Barbara Peterson

To start, check out a website called ZooLex Zoo Design Organization- http://www.zoolex.org . It is a website dedicated to zoo design – I think that you will find it useful. Look in the Gallery section as well as the Firms section (Firms section will get you to companies that work in the zoo field), and then also check out the Research section (you’ll…[Read more]

I would generally agree that playgrounds are too ‘safe’. But by that I mean too boring.

I have a 9 year old son who has been ‘testing out’ playgrounds for me for years (he was our unofficial office ‘playground tester’ before he started school). I’ve allowed him to test them out how he wanted …okay, at first I made him ‘follow the rules’. You…[Read more]

Depends on what you are interested in but I like:
– Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder – Richard Louv
– Up by Roots: Healthy Soils and Trees in the Built Environment – James Urban (skimmed it and it looks very interesting – will be reading it when I finish my last book0