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Legoland? (Sorry, I couldn’t help it…)
http://california.legoland.com/explore/
 
Irvine, CA? Well, it’s 40 years old but is an interesting study none the less…
http://www.cityofirvine.org/cityhall/cd/planningactivities/general_…
 
Shenzhen – China
Dubai – U…[Read more]

This town in Kansas rebuilt ‘green’ after it was completely destroyed by a tornado…http://www.greensburggreentown.org/history/

Everything that is not seen in the basic Sketchup model is done in photoshop, including lighting and finish effects.
I don’t really know of any other good books.  I have both of the books mentioned above.  There is a tutorial online for anything you want to learn though…just google a topic and search (i.e. night time photoshop rendering..) 

Baldwin Park.  Orlando, FL.  New Urbanist community but view as separate town/city.

Putra Jaya in Malaysia

Thank you. I’ll check it out.

There’s Masdar City, although it’s not entirely built yet. I think there’s also quite a few in China.

Question…do you have a BLA or BSLA???

The way states are cutting expenditures, I wouldn’t count on the tuition staying constant anywhere. 

isn’t anybody giving out any scholarships anymore? When I was at Penn, absolutely everyone there except the Saudi’s got money from the school, straight out grants..
I think you have a good list, tho – east coast is the way to go, IMHO..especially Brooklyn..Although UC Pomona won a substantial amount of student awards last year..

Do the math.
The monthly payment on a $120,000 loan would be approx. $1,200. If you get out of school and are making $55,000 you’ll be taking home about $3,200 a month. After you pay your student loan, you’ve got $2,000 to pay for all your needs (food, rent, communications, clothing, health care & entertainment). In most major cities it’s easy to…[Read more]

I am not even sure that an MLA is worth more outside of Teaching than a BLA.

I’m with everyone else on this one, City College is the logical choice.  At the other two schools you will end up with med-school type debt with nowhere near the salary potential.  Do you have an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture?
 
Also, don’t use your savings for tuition and living expenses.  Put that $73,000 into the stock mar…[Read more]

Exactly.  As long as you follow the principles of gravity walls, which low cmu walls are, (compacted  base, clean isolated stone behind,  lots of water tranfer) it will work great.. 
There are some expansion/contractions issues with steel on masonry.  The fastening needs to be a little bit loose–kind of “hanging” it, rather than a tight mount–…[Read more]

I would think it would be a long time before you could pay off that kind of debt. You will probably be making maybe 5-8 thousand dollars more than someone with a BLA when you get out, depending on where you are in the country it could be low 40Ks to mid 50Ks. Most senior landscape architects don’t make over 85K a year.
 
If those are your only 3…[Read more]

I’d save money and go to City College.  I just don’t see you getting that much more value at UPenn and RISD (both are outstanding programs but you will be absolutely crippled by that much debt).  I’d only go in the hole $100K for an MD or DO.  I also think being in NYC will give you lots of access to resources that will benefit you later. I’d do…[Read more]

I got into Cornell for MLA 1 its about 28k so not to bad but it should be worth the money.