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Guys, I’ve been out of school and work for 10 years (kids). I’ve got tons of regurgitated and new study material and have been to last years preps. My problem is that the lare is a moving target and I am trying to do this with dwindling funds. I am studying A now and everywhere I look, new issues pop up that require hundreds of dollars to gain…[Read more]

How was your visit? What did you see? I live in Vienna, but was fully booked over the weekend. Otherwise I could have given you a tour of some places.

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More detail about my job situation, which is in SC: I was living at the coast and working in a planning dept. 4 years ago, and I went back to grad school to get my MLA (a dream of mine for about 15 years now). I graduated in May of last year. During the preceding months I had spoken to several firms that were very positive towards me and I was…[Read more]

Hello?! Any of Roberto Burle Marx’s gardens (Brazil) or Luis Barragan’s landscapes (Mexico). I would particularly love to see Marx’s personal gardens – just amazing texture color and modern sensibilites.

Kendall, I heard that info on water use directly from green building consultant Chris Klehm, so I took it as gospel. It has occurred to me that a huge amount of fuel could be saved if all garbage hauled by trucks was dry, even if you are just drying things out before they’re hauled off. We must be trucking millions of gallons of water to landfills…[Read more]

Richard,
Thanks – that helps. I have the book, but didn’t quite know where to start.
Most of my family is around Alexandria, LA. and it will be nice to have my license there. If you can lay your hands on the plant list that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again,
Rob

“As I have traveled I think I have learned more as a designer from the cultures than I have from the physical examples of gardens, parks and plazas.” That’s interesting, could you expand on that? I’m writing a proposal to travel to Latin America and study landscape…

Which places in Chile and Colombia stood out to you?

(and where are you in…[Read more]

Something I’d like to mention:

A silver lining on this economic cloud is that landscape architects are working in related professions right now – I am working in a planning department, for example. I am working on a greenways and connectivity master plan for my city, which is great for them because they can’t afford one outside of office now; and…[Read more]

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Rob, I saw your post earlier but didn’t have any current information as I took the exam back in the 80’s. However at the annual ASLA state convention today I saw Dr. Neil Odenwald who administers the plant section of the exam. Dr. Odenwald wrote the textbook used in the plant materials course and is the former head of the Landscape Department at…[Read more]

I was actually pretty impressed with Vizterra from what I have seen and used of it. I likely the precision and flexibility that it offered. The 2D plan view mode was much more flexible than many of the other 3D packages I have looked at before. I did not especially think that it had a video game feel although I can understand how others might feel…[Read more]

The PPI books worked for me.

Yes… however very little land planning or LA work. Mostly drafting or civil engineering work… grading, paving plans, etc. Located in North Dakota.

when you took section a, did it require construction information and if so, what did you use to study that?

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