Brazilian Grota: testing the limits of landscape architecture

[this piece has been published by the Harvard Urban Review and by Topos Magazine]

“Maybe it overshot the runway. As I walked the narrow cobblestone street of this low-lying village in northeastern Brazil, the glint of a glass windshield caught my eye, revealing a decrepit tangle of cockpit, wings, and propellers perched on an overgrown bluff above the community’s rooftops. Comunidade Poço Azul is a pocket community of about 500 people within the metropolis of Maceió, Brazil, which approaches a million.”

Queens is the largest of New York City's five boroughs by area. Photo: Greg Keelen / unsplash [via topos]