Emily Struthers

Thanks for the info! Really, I’m just starting to consider working abroad and figuring out what sort of opportunities might exist for me. At this point, I’m open to anything.

Thanks for the response! So it sounds like my BLA would be the same as the 3year degree? And therefore, I wouldn’t qualify for a job requiring post grad. The reason I was looking at the U.K. was because I saw a posting through a large international firm that had an opening in the U.K. but not in the U.S. A few months ago I looked up jobs in…[Read more]

Thank you for trying to rationalize my proposals. Yes, some of them are a little off the wall but, simply by considering them it brings us to more questions. I’m a fan of questions, they sometimes lead to answers.
I guess what I’m doing with this whole post thread here, is trying to figure out what other questions can be asked about culture today…[Read more]

Oh sorry, did my curiosity about the changing needs of people get in the way of your copy/paste design?

I know the theory, but now I see what your thought process was with the modernization bit there. Gotcha. I’d say it makes at least some sense. I should revisit the whole theory anyways and since, as mauiBob has so kindly pointed out, I have too much time, I’ll look for it in the library, thanks! go wolfpack.

I’d like to reply to you as well with a link from today’s ASLA’s The Dirt http://dirt.asla.org/2012/08/14/a-natural-wi-fi-station-in-paris/ . The most interesting point of the article is that “Five minutes after it was set up, people were using the map, sitting and making calls.” Proof that there is a need and a desire for such …[Read more]

Sorry you haven’t figured out my point. This article in today’s ASLA’s The Dirt http://dirt.asla.org/2012/08/14/a-natural-wi-fi-station-in-paris/ an obvious embodiment of the possibilities. The article points out that in the 19th century the flâneur had particular needs, and today’s flâneur has a new set of needs. It’s ok if you keep designi…[Read more]

A digital wall, that’s cool! Maybe something like that would become a focal feature of a modern park. Long ago, fountains used in gardens were a showcase of technology. Today, we all get more-or-less how a pump works. What could be the next ‘fountain’?

yes yes yes. I love the idea of a revisit to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. In the Late 70s/ early 80s people go out to public places to read books and talk to each other and drink coffee. That part hasn’t changed, but add on to that cell phone conversations, laptop use, texting, gps use, e-readers, tablet devices, and cameras in every p…[Read more]

Good point, I was certainly addressing a larger scale than residential design. I was thinking more about public spaces and AER. And then beyond that into how they can share, navigate to, and be encouraged to use. And then a little bit of dreaming about what more could happen there.
I’ve made such an extreme categorization of people to prove a poi…[Read more]

Than before the crash sure, but it’s still been a general decline, correlating to increase in technology based recreation. An article, though written in 2006, still has some value and a point: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479706000491
Yes those those thrifty/outdoorsy means of recreation are rising. But that doesn’t me…[Read more]

I’d like to look at your focus on who is developing the land, or rather, who has money and growth to be able to even fathom developing land. Healthcare, obviously, you nailed it. But what else? Where else is there potential? Social networking, technology, internet based operations. These are and are continuing to get huge. And that changes the way…[Read more]

Perhaps–that is, if the ‘wildlife bridge’ served to fill more than just a gap in space. What I’m saying here, is that on each side of the bridge you have some pretty established vegetation, it would help for there to be some sort of continuity between the existing ‘wildlife’ and the engineered bridge. This would encourage squirrels, birds,…[Read more]