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(Or “A Female Figure with Large Breasts, Three Eyes, Deformed Ears and Four Hands Standing in a Landscape,” from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585. Source.)

It's been a while since we posted a list of recently discovered blogs. Despite the lamentations of my colleagues about the demise of both the quality and quantity of blogs on the built environment, for every one that goes dimmer with each passing week without a post, there's a handful that crops up, most of which are worth keeping tabs on.

Of course, these newer blogs aren't going to be any less ephemeral. In fact, those started by thesis students and studios will most likely expire with the end of term, but at least a record of their investigations exists for anyone to use for whatever purpose. Because what if before they published the book, Venturi and Scott Brown's Las Vegas studio had maintained a blog in which students and instructors recorded all their initial observations, posted their pre-collaged photos, lecture podcasts and unedited videos using Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube, and the Web 2.0 crowd participated wiki-like, unencumbered by notions of proprietary and editorial control? It would have been interesting at the very least.

Here, meanwhile, is the list. The bloggers responsible for these blogs may or may not be as described above, but they all possess fertile minds and fecund imagination, are consummate observers, have individualized but keen insights into important issues of the day, and are voracious collectors of net flotsam and jetsam.

21st Century Plowshare

Arts and Ecology

christian barnard landscape blog

Edificial

fruitful contradictions

Geometry of Bending

Infrastructurist

Invent Civil

Mockitecture

Pop-up City

there is a lot to say, of this we are sure

Urban Floop

U.S./Mexico Border Wall as Architecture

Vulgare

The following are maintained by the incredibly fortunate three who were awarded The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship.

Re:mote.......Controlled

Soundscrapers

Untested City

For our public blogroll, see our list of RSS feeds [good links] on Bloglines. Which of these you are going to subscribe to (or whether or not you are going to follow even one of them) will be up to you.