Cumberland Corner | Nashville USA | Edward Krafcik


As a thriving community and precedent for brownfield redevelopment, Cumberland Corner | Nashville is envisioned as the new, hip destination centered on recreation and health. In blending a culture of fitness enthusiasm with sport, living, working, dining, healthcare, food production and a vibrant water front, the neighborhood becomes truly revolutionary.

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Veennet – network of initiatives | Posad Spatial Strategies with MBDSO & Machiel Bakx

Veennet – network of initiatives | Posad Spatial Strategies with MBDSO & Machiel Bakx

Eo Wijers foundation organizes competitions every few years aiming to solve regional planning and landscape design issues in the Netherlands.  This year teams were asked to design strategies how to deal with population shrinkage in peripheral, on agriculture based areas in the north of the country.

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The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall

Ken Belson of the New York Times has written an interesting piece about green walls which looks at the green wall as a source of food production. Belson talks to a varied number of designers, universities and manufacturers about the green walls as food production. He also states that at $500 a panel they aren’t for everyone.

Belson has a great quote he cites from Paul Mankiewicz, the executive director of the Gaia Institute in New York.

“We have 30 miles of rooftop in New York City and maybe 3,000 miles of walls,”

Read the article at the SOURCE: New York Times – The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall