Andrew Montgomery

I cannot wait for the summer rain.

Now that we have become an urban species, we are compelled to harness urban ecosystems to improve sustainability and human health and strengthen our relationship to the natural world.

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FInally some affirmation. ASLA’s the dirt putting words in my mouth:

link: http://dirt.asla.org/category/ecosystem-services/

this guest post is by Mark Simmons, PhD, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Christine Thuring (Chlorophyllocity) from the University of Sheffield.

(via ally-czechowicz)

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Analysis for Capstone, still needs a lot of work/anno’s. Now back to design development

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Edge Typology study for Capstone 3.8.2013

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The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the land, for air, for the dear earth underfoot.

— Henry Beston - My outermost cabin

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Mantra for 2013

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absolutecuddlebug:

The river above the river Magdeburg Water Bridge Germany.

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

— Einstein

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir (central park) vs Silver Lake Reservoir, to consistant scale.

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Studio Charrette 2.8.2013

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Studio Charrette 2.8.2013

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The ever life giver

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watershedplus:

A floating swimming pool for New York that would filter river water through its walls. Via Dezeen

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watershedplus:

The Pozzo di San Patrizio is a well in Orvieto, Umbria, built between 1527 and 1537 to provide water in case of disaster or siege. Access to the water is provided by two two superimposed, independent and non-communicating stepped helical ramps, which allowed mules to carry empty and full water vessels separately in downward and upward directions without obstruction.

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