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LU Top 8: Recap 2007
While this blog has not been around long enough to warrant a year-end (or month-end) recap, I did spend some time sifting through the list of blogs and assorted sites that I look at regularly, and found some great stuff. While there are good sites that touch on landscape issues, like BLDGBLOG, Pruned and others……
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Landscape Urbanism Bullshit Generator
It’s friday, so for a little humor, I’ve included this gem – The Landscape Urbanism Bullshit Generator, which is a simple interface that comes up with verb-adjective-noun combos using the lingo we’ve all come to love to parse. :: image via Ruderal My favorites for the evening:@ intensify scalar meshworks @ enable interstitial networks @…
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Best Careers 2008
The year starts off with news that we’ve all know for years. US News and World Report issued their Best Careers of 2008, which includes Landscape Architect in the listings. Also included for 2008 from the design world are Urban Planner, and Engineer. While perhaps over-simplifying the profession, here’s Marty Nemko’s description of a typical…
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Cradle to Cradle Development
The Greenbridge Development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is on the docket for Christmas vacation, is of course, a trip to see the first Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) development in the US, created by William McDonough. The website is vague on how this meetings C2C goals, but does give some indication of the overall project goals, which…
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Seeds
This is set up to be my clearinghouse of musings on Landscape Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, and Planning, Design and related subjects. I’m not really planning on this for public consumption, rather an electronic journal of things that interest me, a chance to write more often, and an outlet for thoughts. But if perchance someone happens…