While recently reading Inhaling 9/11, I realized that there are only a small number (less than twelve) blogs that manage to stay consistently up-to-date with. When things get busy with school/research/life the feed reader tends to get behind, but there are some that I need to keep up with to remain sane. 
[from BldgBlog photostream // photographer unknown // south tower collapse]
BldgBlog is one of these, and I have decided that I should better pay tribute to the writers/communities that I really enjoy–which here means more than putting them on some links page.
Geoff Manaugh has a wonderful imagination and an astute ability to tie current events into possible futures and interesting speculation, as well as larger debates. As with Inhaling 9/11 and the recent studies that the destruction of buildings may be a significant public health risk, he posits a future where we fill our buildings with materials that are beneficial (vitamins & minerals we can breath in). This relates back to the topic of designing buildings that degrade gracefully, so that they will be beautiful ruins, an idea mentioned back in 2005 in a post called Urban Fossil Value.
So I now compile below a few of my favorite recent posts (this is list is by no means comprehensive) as we all patiently wait for the BldgBlog Book
- Derinkiyu, or: The Allure of the Underground City
- The Undiscovered Bedrooms of Manhattan
- An Island for Destroyed Cities
- Landscape Futures
- The Botanical Arctic Ark-Archive (as those of you close to me know, a topic very near to my heart)
- Invent-A-Micronation Contest Results