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John Todd is a pioneer in living systems: http://toddecological.com/ 

Ah, I’m with you now… Sorry, a bit slow on the up take… my Floyd knowledge is a bit limited but I did enjoy the video…
 

 
It’s a good thing he didn’t try and use a hatchet. It would have taken him a lot longer…

my comment was an obscure Pink Floyd tune from long ago……………
 

Jones and Jones was another one.

Plus a broad leaf killer works on turf because it kills weeds and not the grass. If you put broad leaf killer on a thyme lawn you’d have a very dead lawn…

<—– Scratching head… Whiskey Tango Foxtrot are you guys talking about…?

Be careful with that ax Eugene!!!

haha…well I never knew Roland was such a common name! haha. They generally visit the big firms over in Seattle…EDAW (are they still there?), The Berger Partnership, The Portico Group, SiteWorkshop…that is all I can remember right now. My husband actually walked into 18 firms in Seattle a couple of years ago with a small portfolio on…[Read more]

What firms do they generally visit?
I am at U of I getting my masters, but it couldn’t have been my wife, since I’m not married.

For anyone who wishes they could have seen this, take a look at the panelists for one of the general sessions at the ASLA convention: http://www.asla.org/2011meeting/EdGeneral.html
Mark, I don’t think landscape urbanism and conservation subdivisions are the same thing. Randall Arendt came to U of Idaho a few months ago and gave a talk and a…[Read more]

Thanks everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcrdo4xMKD4
i’ll try this 
 
there’s the link – that one works, I think..worth a watch, in my opinion..previous link did  not work..

I don’t know a lot about “landscape urbanism”, but it sounds like Arendt’s “conservation planning”.   Are there substantive differences?

You have to give the one guy credit for repeatedly attempting to stop the axe wielding mad-man, even going as far as getting physical with him. I think I’d stay clear of someone with an axe… even if he was murdering a Ginko.
What a fool! Who does that? Oh, wait, yeah…

This highlights the labor problems facing contractors. Between taking 53 whacks to drop the tree and the union steward interrupting the laborer several times because he was working too fast and raising expectations, the cost of doing business is out of control.
On the bright side: At no time did this laborer stop to either receive or send a text…[Read more]

Thanks for post, Jason!

Paris:
Citroen is an oft cited precedent, Vaux le Vicomte is worth half a day is you can spare it, Promenade Planteé a precedent for the High Line in NYC, La Defense is interesting in its scale (big), the plaza in front of the Pompidou is worth looking at (slope and it’s use b/c of the slope).
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont & Parc de la Villette (rea…[Read more]

This seems obscenely shallow…  
I would have liked to have read an article articulating the challenges Duany and Waldheim were responding to when they began taking their positions regarding urbanism (Duany I believe is responding to post-WWII suburban sprawl and Waldheim to the urban areas lacking consideration of pre-existing ecological…[Read more]

I agree with the above, I did the same wherever I visited.  Started with alumni that I knew or critics that came through the school, some firms I cold called (email with CV, cover letter explaining why I thought their firm was interesting, and a short work sample), firms I was most interested in I sent hardcopies.  During the worst months of the r…[Read more]

Let’s add a few of Walter Hood’s work in Oakland as contemporary examples.
 
I agree with Olmsted and Hood on the need for public landscapes to embody a democratic society, though I must say there were (probably still are) some parks in Tokyo where some residents have decided to stake out their turf and fight to retain their claim which is a tad…[Read more]