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the praises of this Mediterranean city?
h s been reinventing Itself through
to newsagency magazine racks.
G1uomo Delbene, Borcel/ono. TrOllS/armor/ani conlftmporonee. M eltemi edltore, Roma 2007. ISBN
nised the increasing urban nature of the profession. The following years saw a change in those who contributed to the publication.ln its initial decades the contributors to the journal had been almost
978,88-8353-542-0, € 28,In Italian.
exclusively industry professionals, the leaders of their field. By the early
The book wili also be available In an
1990s, a younger generation of practitioners and students was writing for a
extended Spanish version end of
publication that sported an updated look to reflect a new editorial direction.
2007: Proyecto BC N.AJuntament de
Barcelona Publisher.
Around 2001 the journal moved to Universal Magazines and entered its current period of high-quality print production and graphic reproduction. The front motto disappeared. Then Kirsty McKensie brought to the editorship a breadth of connection to other design disciplines. The content continued to evolve, with more critically-based articles seen in the mix of general articles. The wider design community had become involved, and a greater sense of openness prevailed as to what landscape architecture encompassed. Australian landscape architecture had grown to include a strong culture of writing and critique, with an emerging class of academics and educators whose experiences were no longer tied to day-to-day professional practice. Landscape Architecture Australia is now an international publication that reflects the broadest scope of what landscape architecture can be seen to represent today.
Kirsten Baur with Adrian Marshall
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PRODUCT to look at, making the bench ideal for a free-standing position. The timber elements are made from louro gamela, but other types of FSC wood can be ordered. The final question is how big 'Big' actually is. The Big Bench is 3-60 metres long, with a back height of a bout 80 centimetres. To try it out foryourself,you will have to go to Grijsen in Winterswijk, the Netherlands. It cannot be seen anywhere else. More information: www.grijsen.nl
Efficient There is a widespread desire for greener towns and cities. But the fact
Materia's Inspiration Centre In Enter, the Netherlands.
is, trees frequently have to compete for space with parking places. The
Informative Materia has the largest materials
find out where you can have a photo
tion process, which normally takes
print made in concrete, or who makes
hundreds of years, to producing a hard
of systems to resolve this conflict is
translucent concrete. But because a
material in just a few days. The tech-
therefore particularly welcome. The
appearance on the market of all sorts
database in the Netherlands. Its
picture on a website is never the real
nique was actually developed for the
Silva Cell system is one example. It is a
website offers access to more than
thing, Materia has opened an Inspira-
road and hydraulic engineering
modular stacking system of plastic
1500 innovative materials. You can
tion Centre at its premises in Enter
sectors to harden sand foundations
units resembling light crates which
search for materials by property,
(Netherlands), where all its materials
and embankments to prevent subsi-
are buried in the ground and can bear
designer or manufacturer using the
are not only on display but, at least as
dence. But it might also be used to
traffic loads. They are easy to position
Material Explorer. For each material
important, are there to be touched
make scale models: a fun day out on
and do not have to be attached to
there is a description of sensorial
and felt. Materia also publishes a
the beach with the whole office, or
each other. The units are filled with
properties, such as flexibility or
newsletter on the latest innovations to
the family.
soil, through which the tree can freely
translucence, as well as technical
become available. An example from
More information: www.materia.nl
root. They have many advantages.
properties such as weather resistance.
the latest newsletter: sand that
To go directly to the search facility: mate-
They create more space for parking
rialexplorer.com
You can follow links to manufacturers'
through the addition of a liquid
websites for more information on
containing bacteria (BioGrouting)
places because the paving can be brought closer to the trees, and
applications. For designers this
becomes as hard as sandstone. The
amounts to an interesting digital
'nutrient stock' feeds a process in
library full of valuable information
which the sand grains 'grow'together.
