I've noticed that the UK Landscape Architects are under represented, therfore I've written a few a few points below that may be of interest:

I run a small practice which specialised in environmental planning and have noted a few points on recent projects in the UK:

Payground designs: (austrity measures) new playground projects now cut.

I worked on Environmental Impact Assessments for solar farms in the south of England. The…

The Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, DC is pleased to share with you research opportunities for 2012-13.

The Fellowship deadline is November 1, 2011.

http://www.doaks.org/research/info_fellowships.html

Pre-doctoral residencies and post-doctoral research stipends are rolling admission.…

The green landscape of our cities is all too often under threat, falling prey to builders, tight development budgets or lack of maintenance. Join leading landscape architects, writers and specialists as they explore the urban landscapes of the last century.  And, at a time when everyone is talking about sustainable development and green space what can the experts tell us about the challenges of creating urban landscapes in the 21^st century?

The series, programmed to…

Oh, look! a FREE portfolio template! Roundfolio is a free download from Webgraphics.net and I thought it was pretty cool, especially for a one-page (samples of work) portfolio. Last week, I…

Last week, I posted three videos. The video on book design and the one on cover design both discussed typography.…

I am excited that the Employer Interview blog posts (especially last week's) are starting to generate some comments! This is one of the reasons I thought it would be interesting to post them and see how the employers are similar, where they…

Casey Brown is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Clemson University and a Principal Researcher with P-REX an organization embedded within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. He is the 2010/11 recipient of the…

Last week, we discussed a few different ways of ordering the materials you put in your portfolios. But today, I have another employer’s feedback to share with you.

As many of you know, I have been asking colleagues for their perspective.…

Scott Doyon recounts "a valuable lesson for those of us working in the trenches of smart growth and sustainability. So long as we’re talking to each other — and, admittedly, that’s part of the process — all the secret handshakes of wonky language are accepted. Even preferred, sometimes. But that same language presents a formidable barrier to wider interest and wider interest is where movements really take shape."



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