Julian Raxworthy
@jujuraxy
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Associate Professor & Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture at University of Canberra. Personal account: opinions, etc are my own.
Australia
Joined May 2012
Fun fact: @Qantas won’t actually cover… anything if your travel was messed up by the #SydneyStorm I begged Lounge staff at CBR not to board me since it was clear I’d miss onward flight to DFW and just fly the next day… which happened. Now stuck in Sydney clutching for hotel
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Teaching grading for the first time in a long time, using George Williams' seminal text and trying to replicate it parametrically... Landform Grading in Grasshopper 1: Platform Cut and Fill https://t.co/r5lhpX77mM via @YouTube
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Please join me for a lecture on my new book "Overgrown: practice between landscape architecture and gardening" @HarvardGSD 23rd October at 11.30am in Stubbins 9room 112)
mitpress.mit.edu
Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardene...
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Please join us at the @mitpbookstore on Oct 22 to hear @jujuraxy discuss why he calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening (and more) in his new book "Overgrown." https://t.co/fMREJlU0wp
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Connecting communities: the gardens that offer more than plants and soil
theguardian.com
As a reflection of the wider city, the community garden’s role as a point of connection between the haves and have-nots is more crucial than ever
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Burn-offs have almost no effect on bushfire risks, Tasmania study finds
theguardian.com
Modelling shows nearly a third of the state would need to be burned to have significant impact on wildfire threat
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How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge
daily.jstor.org
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absorbent?
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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago
theguardian.com
The prehistoric shift towards cultivation began our preoccupation with hierarchy and growth – and even changed how we perceive the passage of time
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Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech. Home and botanical garden of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé (1980 - 2008) Now housing the Islamic Art and the Berber Museum.
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Super project by #ChrisFox. Great to see the timber escalators from Wynyard Stn reinvented in this astonishing sculpture.
We're excited to reveal a new heritage-inspired artwork at Wynyard Station. The sculpture uses 244 treads from the iconic wooden escalators that were upgraded this year. 👌👷 👷♀️
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Sadiq Khan plans network of London water fountains to reduce plastic waste
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Gated communities and privatised privilege | Daily Maverick
dailymaverick.co.za
Last week a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court (Pietermaritzburg) declared invalid several managing association rules of a golfing estate which regulated traffic and discrim...
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Of course landscape architecture is really peripheral to... a botanic garden. grimshaw-designed botanic garden in oman will become the world's largest ecological oasis
designboom.com
arup engineering, grimshaw architects and haley sharpe design have designed the 'oman botanic garden', the largest within the arabian peninsula.
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