The firm Grijsen park & straatde-
and a source of inspiration, if only to
The additive speeds up this cementa-
sign is fond of big and sturdy. Which is
Big
designs for parking places and public squares can be greener. The trees benefit too: the roots are better protected and the uncompacted soil
handy, because designer Wim Poppinga has the same preference. They have come up with the Big Bench. The Big Bench has a seat and back made of sturdy wooden slats on a cast aluminium frame. The corners of the support profile give the bench its sturdy character. The timber is untreated; the aluminium can be left plain or powder coated with a colour. A nice detail is that the top plank in the back and the front plank of the seat run across the full width of the bench (Le. not between the aluminium supports). The back is also attractive
The Sliva Cell system.
The Big Bench.
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can be fitted into dikes and quaysides. The products are highly adaptable to a wide range of situations and stand out for efficient use. A couple of men or women can erect a whole dam within a few hours, which is considerably quicker, lighter and easier than shifting sandbags. The newest product is the Dutchdam-Delta, a foldable dam that can be clicked together quicker at high water. Aluminium braces at the back keep the structure upright, but there are no nuts and bolts in this dam. Designer Corne Rijlaarsdam was also behind the earlier Dutchdam-Duplo, which can hold back eighty centimetres of water. These dams have already been used Extra long and elegant pavers by Wienerberger.
along the river Liffy in the centre of Dublin. The new folding Delta version
can absorb more water, which makes
sions. The long format bricks (approx.
as guidance for blind people. Other
the system act as a water buffer. And
240x80x60 millimetres) are made
patterns are possible, depending on
retain up to two metres of water.
that is good for the urban ecosystem
using a wooden mould to shape the
the size of the order. These bricks
Besides the feeling of security these
in the city. The Silva Cell system can
clay into bricks before being fired. A
allow markings for the blind to
products give, there is also an aesthet-
resist pressures from heavy vehicles
little longer still, the street paver
become an integral part of the paving,
ic reason for choosing them. Both
model (approx. 300X1oox52 millime-
rather than having to break the colour
products can be stored entirely in the
tres) is made in a brick press. The
in the brick pattern.
quayside or bank. The only visible
More information: www.wienerberger.nl
element remaining is a strip of
up to 18,000 kilograms. Is there a future for the street tree? More information: www.greenmax.eu
Extra Large Brick paving is not generally consid-
bricks are cut from a long strip of clay and fired on a flat surface, which
aluminium, which can be used as a
makes the surface of the bricks a little
footpath or cycle path, thus retaining
smoother and more even. These sizes allow the use of different patterns
Dry Excessive rainfall, swelling rivers-
ered to be a fast moving field. All the
and layouts to create a different
more special, therefore, when new
appearance in the surface of streets
without more innovative flood protec-
brick pavers come onto the market.
and squares. The long size comes in a
tion. A new solution to this old prob-
Wienerberger is adding two longer,
broad spectrum of dark shades.
lem, now highly topical because of
elegant bricks to its gamma Terca
is available in various heights and can
More news from Wienerberger:
the view of the landscape. More information: www.dutchdam.nl
the Dutch will not keep their feet dry
climate change, is the Dutchdam. The
brick paver series. The extra long
street pavers with an embossed
company of the same name designs
pavers can be supplied in two dimen-
pattern of spots, diamonds or crosses
and builds folding flood barriers that
Ginette 810m Ginette 810m is ontwerper open bare ruimte en wetenschappelijk hoofddocent aan de Hogeschool voor de Kunst te Utrecht. www.blom-moors.nl
[email protected] Dutchdam-Duplo along the river L1Hy In the centre of Dublin.
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Surabaya - after Jakarta the biggest port in Indonesia - was until '947 an important naval base and centre of Dutch colonial power. At the beginning of the twentieth century the Dutch extended the city according to European town planning principles and techniques. The population of the city, then still called Soerabaja, grew from 150,000 in 1905 to 400,000 in 1941, the year this map was made.
