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Julian Raxworthy

@jujuraxy

Associate Professor & Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture at University of Canberra. Personal account: opinions, etc are my own.

 Australia
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Joined May 2012
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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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Hey @Qantas: epic fail after epic fail. Lost bags on my way to CPT (never acknowledged), and no working screen in business, no transfer from international to T3. Staff are great: but management? At least still bubbles in the lounge… in plastic! Back to @emirates for me!
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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 youtu.be/mmbIQvS2ZZk via @YouTube
Landform Grading in Grasshopper 1: Platform Cut and Fill

Landform Grading in Grasshopper 1: Platform Cut and Fill

Utilising George Williams' seminal Grading - a Workbook of Manual L...

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Blog post @mitpress about my new book mitpress.mit.edu/blog/imagin…
Imagine if Bricks Were Alive? image

Imagine if Bricks Were Alive? image

While many may not even think of gardens in relation to design, for the profession of landscape architecture, the raking of leaves also seems far away from what designers do: working in offices,...

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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/books/overg…
Overgrown

Overgrown

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." ow.ly/6F3l50jnpn5
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The Case for the Subway nyti.ms/2DVYSWI
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mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/2… – at Cape Town, South Africa
Patch of Bamboo Creates New Legal Thicket for Connecticut City (Published 2017)

Patch of Bamboo Creates New Legal Thicket for Connecticut City (Published 2017)

In a Connecticut city known for showdowns between homeowners and the government, a tiny yard overtaken by bamboo is at the center of a new fight.

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Connecting communities: the gardens that offer more than plants and soil theguardian.com/lifeandstyle… – at South Africa
Connecting communities: the gardens that offer more than plants and soil

Connecting communities: the gardens that offer more than plants and soil

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/australia-ne…
Burn-offs have almost no effect on bushfire risks, Tasmania study finds

Burn-offs have almost no effect on bushfire risks, Tasmania study finds

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/build-a-city… – at Kempton Park, South Africa
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge City - JSTOR Daily

How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge City - JSTOR Daily

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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The Mapping of Massacres newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
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How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago theguardian.com/inequality/2…

How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago

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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Super project by #ChrisFox. Great to see the timber escalators from Wynyard Stn reinvented in this astonishing sculpture. teapawt.net/TransportforNSW/status…
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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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Image from Transport for NSW (@TransportforNSW)
Image from Transport for NSW (@TransportforNSW)
Image from Transport for NSW (@TransportforNSW)
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Sadiq Khan plans network of London water fountains to reduce plastic waste d.gu.com/Q4Ck5m
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citymetric.com/skylines/new-… – at Cape Town, South Africa
Gated communities and privatised privilege | Daily Maverick bit.ly/2jOpvrx – at Cape Town, South Africa
Gated communities and privatised privilege

Gated communities and privatised privilege

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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Plants release up to 30 per cent more CO2 than previously thought, study says via @abcnews
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/architecture/… – at Cape Town, South Africa
grimshaw-designed botanic garden in oman will become the world's largest ecological oasis

grimshaw-designed botanic garden in oman will become the world's largest ecological oasis

arup engineering, grimshaw architects and haley sharpe design have designed the 'oman botanic garden', the largest within the arabian peninsula.

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