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Refreshing to see an article on reality. Will we change the culture?

Daniel and Jordan (above):
Clearly I was the hypocritical heretic here and for that I offer my humble apology with a 75%/25% split. The 75% goes out to Jordan for my incendiary closing, low-brow and blow “tea” related remark. That was highly uncalled for and Daniel your also right. It was not very civil and respectful.
The remaining 25% is an…[Read more]

Why would anyone want to change the status quo?  …. let alone go back to the way things used to be?

Haha… way to push an “open discussion” about an eternally sensitive subject then rudely pounce on the first person who has a differing viewpoint than yourself. 

How has the economic stability and/or job growth for our profession been in the last 4 years under Obama?  Not great it seems.  How will it change under a Romney/Ryan ticket?  Who kno…[Read more]

WOW. Landplanner that was an extremely rude response. Please respond with respect if you are going to be talking politics on a professionally centered discussion board.
Oh you did say respect before you started the name calling.

Jordan:

I respect your viewpoint here, but the countervailing arguments, supported by a feedbag of facts big enough to stuff the largest GOP elephant you can find nearby, are that tax cuts are next to ineffectual in job-creation and the general invigoration of  whatever national economy they have been tried and repeatedly failed in, especially…[Read more]

Let me start with I am neither currently employed or left to support a family.
It’s a well-written blog post but personally I find nothing new there.  His thoughts align much with my own, though our experiences have been a little different.  I’m not sure anyone makes it through an LA program and into the job market without hearing about long h…[Read more]

Remember that the field of Landscape Architecture also provides services to private developers. If the R/R ticket cuts taxes to spur development that would also benefit the field. We are not all working on public projects.
Politics are really funny on Land8. 

That remark made me lose all respect for Romney. Wasn’t he a moderate at one point?
But the fact that they are willing to accept the whole Agenda 21 nonsense means that their disregard for the idea of sustainability goes way beyond just denying climate change. They are now against smart growth, bike lanes and pretty much anything that could be…[Read more]

right, Roland – Romney getting a laugh out of the line, “Obama wanted to stop the rise of the oceans,” almost made me physically ill. Who are these people?

Plus, this: http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/agenda-21-update-republican-convention-approves-anti-agenda-21-stand.html

If you want political argument, there are TONs of web sites – Slate gets pretty lively, Salon, you can comment on the NYT web site – and on and on..And man, does it get low pretty quick.
I like to comment on politics, but also do not think this is the right site for it.
but as for an opinion, perhaps walled ‘Womens Gardens’ will become popular if…[Read more]

I see less federal grant money for parks, green infrastructure projects, urban renewal, and preservation/conservation in general. Along the same lines; laws mandating wetland mitigation, brown field remediation, mine reclamation, etc… would probably be far friendlier to big business (read: ineffectual or non-existent), resulting in fewer such…[Read more]

Thanks Tosh,
Have you used this product?  

I think I agree with toby on the ‘low information’ thing, but I’m really excited to see this topic here 😉 Tired of having to go to archinect for political-architectural discourse.

This seems to work – more of a single mat-surface but the look of gravel…
http://celltekdirect.com/glok.html

Thanks bp.  I will check it out.  

Does anyone have other suggestions? If not in SG or HKG, where is a recommendable place to work in Asia?

My opinion is that this is not the place for this subject. 
That said…this country has the potential to suffer greatly because ‘low information’ and the far worse ‘information averse’ voters have been convinced to vote against their own interest. 
http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=tp120830rhetoric_reality_and
 

Thank you for your recommendations!