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I would ask what is the expected amount of foot traffic? If the traffic is not in an urban setting (your words) and foot traffic can be controlled (im thinking circulation from entry of building to parking area) why not eliminate an overally engineered system entirely. Look into using locally available gravels bounded by naturalistic edging in the…[Read more]

Thanks for the book recommendations!

I’d guess that if you couldn’t find a good description of “progressive urbanism” then there probably isn’t one to be found. It sounds like it could be any urban idea that is deemed progressive. If that’s true, it would have no particular relationship to New Urbanism or any other idea, I suppose. The term and idea of “landscape urbanism” has a much…[Read more]

Humans are innately religious whether they be atheists, Hare Krishnas, or just good ol’ soccer moms – religion is whatever your life centers around and recently we’ve joined in a zealous Jonesing fest to see who can be the most dedicated to the faith of global warming (hereafter referred to as HICCUP – Human-Induced Climate Change is Uncon…[Read more]

Mr. Chirico, I would answer (I’ll stick my neck out!) that it is science!

Don’t cover the flange! they will do FINE with architectural pavers over them! Pines are not great for that, but if they are mature trees (how big are the Pines?) they are worth a lot of money, so try to save them..There are many other biotic systems that are currently livng in those trees, and when you cut them down, you will loose them all,…[Read more]

Take a look at DeepRoot. They have a product called Silva Cell that might do the trick. Although, I am not sure how it works with existing trees. Here’s a link – http://www.deeproot.com/products/silva-cell/silva-cell-overview.html

Would a world-wide summit of design professionals be more effective? Or industry CEO’s? I think it’s a problem with some very complex contributing factors, and needs to be tackled from all angles. Politicians are ineffective because they are the only group trying to do something about it en masse.

Interesting article. I would have to agree with Dr. Hanson, the meetings have to fail. Here’s my free market perspective:

I think most people would agree that the price for energy does not reflect the true cost for our economic and climatic woes. To me, it only seams that the dollar stands as the best way to redirect future climate decisions. We…[Read more]

I appreciate the disclaimer. However, I would like to suggest an addendum to the disclaimer that if we are going to be civil in this discussion, we exclude such horrendous crimes as nazism and slavery. There is in no way a correlation between these crimes against humanity and global climate change other than their connection to government. And to…[Read more]

Various projects. http://www.seanhoelscher.blogspot.com

Thanks very much for the feedback. I will check it out.

Thank you Nanda! Mike, I’m also hoping to take the CA section at the end of the month and have been searching for study materials to no avail, other that Nanda’s post. I agree that the State guide is too vague to offer any meaningful benefit. I have some old multiple choice questions from a UCLA course for the LARE that was thrown in…the…[Read more]

this is free and quite good, seems like it would be adequate – http://www.intellicad.org/

The interface looks just like 2005 autocad, at least it did when I got it last year.