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Thanks Nick.

I agree with your opinion that don’t rely on the ranking so much. As your advice, I went through faculty’s specialties and some comparisons, however, most of schools have professors who is working on the field that I want to work on in the future. This fact did not help me to decide for final.

Urrrgh =( I should be happy for this…[Read more]

Depends on what the plan is for.  If it is part of a larger database and to be used later to build on or mesh with others, then north arrow convention should definately be used. 
If it is a document of it’s own and is intended for a specific site (and client need) only, then  I agree with Jon–north doesn’t matter, and it’s view-port (niiii…[Read more]

I’m currently also in my first year of MLA program at Vtech, in Alexadnira VA ( the waac) http://www.waac.vt.edu/
 
I love the school up here its small and much more intimate. It serves as a consortium school so there are many students that come here from all over the country and study for a semester or a year.
yes we are mixed in with the…[Read more]

Hi Thomas,
I appreciate your feedback – thanks 🙂 I will be narrowing the focus once I get the ball rolling and have scoped the literature a bit more. How to incorporate the previously built/now unbuildable land into the remaining cityscape is certainly something I’d like to look at.
The thing is, I am am only writing a Master’s dissertation and…[Read more]

Thanks Kristine – yea I remember catching the end of his interview on Close Up. I’ll certainly take a look further into the San Francisco earthquake and some of the specific urban design projects they had going on there. Cheers

You’re starting from a very broad view, which is where you should start when you don’t know where you’re going but you need to narrow your focus. You mention rebuilding but you also mention areas that have been deemed unsafe to build upon. Which one do you want to focus on? Maybe integrate the two. I.E. How to incorporate previously built/now…[Read more]

Case in point – regional ASLA conference this summer; not one woman speaker. Oh, well, its POSSIBLE the play equipment mfr. will send a woman to speak….

We are required to have bioswales/rain gardens/bioretention areas in commercial projects in certain jurisdictions and you are correct that there is a gap between old engineering practices and current requirements. It may be something that is well covered currently in landscape architecture education and maybe also in stormwater management in…[Read more]

Research the San Francisco earthquake I think in 1989… The Mayor at the time was on TV1 Close Up last night. He had a few urban design examples that were unpopular at the time and cost him the next election, but one example looked like a fabulous bustling market had been created in an formerly grotty double storey motorway blocking access /…[Read more]

I like Trace Ones answer. The North arrow is always up, unless it isn’t.

Maybe in your area stormwater and floodplain conditions aren’t as much of a consideration.  For me, it is really frustrating to try to explain over and over to engineers how to design a rain garden or bioswale.  I had this conversation today with a couple of engineers, in fact.  They don’t want to try new ideas, and still want to pipe ev…[Read more]

The unfortunate thing is that they define competent as being adequately addressing the written performance standard of an ordinance rather than the many other things that go into what we all consider standards for adequacy.
One would think that if they declare the need to have an LA it would be to adopt the standard that the profession brings with…[Read more]

I work on civil site plans way more than landscape plans and I also research and draw lots of recorded survey plans as well. I don’t recall seeing too many North arrows pointing right.
 
I’ve seen a lot of Massaachusetts Highway Plans with north arrows actually pointing toward the bottom of the page. They used long sheets of paper and ran the r…[Read more]

Thanks I did a similar search online and found similar results, but I wanted to see what other people such as yourself thought and had practiced in the discipline.  I think I will just go with the understanding that as long as everything is consistent then it doesn’t really matter.

I agree.

I did a search on google. I found a city engineering standard that said “straight up”or “to the right” (small city in Washington State – I lived in that area and never heard of that city). I don’t think I’ve seen that as a standard in my area.
It is, as some others have said, how it best fits on the sheet with an effort to have North up.

The key phrase here is “if they are competent at landscape design”…the problem I have encountered is that, unfortunately, they aren’t.

See I completely agree with you that when the site is ‘sideways’ on the paper the north arrow should be to the left, but we looked at several projects from other disciplines like civil engineers that they all oriented the north arrow to the right.  Personally even ever possible I will always point the arrow to the left but I was just wondering…[Read more]

As said by others, North is generally upward, preferably straight up. I think that the convention that you are associating is that when a plan is “sideways” within a plan set, it should be oriented so that the bottom is to the right. The binding should either be to the left or on top so that you can turn the pages in a “normal” way like a book or…[Read more]