Land8 | Tom Cluff | Activity https://land8.com/members/tomcluff/activity/ Activity feed for Tom Cluff. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:25:34 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 456856c9ed040dfdb37433d0792a33a7 Tom Cluff replied to the topic Tell Us Something We Already Didn't Know in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/tell-us-something-we-already-didnt-know/#post-156339 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:28:34 +0000 I was at a conference a couple of years ago where, in an aside, one of the speakers told a story about how he and a fellow student (back in the 80s) read through every word of every issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine from the 20s and 30s. It turns out that the magazine did not contain a single mention of the Great Depression (or anything…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1b6e5570d05953cd1718eff624d09a9 Tom Cluff replied to the topic Rise & Fall of LA Firms: Did Company Greed Kill Our Jobs? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/rise-fall-of-la-firms-did-company-greed-kill-our-jobs/#post-160921 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0000 No, no one has these statistics. I’ve been looking at doing a master’s thesis related to the impact of the economic downturn on the profession, but there is so little in the way of reliable data that even designing a research proposal is a exercise in frustration.
The closest you could get to data that might give you a peek at what’s happened to…[Read more]

]]> 0 6cd93e39da5665d5b2e2ca8fa1d73193 Tom Cluff replied to the topic State of the Profession in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE http://land8.com/forums/topic/state-of-the-profession/page/8/#post-170117 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:16:14 +0000 @James ivy – Thanks for the response. Your answer is very helpful. It is also the closest to what I was after in starting this discussion. I wonder though, would it be possible for you to estimate totals for the questions in my post? I’m sorry if I’m imposing.

@ Nick Aceto – It’s unfortunate that they seem like rhetorical questions. I’m reall…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6ca240631a0e43972d52870e1a47861 Tom Cluff replied to the topic What is "progressive" urbanism? How does it differ from New Urbanism? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-is-progressive-urbanism-how-does-it-differ-from-new-urbanism/page/3/#post-172253 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:36:39 +0000 Sometimes “progressive” is just a buzzword that people use to deflect criticism. As in, “This project will be built using principles of Progressive Urbanism, so if you aren’t supporting it, you must be against good design.”

Otherwise, as the term has been used, I don’t see anything to distinguish the design principles of one from the other. Good,…[Read more]

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