I’ve been tremendously entertained lately by Pathological Geomorphology, a blog run by “a loosely defined and unified group of geobloggers” which catalogs “images of extreme landscapes,...
the herculez gomez of architecture blogs
the herculez gomez of architecture blogs
http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/islands-draw-the-clouds-and-glaciers-are-wind-catchers/
The Dirt has a lengthy interview conducted by Pierre Belanger with Joe Brown, chief executive of planning, design, and development at AECOM, the architecture and engineering firm that swallowed E...
There’s nothing particularly original about the observation that the Dutch have a peculiar national relationship to their landscape (and, in particular, its hydrology), but that peculiarity pro...
http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/11/the-new-dutch-water-defense-line/
Dutch architects van Bergen Kolpa (with research ecologists Alterra) propose a “Park Supermarket” for the Randstad, transforming polders — historically landscapes of food production, now pr...
Farmers in the Sahel are combating desertification with trees — but by cultivating them, not planting them: Amidst his fields of millet and sorghum, Sawadogo is also growing trees. And the tree...
http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/08/tree-cultivation-in-the-sahel/
Adam Goodheart mulls over the place of the wind turbine in the American landscape: Just a century ago, however, windmills by the hundreds of thousands dotted many of the same landscapes where the...
Time-lapse videos of the urbanization of Dubai, the draining of the Aral Sea, deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, the depletion and replenishment of southern Iraq’s wetlands, and...
http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/time-lapse-earth-observatory/
One of the trends which most observers of global warming warn us could have particularly dire consequences is the rise of sea levels. And not without reason. The recent evacuation of the Cateret ...
http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/05/the-ambiguity-of-seamelt-and-landrise/