FASLANYC
FASLANYC works as a landscape architect for an urban design firm in New York City. He also writes the landscape criticism blog faslanyc and contributes to other design journals with features focusing on urban projects in South America.
http://www.faslanyc.blogspot.com
Canal Nest Colony

FASLANYC chronicles the progression, from design experiment to multi-disciplinary operation, of a small group effort to celebrate and activate the ecology of the Gowanus Canal.

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Floyd Bennett Field: Recreation in the Wasteland

FASLANYC visits Floyd Bennett Field and finds an example of park use that references the site’s unique history and demonstrates the changing nature of recreation.

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On Criticism 5: Criticism as Feedback Loop

Landscape/architectural criticism today is often conservative and superficial. I attribute this to two main causes; the modern insecurity of the professions, and the mystification of the academic aspect of landscape/architecture and their concomitant critics and apologists.

The first issue, the …

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