published last fall in the Mexican arts magazine La Tempestad at the behest of the editor Oscar Bennessini and my colleague Rob Holmes. As La Tempestad is published in Spanish,...
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All Theory is Geographical
[trainer loading the unwilling elephant "Sukie" in 1969 at the Belle Island Zoo in Detroit; landscape urbanism can be understood not as a wilderness ontology, but as an attempt to enable and showcase...
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Concluding with American Landscapes
Mexican-ness is not an essence but a history. (Octavio Paz) ["Ramirez Codex"; made in the 16th century, this representation narrates the pilgrimage of the Aztecs from Aztlan to the founding of...
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Landscape Change
[Animated gif- click to start animation with a larger image at a higher resolution, wait 5 seconds for first slide to change] Yarará confined disposal facility on the edge of the Dock Sud...
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Conscientizaçao of the Landscape: Urban Development as Educational Project
This is the second in a two part post on the Matanza Riachuelo Project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The project first caught our attention back in September. You can also read DRDLM’s first post here...
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Canal Ecologies: Toxicity
[a fitting tip of the cap] Today’s excerpt from the Field Guide to Urban Industrial Canals is on the subject of toxicity. For the first installment on hydrology see yesterday’s post, or check out the...
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The Darien Gap
The American frontier is sharply distinguished from the European frontier- a fortified boundary line running through dense populations. The most significant thing about the American frontier is that...
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Triple Frontier
The town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia sits at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers where they slip out of the Shenandoah Valley and head toward the Chesapeake Bay. Here the states of...
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Frontier Mappings
Frederick Jackson Turner’s characterization of the frontier was fundamental to understanding its importance in shaping American societies. His frontier thesis stated that the continual presence and...
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Gateway: National Parks and the Making of the Territory
Towards the end of 2011 the good folks over at PAP released a bookabout New York City’s best big park- Gateway National Park! Gateway is seemingly unique among national parks; rather than an image of...
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Bolivia Mar
[Los Caracoles highway which climbs the Andes from Argentina to Peru; Los Caracoles were part of the Dakar 2010 rally landscape] Last weekend saw the close of the annual Dakar rally raid. We are...
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