Baltimore’s Jones Falls
No waterway has been more essential to the development of Baltimore than the Jones Falls. And yet... View more
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Baltimore’s Jones Falls a week ago
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Daylighting Rivers: Hidden Climate Adaptation | CityChangers.org
For decades, we've been building over rivers. Now we understand their benefits. Here's how & why cities are daylighting urban waterways.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls 3 weeks agoBaltimore folks, please join us at the Peale Museum tomorrow for an event kicking off an exciting new collaborative project that I’ve been developing together with @Lee of MICA and @brucewillen of Ghost Rivers, called Jones Falls 2076.
“The lower Jones Falls has been buried below I-83 for over 50 years, overlooked and mistreated. With the…
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JF(x): Imagining the River Beyond the Freeway
Join us to imagine new futures for the Jones Falls at this collaborative workshop.
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Baltimore’s Jones Falls 3 months ago“In Seoul, the restored waterway has been a triumph. It doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon…
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‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls 7 months agoUrban environments channel all kinds of spiritual convictions, especially running water. Like the Ganesha I stumbled across in the Stony Run here in Baltimore this week…
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Baltimore’s Jones Falls 8 months agoGood to walk a stretch of the JF this week with visual artist and philosopher @jordan as we scope out a speculative studio course we’re teaching together this fall called “The Future of Here.” Reminders everywhere of the nonhuman inhabitants of this urban space, like the injured deer that came to rest beside the water here some time ago.
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Baltimore’s Jones Falls a year agoRe-posting this to this group in particular, in case any of you don’t have notifications on the main Timeline. Hope to see you tomorrow!
Artist Talk at MICA: Bruce Willen
Thursday, March 28, 6-7pm, Main Building Room 110, 1300 W Mt. Royal Avenue
Bruce Willen, creator of Ghost Rivers, is giving a talk tomorrow night at MICA. Open to the Public!…
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Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.
Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls a year ago
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Restoration of Baltimore’s Stony Run is failing again, residents and scientists say | Baltimore Brew
After millions of dollars spent on re-channeling the stream to slow runoff, critics say a new approach is needed.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls a year agoOn a day like today, when the rainwater running everywhere is a reminder that we are always part of some watershed, I’m grateful that work like the Ghost Rivers project by @brucewillen exists to remind us in other times of our buried and neglected urban streams. The public launch in Remington a couple of months ago was amazing to…
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Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.
Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls a year ago
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Moore wants to clean up rivers and creeks. Here’s what it will take.
What Maryland will find as it shifts the focus of Chesapeake Bay cleanup to rivers and creeks are grassroots groups already doing the work of restoration. Sometimes they’ve had success and sometimes setbacks. But they understand what the state will … Continue reading
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Baltimore’s Jones Falls a year ago
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Tree cover declines as pavement spreads across Chesapeake watershed
Despite long-running, wide-ranging efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay, high-resolution aerial survey data show that an area larger than the District of Columbia is being covered by pavement and buildings every five years.
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