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Your wife had her own bike path built?

Sorry, I’m a wiseguy. I’m from NJ. I can’t help it.

yikes! someone needs a snack to get the blood sugar up! Even if it *WAS* simply a selective harvest of Craigslist (which it isn’t), that would be still be a useful service since CL is a pain to search through. But jeez dude, have a fig newton or something…

It’s actually time for the suburbs to morph, and I think LA’s are the one to come up with the visions. Too many supersize stores that are basically empty with oversize parking lots. I can say that I live in the burbs of NYC. Very accessible, but the planning just doesn’t work, so people end up driving their cars to the village for less than a 1/4…[Read more]

I grew up in the ‘Burbs’ w/ a decent sized yard and undeveloped woods behind the house. Then we moved to a larger home IN the woods (but still in the burbs) where we kept as many trees as we could. Honestly, if I didn’t have a yard to play around in, I wouldn’t be a landscape architect. I now live more urban, but cannot wait to buy a house in a…[Read more]

I don’t think anyone is arguing that we ALL need to live in ‘urban cores,’ but if someone were making that argument, I would probably agree with you. I think, as you’ve stated before, that variety and choice is key.

Transportation enabled suburbia is great if adequate (economical) transportation is available and there still are ‘urban cores’ for…[Read more]

Its a tough issue. The american dream that has been ingrained in much of our population is centered around the suburbian one-acre lot. It doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. Infact, who wouldn’t want to be a landowner with their own plot of land. The problem is that evidence has shown how damaging sprawl can be to the environment. The fact is,…[Read more]

Hey landplanner,

Thanks for the comment! You’re right. We harvest some of our jobs from Craigslist along with other sites to bring them all in one place. It just so happens that there are people hiring in the Bay Area, so they are showing up on the list. This is a work in progress and we plan to continue broadening our search.

We are also trying…[Read more]

Easy Tiger! : ) Feedback is always welcome…

Craig, as for “we failed to instill what some would call good old “corny” values in our children. Things like a sense of perseverance, team work, caring for one another and being respectful” well….the media and other influences don’t make it easy, but I really tried to instill that in my son. However, I’ve noticed (at 43) he also is very sur…[Read more]

I find it to be that Baby Boomers are probably laid off because they are getting paid to much for what they are worth in a company (they have been in the practice for so long with wages going up each year at some point they reach a point where to many baby boomers means to much money being paid out in a compnay). Why pay a person who has been in…[Read more]

Well, actually that’s a pirated version as in it’s not legal

Unfortunately you bought the program. You could have obtained it here, at no cost, as in free.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2296079/47538225/

Might be a slightly older version but it is completely functional and the price is right.

I differ with you greatly about the quality of graphic renderings as compared to SketchUp.

Realtime…[Read more]

While this may seem like a useful service, it is nothing but a harvesting of job postings that appear mostly on Craiglist to begin with.
You will notice, most, if not all of these, are from the San Francisco Bay Area and just beyond.

Coincidence ?

I don’t think so.

Transportation enabled suburbia. One could enjoy the benefits of humanity without the burden of it. There seems to ba a philosophy that this must be stopped. While there are and has been an ability to let it just do its thing and become stereotypic strip mall sprawl, that can and is much more under control in communities that want to address it.…[Read more]

As a person I love my suburb. Living in a good sized metro area the suburbs give you a choice when it comes to where you can live. In my newer suburb there is a focus on walkable communities and parks. I live in a older home but am surrounded by newer neighbors and it is a great place to live.
There is an opportunity for Landscape Architects to…[Read more]

(a little late with a reply but…) one quick reference is http://www.zoolex.org – search in the Gallery section for ‘bears’. Several bear habitat examples (not all brwon bears) will come up. Also, under the Firm link, you can find design firms that work in the zoological field. Hope this helps.

This is a great idea. With worldwide economy in shambles, many people are looking for jobs and this not only helps those in need of a job, but also helps the employer make better contacts. rm (PS, I just wish I wasn’t too old to work)
In truth, I am very old, but I actually work everyday. Landscaping is the best part of living. I am rebuilding and…[Read more]

The point has already been made, but those original suburbs are today considered urban neighborhoods. And the reason they were built was that conditions in the city were so deplorable that those burbs were intended to escape the unlivable cities. The more we relied on cars and highways the further we were able to live away from the places we work.…[Read more]

This topic has become more about general politics (thoughtful entries, by the way) but I just wanted to say, as a baby boomer, I don’t know where this image came from that we had it so easy (further down page). I endured 3 bad recessions and times that I worked as a newspaper ad layout person, textile designer, signage designer, landscape company…[Read more]

Just a couple of thoughts….
-What we consider denser urban areas today were actually suburbs at the city limits fifty years ago.
-Many people move to the burbs because the construction of the denser older city areas has become dilapidated and of poor quality construction. I admit, I live in the burbs. Why? Looking at the homes closer to the…[Read more]