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It sounds like what we called, when I was in school (graduated in 1987, Chris,perhaps pre-date this verbiage fashion..), “Reading Landscapes” the whole process taken from the book “Reading the Landscapes of America” by May Theilgard Watts..Great book..
 

what the heck is a landscape narrative?

Baltimore Harbor Waterfront Revitalization is a famous case study of successful design. Camden New Jersey, on the other hand, is unsuccessful..there are dozens of examples, though, just google “Waterfront Revitalization Projects” and start to read!

How about a mix of community gardens and  Sculpture gardens that use the ruins to commemorate the past? In the 19 th century the British were big on building artificial ruins in their gardens – perhaps since you have the ruins you can turn what is around them into gardens (vegetables, fruit trees?) owned by the community, but leave the ruins and…[Read more]

Ramzi, I grew up in Beirut in the sixties and seventies, before the serious pollution problems existed. I used to walk through AUB every day, although I understand the Landscape department is out in the Bekaa?
 
 Anyway, how about making your design focus more on  ‘sustainablity’ by building some natural systems on the waters edge that clean po…[Read more]

Katsura is good in Modesto, Henry..Cercis canadensis out here are Cercis Occidentalis, and they somehow have none of the charm of our east coast redbud, IMHO..They are tough-looking where our redbud is so delicate and beautiful..Same flower color,but  it is the dry toughness that I dislike, whereas the east coast is a graceful delicate plant that…[Read more]

How about Katsura’s – I love them, they have a beautiful form, beautiful leaf, they can be pruned  nicely to fit the tight spot as they grow, and they are pretty tough, hard to kill..
I also like Gingkos, but bosc’s  of Gingkos is from the Seventies, IMHO, and makes it look seventies!
Hee hee!

Oh, my bad, I am programmed to respond humorously only to the smiley emoticon..sorry, Andrew!
group hug ! (that is a first!!!)

p.s., the comment on spelling was directed at Mr. Radish, actually, Andrew, but you can own it if  you want..
 
More on-topic, the construction of this EPA site is old news to me – many of the workers wrote in some huge comment site about various different aspects to the design that were good or bad, they all had lots of opinions..
I agree, tho, t…[Read more]

who said I lerned Olmsteed has no ‘a’?..I will always maintain that I will never learn how to spell the old master’s name, and that is all there is to it!
“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, you could be missing the joke of the century.” Joan Rivers
 

Just curious, did you mean hip-o-cracy? Or hypocrisy? Probably both, I would think..

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103
 
another must-read from good old Matt Taibbi.

Wow! that is a cool site, Henry! Thanks for posting – the design of the site is outrageous, that in itself is worth it..

Craig, yes, I see what you are saying..I removed the post because sequentially it seemed lost, in the thread. Your perspective def. adds  to thoughts on oppression. 
 I geuss it may seem like it was better in the sixties,  but not for women who needed abortions or wanted to tell people their husbands beat them. Not for clean air or clean wat…[Read more]

That link is the epitome of how not to have a discussion.The conservative dude is shouting talking points, and the OWS’ers are inarticulate and not thought out..The best rep. I have seen is that dude in the Union Army hat early on, talking to some FOX woman, and running circles around her..
That clip is a joke..Is that the best conversation our…[Read more]

Jon, I am sure you didn’t mean it, but to imply that some category of people you call ‘middle class whites’ are ignorant of predjudice, unequal economic systems, and institutionalization of greed is pretty simplistic..Almost all immigrants to the US faced predjudice, either in their home country or when they got here to america. Many many…[Read more]

It does seem like we  need a more subtle definition than just ‘capitalism’ to convey a more accurate agenda for social change.. Our society is not solely capitalistic, nor is it the concept of buying and selling that we (liberals) object to…completely…
And I think what we all like is ‘representative democracy’ but insofar as that system has b…[Read more]

Oakland has had some real problems with the police, recently, I am hoping that is what drove that incident. Tensions are already very high between police and residents, in Oakland

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025
 
Here’s Matt Taibbi’s take from today – really worth a read.

I would contact a public relations person at State Department – they have had to retrofit hundreds of embassies and consulates throughout the world for defense, since the eighties, specifically since the Beirut bombing in 1983, and they have an active program for Embassy retrofitting  for defense – in fact, this is one place to look for a job, if…[Read more]