"There's a bit of a catch-22 there. If you don't get into that client stream how can you show anything substantially different? Let's say you create a real improvement for the money (compared to what they had to begin with). This might…"
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100 lessons learned from studying landscape architecture
Started this discussion. Last reply by Joe Clancy Sep 6, 2012. 6 Replies 2 Likes
Add some of your own or replace points (I hope diet soda will substitute for the coffee):…Continue
History of LA degrees in the southeast
Started this discussion. Last reply by Alan Ray, RLA Jul 12, 2012. 6 Replies 0 Likes
I have not been able to find this anywhere on the web or I wouldn't annoy the forum with it, but it has come up in discussions with others in my generation and we are rusty or don't know because we…Continue
Underground Park
Started this discussion. Last reply by Andrew Spiering May 2, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Not that it would be likely anywhere else, but this was interesting:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17914500Continue
Everything you ever wanted to know about landscaping
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chupacabra Apr 15, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes
I just ran across this today. I think it's by the Air Force although I don't know why they made it (about 450 pages). Free to all and of some possible use if you teach or want to refer a client to a…Continue
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Leslie B Wagle replied to Greg Byrer's discussion 'Design Fee Shock'"I have to agree; although no two properties are alike, in broad terms fees have stalled for decades, possibly because of this misleading influence just mentioned. Or possibly because people think they can just "flip through" magazines or…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Barbara Brem's discussion 'Plagiarism in a CE course'"The chance that they looked at other sources and incorporated the accumulated material isn't so much a deal breaker but attempting to pass off word for word is pretty amazing. Couldn't they find anything a little more obscure that…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"I liked the weird climbing domes of what seemed like natural branch forms. I suppose they're not rocket science to construct, but what about the dreaded "liabilities" as they age etc.?
Meanwhile here is a page on some fascinating…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Andres F. Pineda's discussion 'Whale, Medium or Small Fish - When you don't know how hungry you will become in the future.'"I've also worked in a planning department and in teaching also, but if I think back and confine my answer to what I saw working in 2 very small LA firms and 2 medium sized architecture firms, along with being a consultant to a third in that…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"I just wanted to add another link to a nice big whopper of a document I discovered on this topic:
http://naturalplay.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/naturalplay_infopacket_small.pdf"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Will Kern's discussion 'Therapeutic Garden Ideas'"There is a central blog type site here
http://www.healinglandscapes.org/gardens/
But I have been confused myself on how the terms "healing,""meditation," and "therapeutic" are used. ASLA seems to imply that the latter…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"Another one:
http://dogwoodcanyon.audubon.org"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"I have a bit of "mixed reaction" to the museum approach that sort of expands on older roles but still seems a bit contrived, like this first one (although during a lot of the year in that climate, to keep up traffic it might be…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Andrew Boyd's discussion 'Get me excited about an MLA!'"I had to blink when I read Coordinates "you can easily get massive perks into your account in no time." Maybe you can CONTRIBUTE on large-scale projects if you land a position within a large firm. What exactly most impacts the environment…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"There are also places like
http://beholdnature.org/ilcn.php and
http://www.stratfordecologicalcenter.org/docs/global/SEC%20strategic%20plan-%202012-e.pdf"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"Yes, I agree that "free range" children would be the ideal, like how my husband grew up in a rural area and still tells about how he wandered far afield among the woods and fields and streams etc. but I'm afraid even in rural areas,…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Jeffrey Lindstrom's discussion 'Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children'"NC State U has done a lot of work on this under a special initiative.
One of their pages: http://naturalearning.org/content/projects"
Leslie B Wagle replied to MG's discussion 'Construction document resources for LA on CAD'"You can also listen to "Forgiving Landscape Details & Detailing for Ease of Construction" right here in the webinars under the events tab at Land8, which was offered in January. Then you might look into buying that author's…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to mike's discussion 'I'm thinking of becoming a Landscape Architect. Any advice?'"David, I know this is a bit late but something popped into my mind about a post from a person who was considering a change from nursing, and it took me awhile to find that it was a reference to an outside person in this post. Your advice about…"
Leslie B Wagle replied to Rex Cayabyab's discussion 'Fresh graduate stuck and need advice'"Well there are ads out there but they a) seem to be asking for people who can walk on water and/or b) will probably get piles of resumes; however keep it up and something will eventually happen.
In the meantime, since you didn't ask only for…"
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- At 1:09pm on July 17, 2011,
Chris Brown said… HI, Leslie
My name is Chris Brown and I am a student currently enrolled in the young scholars program at the University of Maryland and in was wondering if you would be interested in answering two to three short questions for me about your experiences in landscape architecture. I’m very interested in this profession and I would love to hear about it personally from you. Thanks so much for your time and consideration and I can’t wait to hear from you!! Sincerely, Chris Brown
- At 6:27am on April 2, 2011,
Andrew Garulay, RLA said… You just took a 65 post chaotic discussion and made it all make sense in an understandable way in a single post. I wish I could write that well because I meant exactly what you are saying, but no matter what I do, it just does not come off that way.
... I see this is not the first time you impressed me.
- At 6:44pm on August 21, 2010, Andrew Garulay, RLA said…
- Leslie,
Your post on the state of the profession described exactly what I see and have seen. It is interesting to hear the same assessment from someone sitting on the other side of the table (regulator vs. consultant).
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Jonathan Corbett commented on Lucy Wang's blog post 'Quarry Garden 矿坑花园 | Shanghai, China'"From the center of the city at People's Square it takes about 60-70 min to get to the gardens which is located near the end of Line 9. The gardens regularly run a free shuttle bus back and forth to the subway stop which helps out since…"
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It is said that we "Germans" work only 35 h/w and are still able to perform.
What a joke! The 35 are wrong but the rest is correct.
I'm over 40 years in business and hardly ever had worked less than 40 h/w. Record were 70+ when…"
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