Brian Davis

Professor of landscape architecture at Cornell. Latin America, industrial landscapes, Appalachian

[Luc Cohen @cohenluc]

Tired: “Argentina’s going to the IMF, it’s like 2001 all over again.”

Wired: “You can charge your SUBE card yourself, and in the station? It’s like 2001 has finally arrived.”

[Patrick Nunnally @LandH2OPlaceUMN]

Between the changing conditions on the land (more row crops/tiling) and in the air (heavier rainfall events) every county in Iowa has had a flood event recently https://t.co/MmwZ3K5Hi7

[Nate Millington @nate_millington]

I am excited to note that my article on the infrastructural politics of São Paulo's 2014-2015 water crisis (in @Pol_Geog_Jl) is out: https://t.co/p2AbsFLHmq

[Ashley Carse @acarse]

1) Richard White (Railroaded) on histories of failed and unfinished projects: "we need to think about what did not happen in order to think historically...the past once contained larger possibilities, and part of the historian's job is to make those possibilities visible..."

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

SCAPE’s installation @la_Biennale @USPavilion18 is a call to action to rebuild the wetlands & rich tidal mud flats that serve as critical habitat for marine life & human livelihoods #EcologicalCitizenship https://t.co/8yvk7TnQYT

[Landscape Architecture Foundation @lafoundation]

Thrilled that our New Landscape Declaration book was selected for an Oculus Book Talk at @CenterForArch! On May 14, hear @KateOrff,@ginamariefordLA and Ken Smith discuss what they see as the role of #landarch today. https://t.co/ircJkOndz1

[Ashley Carse @acarse]

@STS_News @DEHEdgerton Not really an answer to this specific question, but something to track along these lines with a cool #maintainers bent is @JOziasReno's new work on the military and waste, like: https://t.co/gqbPdJcEjv

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

T.O.C. of J.B. Jackson’s LANDSCAPE: Magazine of Human Geography. Fall, 1960. Essays include “The Useful and Beautiful Forest” & “Water In the Southwest.” Maybe time to revive with new mission & critical vision.

[Brian Davis @faslanyc]

@jnddavis An important find!

[kofi boone @KBbop]

Very pleased to participate in the newly launched “How to Make a City” podcast! Check out my interview on “How Landscape Design Makes a City” in your iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify library or any of the major podcast platforms.

iTunes: https://t.co/DZW37WhWJ8

I hope you enjoy!

[Brian Davis @faslanyc]

@bmeyer56 @KBbop @lafoundation Nowhere mentioned- causes of diversity lack likely include fundamental Eurocentrism in our accepted histories and theoretical commitments.

[Brian Davis @faslanyc]

@bmeyer56 @KBbop @lafoundation These dynamics intersect. I would guess something like 15% of arch’s would actually like to be la’s

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Sediment Plume off the Louisiana Coast https://t.co/e1aXFUvObv #NASA

[Brian Davis @faslanyc]

@LangeAlexandra Landscape historians

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

“it’s a reminder of all the sediment being shunted off into the lake that could be used to rebuild Louisiana’s coast...” #PublicSediment @scape_studio @DredgeRC https://t.co/sASpKd7vOg

[SCAPE @scape_studio]

New research factors in #subsidence, which will increase the potential reach and damage of flooding in the Bay Area. @genevawirth is quoted in a @KQED response to the study, discussing the role of #PublicSediment in approaching these changes: More here: https://t.co/pdb3g8WFNC.

[Brian Davis @faslanyc]

@LangeAlexandra Is arch really about solutions? It’s even worse than I thought, if so...

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

Climate migration and habitability - challenges of landscape & #urbandesign @jeffgoodell https://t.co/BCRByK8itE

[Paulo Tavares @tavaresxpaulo]

landscape architecture: https://t.co/ZfYSOycq99