Unfinished Soerabaya black-and ·white line of the port rail-
roads, one going east, the other west:
for Dutch residents along the Tanjung
from a topographical map on which
The section of map depicted here is
way at this point bends around the
the Tanjung Perak Barat and the
Perak Barat.
details were added In '945. This Infor-
Krambangan district, in the western
Tanjung Perak Timor (barat means
mation was obtained from Allied
part of the old city. The modern era is
west, timor east).
reconnaissance flights that had taken
represented on the map by Tandjoeng
A striking detail Is the relatively
Surabaya has grown enormously since colonial times. The Goebeng district has crossed the railway and ,
place until June '944. The original
Perak, the airport zone just south-
empty area between the port and the
map (scale 1:50,000) was published in
west of the port complex, built
city, the western part of which Is
now as Gubeng , has spread rapidly
1941 under the title Java en Madoera
between 1939 and '940. The map also
squeezed in between the new airport
eastwards. More than three million
by the Topografische Dienst in Neder-
reveals that the ' military establish ·
and the TanJung Perak. At the begin-
people now live in an urban region in
lands -Indie. In those days the urban
ment' has considerably expanded. A
ning of the '920S the Dienst voor het
which the old Soerabaya and other
area extended for more than twelve
large area around the eastern docks
Havenwezen, Departement der Burg-
places such as lamongan and Mojok-
kilometres, from the port and the
has now been developed and a new
erlijke Open bare Werken (the public
erto have coalesced to form
mouth ofthe river Kali Mas at the top
peninsula has been reclaimed. The
works department of the port
Surabaya. The map does not show the
of the map to Wonokromo at the
map shows Soerabaya at the height
authority) drew up plans for the
complete picture, though. While the
bottom.
of Its colonial expansion. In the
extension of the port to the south-
row of houses along the Tanjung
Bovenstad (Upper Town), which clings
west. The plan was ambit ious
Perak Barat still stands, Soerabaya
The key is simple. The urban area is coloured light red, the roads dark red.
to the meanders further up the Kal!
because the city's economy had
has not become a big European city.
The Kall Mas and the canals In and
Mas , the extensions dating from the
grown rapidly In the previous few
That could never be, because
around the city are shown in blue, as
1920s are complete. One of these is
years, with the completion of the
Surabaya is in Indonesia.
Is Oosterwater (now called Selat
the Goebeng neighbourhood , on a
Amsterdamkade and the Rotter·
Madura), the bay that separates
branch line of the tram network.
damkade, and the development of
Surabaya from the island of Madura to the north. The parks and other green spaces, In green, are found
Soerabaya Is a linear city. The river Kali Mas has been joined by canals
Perak. With the exception of the new airport, little of these plans was actu -
mainly at the edges of the city and
and railway lines, all built to connect
ally built because of the recession of
some in nearby agricultural areas,
the hinterland, the old dty and
'910-23. Although new buildings did
which consist in parts of small parcels
Bovenstad to the port complex. The
appear along the TanJung Perak
marked off in blue.
same goes for the road infrastruc·
Barat, many of the streets behind run
ture, which dominates much of the
through vacant land. The original
map. One of these roads is the
plans for this area were for an Asian
TanJung Perak, a sort of boulevard
and a European district for port work-
that the urban area just above the
running along the west of the old city
ers and navy personnel. But they got
middle of the map is denser. The
to the port. The road is in fact two
little further than the row of houses
The map is not all that legible. But on closer inspection it becomes clear
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Rob van der 8ijt
the quayslde along the TanJung The map belongs to the collection held by the Topograflsche Dienst Nederland and Is Illustrated In the Book Soerabaya 1900-1950. Havens, Marine. Stad~beeld, published by Asia Malor, Zierlkzee, 2004
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Presentations at1FLA2008 Transforming with Water; A Hot Item Forum Transforming with Water is the theme of the 2008 World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects. The 45th IFLA World Congress will be held in the Netherlands from June 30 to July 3
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June 30 -July 3, 2008
We invite individuals, or group of individuals to send in proposals for presentation and/or discussion on themes of the day: June 30th: Living with Water Juli 1st : Land Meets Water Juli 2nd :Flow of Water The Fora will be held in a central room in the Congress venue, presentations are held simultaneously and last for 45 minutes.
Contact: IFLA2008 POBox 37756
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JOB OPENING - TWO FACULTY POSITIONS, Landscape Architecture Department. Clemson, South Carolina, USA. Tenure-track positions at the assistant or associate professor level beginning August 15, 2008 are offered .
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