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Get the best Google or Bing (or Apple?) maps aerial view of a forest canopy you can find, open it in Photoshop, and clone stamp it into a simple plan view tree symbol. In lieu of a pilfered forest canopy swatch, you could use a picture of random foliage or something else green(?) and mottled, then scale the texture appropriately. It will take a…[Read more]

Here are a pair of links:
ImageCELS
Dosch
I had a few others but am drawing a blank off the top of my head… I’ll get back with more if I can.

Jeeezz, so that was my problem all along…

Ok, I can see what you are saying, but I guess that there is a misunderstanding.
Technically, in European English legal speak”regulation” of a profession is simply the set of rules and laws that govern attaining a certain qualification, acquiring some experience in a structured environment and then being able to practice with legal guarantees ie:…[Read more]

I sat in a hearing room as part of the civil engineer’s staff with a group of developers and attorneys prior to a hearing where no one was aware that I was an LA. One attorney suggested that an LA should be brought in on the project. That set off a negative clamoring by the developers who did not want “someone turning the project into a “bunny…[Read more]

… and we can do so while being good stewards of the environment.

Registration, in my opinion, should be designed to meet a set of criteria that is valued in the market place so that those looking for people who are identified to meet such a standard can be confident that a registered (licensed, certified, or whatever you want to call it) LA meets that standard.
 
If there is to be a new standard to be made, it…[Read more]

As I said, you have a problem.
I told you to shut up because your are calling me a racist.
I will say again, shut up and get working, your country is bankrupt.
As far as I am concerned, there is nothing to defend.
There is either a law that regulates Landscape Architecture as a profession in Portugal or there is not. All the Portuguese Landscape…[Read more]

Can you please copy my racist comments here, so I can see them?
Maybe you haven’t noticed but my surname, Carballo, is the Galician spelling of Carvalho.
My father’s ancestors come from Camba, north of the Portuguese border and they themselves haul from Portugal.
How can I be racist, when I have a considerable amount in Portuguese in me, is beyond…[Read more]

How would you rewrite it?
Landscape Architecture is not regulated, and is therefore outside the professional market.
Architecture and Engineering are regulated and enjoy all the advantages of free market.
Why professional regulation is incompatible with a free market in the light of these events?

I think that you have a problem.

I think that LA can contribute to the “free market” just like any other profession. The companies and individuals in the LA profession have to look at what needs there are in the current economy and find a way to be valued by the people with those needs. You supply to an existing demand in a free market.
 
Coming up with new regulations and r…[Read more]

I would say that you have a pretty good deal in the US, compared to other countries, as far as Landscape Architecture is concerned.And yes, FLO made a big difference.
But just last week I read and article in LAM slagging him and saying that he was “holding down the profession”. A bad sign of things to come.
I will be very surprised to find out…[Read more]

There must be a problem with communication that I am not quite understanding here.
Firstly, I am sure that you have saved any number of laws in your hard drive. Fantastic. Quite simply.
The problem is that nobody else seems to have those laws that you have and we would be delighted to have a reference, a number, a date, so we can all find out…[Read more]

But you cannot tell me what law specifically protects Landscape Architecture?
Basically, Portugal rules and Europe is shit, in your opinion. That’s about it.
I am sorry but I am responsible for your inferiority complex.
European Directives are binding, for your information.
Stop making stuff up, please.

Could you please pass me the reference in Portuguese so I can please check the legal reference?
I gave you the links to Laws that do not regulate professions, as far as I can tell.
Can I please know what are you talking about? This article does not imply that Landscape Architecture is regulated.
“Regulation” is a clearly defined legal figure in…[Read more]

oh i see how you are. you “put in effort.”

You can read some more information about the estate of your profession here:
http://arquitecturapaisagista.blogspot.com.es/
http://www.apap.pt/pages/arquitectura/legislacao/?scrh=606
If you find the law that regulates Landscape Architecture in Portugal, do let me know.

I didn’t know about any of that, Gabino. I suppose we have it (relatively) good here in the US, mainly because of Olmsted’s name power. I wonder if the ASLA could lend their support in some way. I once got them to join a group calling for presidential candidates to debate science issues, so I know someone in the organization must be paying attention.

Landscape Architecture is not regulated in Portugal.
If it is, I would like to see the law regulating it. Can you post the specific law please?
You can understand Spanish if you learn Portuguese because the Spanish phonetics are simpler and harder and grammar is also slightly simpler.
If you speak Spanish you will find difficult understanding…[Read more]