Steven Velegrinis

Steven Velegrinis replied to the topic Right Now- My only real live job option- I need some input from anyone that wants to offer it in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 13 years, 8 months ago

Im an Australian Landscape Architect and Urban Planner and Ive worked in Southeast Asia, China and the Middle East for the past 12 years.

It has been the most pivotal and positive things i ever did in my life and and I can strongly recommend it to you.

Be aware that working culture in China is fairly hardcore. Very, very, very long hours…[Read more]

Steven Velegrinis replied to the topic Green Infrastrucure in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN 14 years, 10 months ago

Green Infrastructure seems to be the global buzz-word at the moment. Its not directly related to your question but the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and the Landscape Institute in the UK have released guidelines on Green Infrastructure – see http://www.aila.org.au/greeninfrastructure/ and http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/PDF/Contrib…[Read more]

Steven Velegrinis replied to the topic What is "progressive" urbanism? How does it differ from New Urbanism? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 14 years, 11 months ago

Vanessa,

There is an excellent albeit academic review of all of these terminologies – Landscape Urbanism, Green Urbanism, New Urbanism, TOD etc etc – in a paper in Landscape Journal written by Richard Weller in 2008. It is called “Landscape (sub)urbanism in Theory: Towards a theory and practice of landscape architecture in regard to the…[Read more]