landplanner

Thank you for posting this. I’m thinking the same way.
I read several econ and one very good housing blog from time to time. What they all seem to point to is the huge “shadow” inventory of homes that are still in the foreclosure pipeline that have to be worked through first before there is any real sustained recovery in housing. They all agree on…[Read more]

Leslie:

Thank you for contributing this. Unfortunately, this only reinforces what other similiar or equal articles for at least a year. That is not a critique in the slightest. It is an acknowlegement that very little, if nothing has changed on this topic, and what the realities are for “architects” are the same shared realities that all…[Read more]

Okay, enough is enough. Can we give this whole thread the royal rest and  deliberate negligence it so badly needs ? Everything that needs to be said has been stated here and elsewhere in related posting topics. Please people, move on.

Maui Bob:

You made his work way too easy !! We both clearly see this topic the same way. Please let me know when you plan to sell your Facebook IPO shares. That should be when they bottom out at less than $1.00. That will be my “buy” sign. I can only afford to invest through mutual funds,. The few that I am invested with what little I have…[Read more]

Aiyou:
 
The subject you have posted about here has been discussed in this forum to the point it is ready to be dead and buried. Many, many people who are dealing will all sides of this concern have already commented, at length. I am one of them. I suggest you do a search here with queries such as “unemployment”, “job prospects”, “recession” and…[Read more]

I would highly recommend the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. You will go by the Mission on the way there, so if you want to play a real “tourist”, that is still worth a visit. The Santa Barbara Courthouse downtown is an absolute “must”. There is a great park near the wharf that is also across from a very big hotel resort. I can’t think of the name…[Read more]

Jamie:
 
I think your onto something here. My completely unscientific survey shows that there are far more employment ads for landscape maintenance and design/build landscape contractor employment opportunities currently (and this has been the case for quite some time) than for landscape architects.
 
I am aware of some landscape architecture f…[Read more]

Thank you for posting this Roland and yes, those are good indicators. We need as many good indicators
as we can find these days. I am an AICP planner and have found that being able to offer credible and clear experience and background in planning and community development has helped me and broadened my appeal as a landscape architect. In the last…[Read more]

Roland:
 
I’m completely onboard with you that it will be a relatively local from the ground-up groundswell movement, if and when we have had enough of these conditions,  As far as rental and affordable housing goes, I have had a long-standing interest in community land trusts that are formed to provide this. I have never had the privelege to wor…[Read more]

Again another on-target statement that makes reconsider. The “old normal” was a zenith of a time for some of the greatest, most revered and praised accomplishments of our country. Architects, landscape architects and artists did some amazing things during that time that are cherished places and spaces throughout our country. Timberline Lodge comes…[Read more]

Roland:
 
Thank you for your lighthearted but well-intentioned reply. I regret that I sunk into a snarky and cynical mindset in my posting and commentary here and probably discouraged or insulted some people in doing so, for that my regrets.
 
I see things the exact same way you. We will get through this “new normal”
Last time we had anything a…[Read more]

This gaucho knows what he is talking about. Very insightful commentary and well worth considering before making any move to South American (which stole our name- thank you Randy Newman)

Here is something I found that as far as statistical data goes, this is probably a fairly reliable and recent indicator because it comes from a fairly credible economic and global affairs journal, the Economist.  Still, it does not tell you what kind of jobs these countries are having a hard time “filling”. I am a little skeptical for two clear re…[Read more]

You heard right about the  UofW program. I am proof positive of that. Did it increase my employment appeal ? Yes, back when there was real, positive employment in our profession.
Your encouraging naysayer.
Landplanner

Craig:
 
I am more in the “glass full in a shaky hand” category. I greatly appreciate your clear eyed, shoulder to the grindstone outlook. I share a lot of that, and that is what has propelled me back to China. We are both doing the probable, improbable and anything in between, to get through this, and we both know we are from the lighted end of…[Read more]

Roland:

This might not lead you anywhere closer to a job prospect in Brazil, but it is worth a multi-level Google search. Even though the nation of Portugal is in pretty sorry economic shape itself, chances are they have a national version of ASLA. If I were a Portugal based firm , I would have opened an office presence many year ago in order to…[Read more]

Earthworker wrote the type of reply I was actually going to write to you myself, but, in a rare moment of indecision, I decided to keep mine decidely upbeat. All the points Earthworker raises are undeniably and irrevocably true. You can chose to inhale whatever reality warping and mind altering compounds that make up the rarified air you seem to…[Read more]

Kim:
 
A very wise choice as I commented before. I have  been following employment downside trends in our profession for enough time now, and so have others here, to tell you that you will be in one of the few states that actually has apparently had enough of an economy that is still breathing oxygen and, therefore creating jobs in the design p…[Read more]

Hi Walter:
 
You may have read my postings before, but if you have not, let me introduce myself. I am Landplanner and yes, that is my psuedonym for now. If we strike up a closer camraderie here, then we can advance beyond my selective anonymity.
Anyway, I am writing you in a three fold manner. First fold is to say that the urban sketchers link i…[Read more]

Henry:
 
Your absolutely right. I was out of line and went over the line in my commentary. It came
from a place of frustration and low tolerance for some of the blog topics that get floated her
sometimes. I do not apologize for finding this one very topic to be a little lean on intro and background
that might lead to the question that it p…[Read more]