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This site is an archive of the Landscape + Urbanism blog – which was active from 2007 through 2019. All of the images are removed, and many of the links are no longer working – and the site has not been maintained for years, but i wanted to maintain access to text for my own…

How appropriate to finish on a post from Frederick Law Olmsted – a man who constantly re-invented himself while ‘inventing’ the profession of landscape architecture.  So in that spirit of re-invention – my time and focus has shifted to my growing business, my studies, and other pursuits both professional and personal. Blogging has also changed…

Today we hit 100,000 visitors (and an additional 250,000 page views). I feel honored to have achieved this within the confines of a short year… Now, with a new laptop (although a fried and potentially unrecoverable old one), and a fresh backlog of posts from my newly restored RSS feeds – I’m ready for some…

The wonders of technology never cease… the ability to access information, share knowledge, and communicate ideas has evolved manifold, in the 12 years I’ve been practicing. It also continues to do so, as my new G1 Phone probably has the combined computing power of the first 4 computers I owned combined. One thing is for…

Happy weekend. Wow – it’s happened so fast. 200 posts strong – and pretty much on-goal for 2008. There have been some lulls, some work-related slow periods, and some just plain I don’t want to write anything periods – which have caused me to re-think and allowed Landscape+Urbanism to do well nonetheless. Some would argue…

Good news for all those purveyors of Landscape Architecture.Bad news for those who like having time to blog… 🙂 Landscape architects staying busyPOSTED: 03:20 PM PDT Monday, May 19, 2008BY SAM BENNETT From the Oregon DJC: “A majority of landscape architects, nationally, remained busy in the first quarter of this year. In the latest quarterly…

The Pacific Northwest has no shortage of eco-saboteurs in the midst, doing innocuous pranks that make us aware of some outstanding issues or going further and relying on major destruction to get their point across. This hit home recently with the torching of McMansions in a new Woodinville, Washington rural cluster development (RCD). I’m a…

More case-study research for Net-Zero development, offering some modest examples to augment some previous developments. For starters, via Jetson Green is the High Street Philadelphia project is being developed by home(scale) in a former brownfield zone in downtown Philly. The most urbanized version, this was originally shown as a very vegetated facade in early renderings…

There is a significant wealth of historic works of landscape architecture around the world. While the profession has a mere 150 years of ‘official’ standing, and based on recent Occupational Employment Statistics survey results, it is well on the rise (growth of 59% in employees). What this means, at least by extrapolation, is that more…

A wide range of ‘progressive architecture’ awards were recently announced on ArchitectOnline going to a wide range of winners. The process and product of what defines ‘progressive’ is a constantly shifting target, due to new jurors as well as new architectural directions. From the article: “Last year’s jury, for instance, favored projects with a sense…