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I love heavy metal.
 

It think it would be fine if you re-mediated the soils or built raised beds and brought in fresh soil and gave anything your about to eat a good washing before consuming.
 
It would be interesting to grow stuff and have it analyzed in the lab for heavy metals and the like.

I wouldn’t eat any of that stuff, especially grown in NYC. You have no idea what kind of stuff in in the soils, and as far as roof top, what the plants are pulling in from the air. You use plants for soil remediation, so, they are sucking  in all them pollutants, and it has to go somewhere…into the leaves and fruits you eat.
 

Yes, and support the profession in the process.

Urban farming is a rapidly growing area, the WSJ just had a very interesting article on the phenomenom in NYC, where entire rooftops have been converted to urban farms, selling produce to local restaurants, organic and whole foods stores, etc.
Seems the verdict is still out on whether this is commercially viable or not.  Design per se seems to be…[Read more]

I think I have a few beefs and try to not be to florid (no pun intened) in posting this.
1.  My main angst is not planting native wild species but favouring park and garden varieties with increased cost because they have a different colour or upswept branches or whatever.  In the UK the only wild variety of tree planted on steets since Victoria w…[Read more]

get it and live without restrictions….

A license is not a silver bullet that will give you unmeasured wealth, but it gives you more opportunities. I just got licensed last year (7years out of school) so far it has not changed my life much. However I do now have the ability to sign drawings and it allows me do more on my own. So good to have, but I would not stress about getting it…[Read more]

This may or may not be relevant considering the firm you work for but according to ASLA’s latest survey “Being licensed significantly contributed to salary – $77,700 for those holding a license compared to $52,700 without.”
http://www.asla.org/land/LandArticle.aspx?id=30026
Also, I’m currently working towards getting my license just to have o…[Read more]

One need only look to ‘natural’ habitat for ‘inspiration’ and guidance.Way more informative than any book!

Great blog post…thanks for the info!

I believe this is called community gardening.
Contact Capital District Community Gardens in Troy, Ny.  They are the oldest organization of its kind in the United States.  they manage over 70 garden sites throughout the Capital District with hundreds of gardeners.  My wife is a garden organizer there.
Not really the purview of a Landscape Ar…[Read more]

Tipton,
Hi my name is Will Tietje. I recently graduated from LSU spending my last year doing a capstone project on a very very similar project, I called it “Viable agricultural solutions” but it’s pretty much the same thing your looking at. I would definitely be interested in talking more with you about the subject, first question being where do…[Read more]

Thanks Henry! This was very helpful. I found that our state dept. of labor has a payday law that expressly prohibits witholding wages from a paycheck, unless it’s court-ordered (like child support), state or federally required (like taxes), or is expressly agreed to in writing with a document signed by the employee. Since my situation falls…[Read more]

Having desinged a number of water theme parks myself, the posters are correct that there is a rather large team of people who design the park, as they are enormously complex. An LA, architect, or even specialized park planner may lay out the design. I know one large company who really left it to the park manager to lay the placement out in…[Read more]

Thank you all for your encouragement…it’s needed! Despite their verbal agreement to my offer to be voluntarily laid off, apparently my former employer is now changing their tune and saying that i resigned. They gave me a formal letter with my last paycheck that said ‘we accept your resignation’ yadda yadda yadda. Which I’m guessing would…[Read more]

Thanks all for the suggestions. Coincidentally, I currently work at a nursery and find local wholesale catalogs to be very helpful, though some are more informative than others. I will check out Still and Armitage for sure. Too bad so few include more than a couple hundred color plates.

For my thesis I did a theme park. It was fun. In reality though Architects also have their hands in these projects. Another thing is that LA’s are not at all qualified to design the rides as you may know. I found myself using rides from specialty companies templates and treating the rides themselves as any other design element, like a tree,…[Read more]