An Overbearing Sense of the Ecological Apocalypse

June 19, 2015

An Overbearing Sense of the Ecological Apocalypse

Travelling through Singapore at the moment I am struck by the city's approach to nature. A place more than any constrained by space, Singapore see its environment both functionally and mystically. Dosed with a healthy sense of the English Picturesque, the Gardens by the Bay is driven by a beautiful interpretation of the ecological apocalypse.

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Broken Field is a blog exploring landscape architecture as well as, but not limited to, aesthetics, urbanism, wind, myrmecology, islands, walls, Peppa the Pig, unfinished visions, carbon dioxide, Mad Max, territory, nasi lemak, anthropo-sumthing-or-other, industrial farming, the picturesque, Yuan Yu, the earth rise, atomism, mastodons, ouroboroi, the key-line farming method, Taobao, maps, groves of trees, fables, home, pottery, 1788, drones, impenetrable French philosophy, choreography, entanglement, unkempt suburban grass, the East Asian – Australasian Flyway, fluvial models, killing idols, Correa alba ‘Dusky Bells’, shifting baselines, ecotones, Shaoxing rice wine, landscape urbanism bullshit generators, messy ecosystems, etiology, place, undermining, knowledge, highly processed carbohydrates, George Carlin, global warming, children, PM2.5, entropy, ‘Straya, Lao Tzu, Lawrence Halprin, promenades, smashed glass, borrowing views, dead dingoes, memory, the kapsalon, the ecological apocalypse, nourishing terrains, crimson, Atari, David Cronenberg, shopping mall carparks, Morocco, powdered milk, weeds, the seventh letter of the alphabet, bamboo, ancient Mesopotamia, coal, borders, meadows, low art, Ian McHarg, the arrow of time, cartography, medicine balls, 33EMYBW, country, hair, The Great Australian Dreamtime, edge conditions, 8, meta-meta, Q, the misanthropocene, Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses, Aleister Crowley, I Ching, Uluru, meditation, relationships, territorialisation, representation, the viridic, management, strange objects, hutongs, governments, familymart, urban agriculture, Rodger Moore, mosaics, French gardens, boundaries, character, Acacias, 4, DMT, the CSIRO, Murray Cod, Treaty, Dikes, the X-Files, termites, cultured meat, bushrangers, powerlines, markets, tofu, the lucky colour red, seismographs, hedges, highways, trees in autumn, networks+flows, realism vs idealism, orderly frames, the southern cross, indigenous micronations, methane, Suzhou gardens, saving the planet,

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An Overbearing Sense of the Ecological Apocalypse

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