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oh, that is thoughtful, Cary, and how do you propose to balance the  power of Walmart, to not pay the women in Mauritius 13cents an hour? Are you ok with the triangle shirtwaste factory fire – why did they ever need unions to argue for not having their doors CHAINED CLOSED when the fire started? yeah, unions haven’t done anything for us at a…[Read more]

Ididn’t do ANY DISCREDITING AT ALL, I just noted that their arguments are anecdotal..That is it! You still didn’t answer the question of why corporations should care at all about the commons, over profit..Why should they? And could Monkey Ward have succeeded without WWII, without the POSTOFFICE, without federally subsidized highways, cotton…[Read more]

never heard of either of your amazing economists..and they both have a the same reagan like use of small examples..But they don’t answer the question – why should Monkey ward, or Walmart, care about environmental destruction? Why should they not stop at paying workers 13cents an hour, if they can, because the workers have no power? Why should…[Read more]

you are kidding me, david chrico..free markets in the third world – you obviously have not travelled at all..the ‘free market’ has caused an international global shut-down, on the backs of the tax payers..The free-market gives you the slums of lagos, the slums of Manila, of which I am highly conversant..It is NOT the JOB of industry to look out…[Read more]

on the other hand, I am sure I will never change anyone’s mind…
Off to a lecture at the People’s Republic of Berkeley..We are all union people, there..
 

please see Paul Krugmans article in today’s NYT – “the unions are backing down on benefits” as usual..And the “financial melt-down was caused by the increasing power of the oligarchy”…
duh!
don’t be anti-union guys – it is intolerably ignorant…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

what the heck is so bad about unions? I can’t relate..I think it is just Glenn Beck ignorance that has promoted out societal inabilty to UNDERSTAND what unions do for workers, which we ALL are..We need them now more than ever! Union participation is at the LOWEST it has ever been in this country, so to blame anything on UNIONS is like Rumsfeld…[Read more]

wow, Alan and Denis must be young! it is a huge canard that the unions destroyed the auto industries..The auto industries were destroyed by their inabilty to respond to gas prices, and to change their idea of a car from the ford pick-up to something that appealed to urban residents and women – they are doing it again, I note with dismay, looking…[Read more]

there are only five states without unionized teachers, chris,and they are the bottom five in the ACT/SAT achievement scores..The bottom five..
LA’s where I am belong to an engineering union..It is great..
dont’ forget about learning incentives – pay for going to school, increasing number of liscensures (LEED, CPES, besides RLA)
that should be part…[Read more]

I would download any lecture by Peter Calthorpe, you can even call him and invite him to speak, to get them to understand why we have planning – he was really articulate about New Orleans, after hurricane Katrina..lectures available through i-Tunes..
and any history of planning book, actually – seems they need to be taught about Civics, as Sandra…[Read more]

also, it would seem that their job is not to look for ecomic growth but rather to look out for the common good..good air, safe streets, safe neighborhoods..clean water..good schools..
I will look for concrete examples..

It would seem the examples are too numerous to detail, Mark. One of my hometowns, the ‘unincorporated village’ of Mclean, Va., went from a lovely rural setting with large southern houses and pg hydrangea lined entrances to solid wall to wall ticky tacky townhomes with tape on their windows to represent glass dividers..Or, try driving anywhere in…[Read more]

Mr. Johnson, I am an early riser..Aren’t all gardeners? don’t ask me to a southern european dinner that starts at 9pm, tho..there is nobody home at that time of night..
 
 

Public employees have their salaries published on searchable websites. Hiding what employees make only empowers the employer…as is obvious in the case of BZGirl, that is what the employer is trying to do..Hiding salaries allows men to make 30% more than women, as well as many other abuses..
My rule for offices is, if it’s out, it’s your job to…[Read more]

ok, sorry, Mark, you don’t deserve to be the focus of the the abuse that I want to condemn our entire society over.
 
But still, like I have said in previous posts, ALL my studio professors in my MLA degree were working, just about – and working at the height of their talents and profession..There was a pipeline, in fact, from the school to job…[Read more]

post-bach school for architects and LA’s is the apprenticeship, in other words, the two (or three) years of work you need before you can take the test, Mark.
And I have to re-iterate my support for Henry and his valuation of the teaching of pure design, while in school. How many  others have expressed that sentiment on this site? None, I…[Read more]

landscape is not about spelling, and the student must reach out for himself ….I know you are kidding, Mark Foster, but it is true a lot of students interpret to be the failure of the teacher what is actually their own failure..
that movie about the spelling bee kids, the documentary, pretty well depicted different family attitudes towards…[Read more]

Ha! You radical! thanks for the perspective on the continuous general anti-academic mantra..

If the designed landscape is art, then where are the landscapes designed to provoke, to cause thought, to jolt the viewer politically or visually…
I have always felt that landscape should be more craft than art..
 
You may have artistic elements, but to call landscape design ‘art’ I think is incorrect..It MOSTLY (not always..) serves a…[Read more]

landscape design history tour business, travel by boat and bicycle to all the best landscapes of the world, 1 year school credit at end of it..and only every other year.
spend  intervening year working on history section of the registration test and a landscape architecture museum, both of which improve design work immediately throughout the w…[Read more]