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   Interstitial - situated within but not restricted to or characteristic of a particular organ or tissue —used especially of fibrous tissue; affecting the interstitial tissues of an organ or part

    

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   wasted spaces

   Cities are not static objects, but active arenas marked by continuous energy flows and transformations of which landscapes and buildings and other hard parts are not permanent structures but transitional manifestations.

   Alan Berger

   The evolution of cities. As a species, we like to think that the things we make have a longevity to them. A legacy. Everyone is an archivist. As a society we like to consume and consume. Create, destroy, repeat. For every thing there is a season. And then probably a season again. We love trends. Though some things have stood the test of time, if one thing is certain, everything has a shelf life. Water and salts are slow assassins.

   In nature, in matter that is of the natural world, the rubble of stuffs is the fuel and formula of something else. Rocks and shells become sand, worms become birds, birds become humans bury themselves in massive pyramids forever. Our inventions will out live us.

   Plastic will outlive us all.

   We redesign our cities with every generation and to generate is to make new. Revolution is the spark of civilization. And the most compelling cities are built upon the remainders and ruins of the cities underneath them. The most compelling cities are appropriated. Everyone loves a good conversation.

   How do we express our transient, transitional nature through a transient, transitional expression of permanence. Can such a thing exist?

    
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   metropolitanism… a totally fabricated world within which any number of opposing views could co-exist.

   — Rem Koolhaas, as quoted by Linda Pollak, Constructed Ground: Questions of Scale (page 133)
    
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   constructed ground: a hybrid framework that crosses between architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, to engage the complexity of contemporary urban landscape in a way that exceeds the oppositional system that continues to contain them… this framework invests in the ground itself as a material for design, using landscape as both a structuring element and a medium for rethinking urban conditions, to produce everyday urban spaces that do not exclude nature.

   — Linda Pollak, Constructed Ground: Questions of Scale (page 127)
    

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   landscape video: neither filmic nor artistic, holding an argumentative discourse about site-specific qualities and events that are neither staged nor planed. The video material that is gathered shows samples of a place without cosmetics; its content is, for that matter, extremely raw and potent.

   — Christophe Girot, Vision in Motion: Representing Landscape in Time (page 96)
    

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   species-area relationship. “In a nutshell, the smaller the fragment, the fewer species it contains. As a natural area shrinks, big species go first, because the fragment just contains too few of them for them to continue on as a genetically health population.

   — Rambunctious Garden/pg136
    

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   species-area relationship. “In a nutshell, the smaller the fragment, the fewer species it contains. As a natural area shrinks, big species go first, because the fragment just contains too few of them for them to continue on as a genetically health population.

   — Rambunctious Garden/pg136
    

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   Having said that, what if you switched Simpson’s recordings and played, say, the sound of Madison Avenue along one of the reefs – what new ecosystems might result? Conversely, what if you played the sounds of a reef through speakers down Madison Avenue?

   — BLDGBLOG: Super Reef: In Stereo!
    
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   Migration [as in Assisted Migration] here is used, not in the sense of birds moving south in the winter, but in a paleoecology sense, in which species move around slowly, in geological timescales, often in response to climate shifts.

   — Rambunctious Garden/pg81
    

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    Rewilding- posits that the main factors necessary to keep ecosystems resilient and diverse are the regulation provided by large, top-of-the-food-chain predators; the room for these predators to do their work; and connections between predator ranges so they can meet, mate, and maintain a healthily diverse gene pool.

    — Rambunctious Garden / pg. 60