Posts tagged with “Fairmount Park”

Dreams of Daylighting

6 June 2011

The Mexico City rivers in question are covered over by highways and choked by sewage and trash. The architects’ plan is to remove the highways, clean the water, and build parks, meadows, and trails—so desperately needed in that smothering city of 25 million. ““It’s urban surgery. It’s not acupuncture,” said the project’s lead architect, ElÍas Cattan.

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Nature’s Balance

10 January 2008 | Philly Skyline

“Density is our salvation,” says the landscape architect McGlade, and in Headhouse of course, there’s enough density of everything to make it a dynamic and transformative public space. But McGlade has in mind the efficiencies in energy, transportation, and land use brought about by density.

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