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Hey, even Joe Scarborough has conceded that he doesn’t expect Rmoney to win, saying he is a man with a lot of ambition and some gret accomplishments, but not what it takes to be president.  Yet you can still count on TP office-holders in smaller arenas to push for reduced government programs.  Maybe they’ll mount the armed insurrection that so…[Read more]

This is a great set. I have been using them since R13. I have a bunch of others on CD-ROM but I find the Unilock set to be pretty comprehensive.

Added to that short list: 

• EPA Sustainable Communities Grants 

http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/grants.html

• Federal DOT Tiger Grants 

http://www.dot.gov/tiger/

• Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) 

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_plann…

• Transportation Equity Act -21…

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Andrew:

Yes, that memorable quote is as powerful and observant now as it was for the first Clinton campaign in 1992. Whichever party does not emphasize the most obvious and current concern of the American electorate will be the “stupid” party this time around. 

My take on your comment about the President’s comment (“you don’t want to go back”)…[Read more]

Lots of help on installing .pat files and more can be found in the forums at http://www.cadtutor.net/
 

Great looking content, I got a little into it, excited to get deeper!

http://www.unilock.com/default/downloads

It says it is discontinued, but there is a link. There are lots of patterns. Some don’t show up in the preview window due to scaling.

These are neither on anyone’s list of priorities to fix or nix on either ticket, nor what keeps many people from sleeoing at night.
 
As James Carville said twenty years ago when there was a very mild recession  “it’s the economy …”

Either accept that everyting is great,  and “the new normal” is a good thing, or that things are not so good and…[Read more]

Hey!   should I have included a sarcasm notation in that last response ?
I certainly don’t mind contributing opinion; it’s what I know best.

To take RH’s comment “Not everything is possible with plants” further, are you preparing anything to show the client that this design element is in fact not possible.
Who’s going to get sued when it fails ? 
 

Add to the “gutted and castrated” list:
FEMA
NASA
HUD
Dept. of Education
anything that has to do with non-military R & D
everything which has to do with the “Arts”   
End of tax breaks for any energy source that doesn’t burn or radiate.

Timothy,
You haven’t yet stated (did I miss it?) whether the site is full sun all day or part day and which part, whether it is exposed to noticeable winds, whether the building extends above this floor casting shade. In NYC a rooftop can have any of a wide range of conditions and with the growing parameters already so limited you need to get all…[Read more]

Since I started what appears to have become a fractured and off-track dialogue thus far, here is my “take” more faithful to the original intent of the question, in an attempt to get this topic back to its “roots”…

• Environmental Protection Agency- Gutted and castrated to the point of being inconsequential. 
• Clean Water Act- (enforced by EPA)…

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Hey! Toby: 

Do you see what you can contribute here….opinion of the political genre that has some legitimacy and timeliness to it. That is if dare to “cross that line” of treacherous civil discourse. God forbid, we as individual representatives of our profession, boldly profess our viewpoints about how the ship of state will be steered in the…[Read more]

Just to be clear:  The reason I called out landplanner’s reference to that post was because it was NOT mine.  My hide is plenty thick when it comes to my own posts.
I remember how hard it was to get some pretty basic answers to site design issues when I first encountered the real world, and I just want to make sure no one is too intimidated to u…[Read more]

Yes, thank you Jason! I am thinking of the Gehry design – Eisenhower..! I don’t think I’ve ever seen the FDR in DC you are talking about..Want to try to check that out..
Lets hear it for architects in the Landscape …

We have worked on one international project aiming on the creation of the sustainable liveable urban open spaces with the community involvement…some findings as well as best practices on the link  Methodology Plan for good planning and designing of urban open spaces ..

LP, do see what you started ?  The group on Land8 is not like that on Archinect, and some appear to be too easily offended.
And if anyone thinks my opinionated statement is directed at you, it probably is.  Hey!
 
 

I agree with the overdone “literal” narrative of the DC memorial, which seem to be the way of the memorials built after the abstract Vietnam memorial. Thats also why I said it was too big. There is no one large tree, as you have mentioned as it is placed in the grove of Japanese Cherry Trees along the Tidal Basin. The one huge tree I think you are…[Read more]

you know, Landplanner, I have always found the narrative of the Wash. D.C. design to be it’s weaknes – I know the family sued for years to have the depiction of the youthful FDR removed,  and I think the entire design revolves around one large tree..To me, that is weak. I prefer abstraction.
But this is like a big urinal and skateboarder park,…[Read more]