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What’s the meaning of Land8, as to the Land and 8 being put together as such?

Scott, what are you smoking? Is the imagination going?

LAND AID ??
Help Mother Earth and us all

Fun. I have really enjoyed playing disc. We played a lot in college, way cheaper than actual golf and less to get frustrated with, unless  you throw a $20 disc into the Red River in Fargo. Not cool. I even had a period playing with my kids being little, willing to stay in stroller was the key. When they got older it was hard to keep them into the…[Read more]

There’s an app for that! http://bedbugregistry.com/metro/nyc/

Watch out for bedbugs? It used to be fleas, when I lived there..Now I think it is bedbugs, but Henry would know better!n

I do agree about the programmatic – the concept of “free play” in the imagination playground is rather sad when the designer/provider is controlling the pieces to be played with (and time and context).  My guess us that in the dense neighborhoods this is somewhat fitting (for better or for worse) and the passive natural area is provided by…[Read more]

I think the point of this concept being too ‘programmatic’ for a playground is also being missed.  Lets assume we can judge in the concept phase – sometimes you have to, right? I see in this design  a ‘play-ground’ that is dictating it’s use.  I would like a  more passive, natural area, to let the kids brains cool off and wander, for once, loo…[Read more]

I did not mean “conversely” re: polio. That was an  incorrect use of word  due to brain entanglement. I mean more like, did ya hear this one about germ exposure and lack thereof… FDR got polio because of cleaner water..

Really, Rob? I agree, I won’t criticize any more until I have used one, but the use of plastic, plastic grass, plastic ball rooms at McDonalds – it just grosses me out. That is not to say I object to plastic grass, or even plastic (Martha Stewart) in the right place.(please, can we use plastic for ornamental plantings on the highway, instead or…[Read more]

This concern about germs surprises me. For one thing, more and more research is suggesting that our germ-phobia is making for more sickly children not healthier ones. Second, how many kindergartens and play groups sterilize all the toys and surfaces daily? This is a red herring.
The park was designed by a landscape architect.
It is simply a…[Read more]

Hm.Oh, well, not where I live.  Which is the land where all the children are below average.  But I work for a huge gov. organization, and we have to jump through hoops and end up spending lots and lots of taxpayer money on intricate in-house designs to avoid the single product spec problem.
But still, as a parent, this idea of a playground base…[Read more]

Bizarro world? Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit dropping acid. But I digress.
The vast majority of play structures I see are privately owned and operated, although we do have some decent publicly owned parks here in Flyover Nation. The play structures, for the most part, all look the same, much like the sterile breeding box neighborhoods…[Read more]

ok, you got me, Trace. I have no clue how or even if they sterilize the foam pieces.

Also, dear Calico, most spec processes make it very hard, in fact illegal, to make a design that requires the use of one product.
Do I need to say that again? You cannot, especially for government, write specs that require the use of a single manufacturer. and the private contractor should not want to..
As I said, Calico, my world is not yours!…[Read more]

?? I stand by my contention that -farm out the design? I have never seen it happen. The opposite,  dear,IMHO. LA are so f-ing egotistical, so confident and competitive. No, buddy, there is another reason. I challenge you to find some fact to buttress your case – and by that I mean a history time line – I distinctly remember when cedar modular p…[Read more]

but a tree or a swing is not the same as a piece of Styrofoam. These guys live outside. Styrofoam, or whatever, is this weird inert thing..OK, how do you think they clean these giant  pieces of nanoplastic. Do we know?

Aren’t all playgrounds dirt and disease attractors? Who sterilizes the chains you hold onto on swings?

I can’t say much about the LA intern life since I worked as an intern at NYCDOT, but remember to bundle up before you head up north! NYC can be oppressively cold in the wintertime. I also bought an older version of a NYC NFT guide which I remembered absolutely loving, but this was before I purchased a smartphone. I’d also recommend getting a…[Read more]

Not necessarily lazy and thoughtless and inopportunistic, although that describes a few LA firms in the greater Denver area that relied heavily on national production builder clients to exist and thought the gravy train would go forever. It’s simply much more profitable for said LA firms to farm the playground design out to somebody else in…[Read more]