Jay Everett

Mary Beth,
This Article may be helpful to you.
In my experience, people who are not members of ASLA or who do not want to emphasize their membership use RLA. RLA of course means “Registered Landscape Architect”. ASLA designates a person who is a full member of ASLA and has a degree or certificate from an accredited program with at least 3 years of…[Read more]

Municipalities have several tools to help them make infill projects more attractive to developers; tax incentives (which may have limits) and federal and state enhancement grants to improve existing infrastructure, but there are also other sources of funding such as Tax Increment Financing. Making it easier for developers to do infill projects is…[Read more]

ALLEN COMPTON, STUDENT ASLA of CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA won an ASLA Award in 2005 for Site Unseen

I watched a screening of it at LABASH ’06 and I was impressed. I agree that video is an under-utilized presentation tool.

I like the conversation that is going here, everyone’s making some pretty good points…

We have all heard that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on oil which is considered a non-renewable resource, but what does that actually mean? It means in 2007 Petroleum accounted for almost 40% of our total Primary Energy Consumption.
Of that amount…[Read more]

Thanks for your response Rico, I think you’re right it is important to stay positive when facing our frustrations with certain policies that guide development. It’s also good to hear that Americans designers aren’t the only ones who sometimes feel forced to compromise good design for perceived economic benefits.

I think we need to start arming…[Read more]

I do not have any direct experience with Filterra products. I was able to find some scientific evidence that they use to back up their claims.

UVA Dept. of Civil Engineering White Paper

It appears that their Bacterra media has even more scientific credibility.

I was not able to find any other independent studies other than the ones shown on…[Read more]

It does make sense Lisa; I wonder what kind of scientific studies have been conducted on this topic.

If there are any MLA students reading this, I think Lisa has come up with a potentially award winning thesis topic. So you better give her credit. =)

Even if you can’t get “organic” plants (I’m assuming this means that there is some sort of certification process) if you can just find native plants for your area then that is a BIG step in the right direction. From my perspective America is coming around to this “progressive” idea. Even here in Nashville in the middle of a huge “Red” state we…[Read more]

In general YES, it is allowed, and most of the time it is a very good idea. However as you suspected, this can be really different from place to place.

In some municipal districts in Middle Tennessee we have had to fight to have street trees allowed in the public right of way (these are usually planted in 5′-10′ grass strips between the back of…[Read more]

Great topic Tandin,
Here’s some supplements that I have enjoyed reading so far:

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
(James Howard Kunstler)
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
(McDonough and Braungart)
Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture
Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and…[Read more]

A CLARB record is required in Mississippi, but only for initial licensure. I finally called CLARB today to find out if they were waiting for anything else from me so they would send out the forms to my references.

They told me they were waiting on my signed affidavit, I told them that I mailed it overnight last wednesday and suddenly they found…[Read more]

Great topic Brandon. It doesn’t surprise me that there has been so little response. With only 2 years of experience I am afraid that I cannot be of much help to you, although I will say that this is one area of practice that I was woefully unprepared for out of college. I had no idea how most landscape architects actually got work, got paid, and…[Read more]

Thanks Andrew, those are the two I was able to find. Both are cool, but seem to focus on art and academia. I was hoping to find something a little more practical. My brother-in-law recently completed the CORO Fellowship for post-graduates interested in public policy:
http://www.coro.org/site/c.geJNIUOzErH/b.2086429/

In the case of that particular…[Read more]

I know that for a while there was some bugs between LandFX and AutoCAD 2007. I think those have been addressed. I have not heard about issues with ’08. I am still using ’06 but we have ’07 Civil3D in our office and we have not had any issues. Although I have had UCS and text scale problems with coordinates done in ’07 Civil 3D because I have…[Read more]

Thanks Brad. I had heard that Mississippi required a council record, but then again, I have heard that it is not required. At any rate, CLARB has transmitted my scores to the Mississippi Board of Architecture (LA Advisory Committee) so I’m sure that I will know for sure in a few days. So what is the state’s incentive to require a council record?…[Read more]