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Socially Yours
Landscape Architecture, April 2013 Banal tweets (“Just had an awesome sandwich at the Corner Cafe!”), status updates steeped in false modesty (“So humbled to be named Attorney of the Year”), and viral cat videos: None of these would exist without social media. Over the past few years, traffic on websites like Facebook and Twitter has…
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Cracking the Sarcophagus
The Architect’s Newspaper, March 7, 2013 Following last year’s National Mall Design Competition, which awarded plans to restore the ecology of the Mall and nestle a grass-roofed pavilion into its turf, landscape urbanism has chalked up another win in Washington. This time, however, there’s a starchitect name attached, as well as $50 million in private…
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Bing in the Burbs
The Architect’s Newspaper, Feb. 27, 2013 Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson put the phrase “retrofitting suburbia” into the urbanist lexicon back in 2008, when they published a book about a movement to turn dying malls and car-choked strips into mixed-use, walkable places. Slowed by the recession, the movement roared back into view in Maryland this…
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Seven Is Enough
Architect, January 2013 It’s 2013, otherwise known as Year 13 of Andrea Dietz’s quest to become a registered architect. Dietz may technically be an intern, but her résumé doesn’t read like it. The assistant graduate chair of the Woodbury University School of Architecture, she previously worked for the activist design practices of Design Corps and…
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Against Work-Life Balance
Parlour, Jan. 10, 2013 “Why should I let the toad work / Squat on my life?” asked the poet Philip Larkin in 1954. Since then, the notion that work and life are more or less antithetical – that work interferes with our enjoyment of “real”, personal or family life – has become entrenched. It has…
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