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- Green Bloom
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A massive algae outbreak has seized the city of Qingdao. Algae are now blooming over more than 12,900 square kilometers, or 5,000 square miles, of sea water. State media reported that 100,000 tons of the algae had already been taken out of the water. Much of it was being transported to farms as feed for [...]
- Urban Actions
[An image from Denis Darzacq's La Chute series (2006).]
After viewing the “Streets belong to all of us!” exhibition organized by the Paris-based IVM at the Faculty of Architecture at University of Toronto, I was mostly struck by a single image. Denis Darzacq’s photographs feature agile figures in mid-leap, or mid-fall, or even mid-flight. The space [...]
- Bowling for Shade
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) dropped 400,000 HDPE recyclable black plastic balls into Ivanhoe Reservoir. The DWP drop was designed to stop sunlight from mixing with the bromide and chlorine in the 10-acre, 58-million-gallon Ivanhoe Reservoir. The 102-year-old facility serves about 600,000 customers downtown and in South Los Angeles.
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- From Sea to Salted Land
[The Aral Sea, a large saltwater lake, is losing more than half of its surface area in 40 years.]
Uzbekistan, a land-locked country that was once part of the Soviet Union, is home to one of the biggest man-made disasters in history. For decades its rivers were diverted to grow cotton on arid land, causing the [...]
- testing…1 2 3
InfraNet Lab is born. Preoccupied with the scaffolds of our environment, we have initiated this research collective and blog to chart the growing impact of infrastructures and networks (visible and invisible) on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. InfraNet Lab is a reformatting of the Participatory Urbanisms and Productive Landscapes blog.
