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The City of Melbourne in Australia has developed an urban forest strategy as the expect to lose 27% of the city’s tree population in the next decade and 44% in the next twenty years. As the world’s most liveable city it realises that trees are a major part of the livability and that action needs to be taken. Melbourne’s urban forest is facing two significant future challenges: climate change and urban growth. Urban Forest Strategy seeks to manage this change and protect against future vulnerability by providing a robust strategic framework for the evolution and longevity of Melbourne’s urban forest.
Increase diversity of the tree species is also key as using only 2 or 3 species can leave the city’s urban forest to vulnerable to disease. The urban forest strategy includes a plan for increase tree species diversity thus increase the biodiversity within the city. The draft urban tree strategy is open for public comment and can be downloaded from the City of Melbourne.
Urban Forest Eco-City Forum is a free event to discuss the Urban Forest Strategy in an open forum at Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday 30 November 6:30pm – 8:30pm. Bookings through [email protected]
This unique exhibit will feature a selection of entries from the recent Living Wall Studio Competition – a joint collaboration between the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and Lafarge North America. Featured projects will showcase the creativity of UBC’s Master of Architecture students. Competitors were challenged to design a revolutionary precast building envelope component that utilizes the properties of ultra-high-performance concrete – pushing the concept of enclosure while addressing complications related to molds, casting and precast work. The exhibit centrepiece, the winning design by Pat Danielson and Sam Ostrow, illustrates an innovative living wall concept.
The AIBC Gallery is free and open to the public Monday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Event: November 17, 2011 – January 9, 2012
IMAGE: AIBC
CURRENT WORK: Michael Van Valkenburgh, Michael van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA)
“Parks, a Campus, and Three Summer House Gardens”
Michael Van Valkenburgh will present the recent work of his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA). Based in Brooklyn and Cambridge, MVVA is a landscape architecture firm, which works on projects in scale from the city to the campus to the garden. MVVA’s commissions have sought to achieve an “ecological urbanism,” with projects such as the Master Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Wellesley College, and built work like Mill Race Park and Allegheny Riverfront Park.
Current Work
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
“Parks, a Campus, and Three Summer House Gardens”
Introduced and moderated by Kate Orff
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
7:00 p.m.
The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
1.5 CEUs
Evelio Contreras and Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post have made a short video about the Occupy D.C. movement and their transformation of McPherson Square into an urban hub. An interesting take on the movement that has spread across the world.
John Danahy is a professional Landscape Architect, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Toronto, and has developed an internationally recognized expertise in digital media for design, planning and visualization. During the video(10:28) he presents a brief history of his use of visualization programs and then goes on to discuss how he used visualization tools for Lakeview Legacy project in Canada.
Google Earth and Street View has been a useful tools for landscape architects, architects, urbanists and other built environment professionals. Google has moved Street View cameras onto trikes to photograph and map the world’s parks and included the vision in Street View. The parks in Street View include the High Line in New York, Kensington Park in London, Konganei Park in Tokyo, Casa de Campo Parque in Madrid and many others. So now it possible to visit or revisit some of the world’s greatest parks through Street View.
Below is a video of short history of the High Line and Street View with co-founders of the Friends of the High Line.
A Mother Recovered – The Sanlihe Greenway, China, designed by Turenscape, has won the ‘World’s Best Landscape Project’ award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2011.
The presentation of the WAF Awards are taking place during the largest global celebration of architecture – the World Architecture Festival, which is being held at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) this week.
The Sanlihe Greenway has transformed a former garbage dump into a scenic water byway. The 135 hectare byway demonstrates how neglected landscapes can be altered to provide habitats for native biodiversity, create spiritual and aesthetic benefits and act as catalysts for urban development.
The project was selected by a panel of esteemed architects and designers, beating off competition from a shortlist of seven entries.
The jury commended the project, saying “This project stands as a powerful message of defiance…Against crushing demands on our fragile and finite environment, Turenscape have shown, with their landscaping work, that a desolate and polluted wasteland can be transformed into a wilderness of natural beauty. As such they have gifted us with a shining exemplar and a beacon of hope.”
Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design led in a discussion with Hiteshkumar M. Hathi, Producer, NPR’s ‘Here and Now.’ gave a lecture ‘The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism’ on Friday, October 21, 2011 at Harvard GSD. Sadly, the organisers have disallowed embedding but you can goto Vimeo to watch the lecture.
