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Sorry, me again, like a bad penny, but I think this is a no-brainer – there is NO relationship between harmony in plan and in reality..None at all..Similarly, there is no relationship between visual beauty in reality and in plan..That’s why they have books like “How to lie with maps.”

Monumental sculptures and landscape ceramic art.

Ha! I like what Maui Bob says also – he is the only one who said, life is happening while you are disgruntled, so make sure you are enjoying it – when you are fifty, you will still be working, etc..
 
Thanks maui Bob! You live up to your  name! I am geussing that perhaps you are just a very optimistic Lutheran living in Minnesota, and looking on…[Read more]

ok, I admit defeats on Olin, since my perspective is from Hanna/Olin days, and also “classical’ is really not the right word..
design restraint is better..to describe their work as I know it..Are you guys saying there is no unity to their body of work, as their is to Frank Gehry’s ?(for example)
I geuss that is what I am looking for in Field Op -…[Read more]

(since I like to write about myself, I will continue to indulge myself, since this site LETS me – thank you!)-
I mean, when I was in school, Hanna/Olin have a real style – classical..Andropoggon has another distinct style – very naturalistic, to be brief..Ed Bye is a real stylist  – it would take some thought to articulate, but you can see and…[Read more]

@ Noah, sorry ,  should have been clear in previous comment, the most of what I said refers to the article. Only the last comment to your opinion specifically  of Corner, Field Op, but you seem to have  correctly understood the different thoughts.. …..
I just don’t see Field Op as having a real design inspiration, unlike Garett Ekbo, or Mar…[Read more]

these questions have nothing to do with reality, imho..nothing at all..Landscape architects do not relegate themselves to plants only..urban planners are landscape architects..To get a grip on reality one would have to refer to a survey as to who is doing what..I don’t know any municipality that discludes landscape architects from working as urban…[Read more]

We definitley have surpassed the  number of  people the earth can support for many species, that have been sacrificed to human population growth – more species every day..The river dolphin of china, the kakapo flightless parrot, tasmanian devils with their cancer..there was a hideous article in the New Yorker on the southern european capture of th…[Read more]

I completely disagree that landscape languished prior to 1980, and I also disagree that U of Penn ecological design was happening in ‘the late eighties” – Ian McHarg started the school in the sixties, and his ideas did not change.
Just factual inaccuracies, but it is like people were BORN in 1980 – good grief, we MUST include history in our…[Read more]

Is the new person not getting benefits?
I have quit MANY jobs, and let me tell you, a job is WAY better than no job, and sometimes another job can be pretty hard to find..
seems like you should at least be able to verbalize your complaints to the boss, if you can. Sometimes bosses are actually waiting for the push-back (and look down on the…[Read more]

East Hampton on Long Island has been working at seeding oysters and scallops for years..Here’s a post, but there is a lot more info on that, and they are nice guys, I am sure they would be happy to talk to you about it.
.tp://www.town.east-hampton.ny.us/AquaReport07.cfm

I like Firesign Theater’s argument for ‘nucular’ – ” Nuclear = Unclear” hee hee ..the original Glenn Beck blackboard guys..

I geuss I see it as the second definition, ‘artistic’, in your Miriam Webster – here’s my list
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aesthetic
 
perhaps they are both correct,
sorry, Henry, I have an aesthetic interest in argument.. (? )The deparment of argument.
 
 

Mr. Quackenbush, I believe you are mistaken…or is it misteaken..? (kidding.) Aesthetic does not place a value, it only refers to art and artistic sensibilities..
something can be aesthetically pleasing because it is artistically to your taste, or it can be aesthetically offensive, or offensive to your artistic sensibilities..
I love a good word…[Read more]

I can’t believe you didn’t mention them as a fashion item. I can just see one around Angelie Jolie’s neck as she does the red carpet..Might be good for your skin too, another selling point..
 
hee hee. I just remembered what Carol and Leslie from Andropoggon called the tree in a mulch island thing – they loved to compare the landscape to the…[Read more]

How about rings of impatiens  – that style almost defines the Hamptons..GACK!

there is a plan that the bush administration set back significantly, for a joint sewage treatment plant on the border at Tijuana..It’s still moving ahead, and will happen eventually..But the first spill, 90 million gallons – that is San Diego letting that stuff loose – that is america, guys, spilling that stuff in the good old Pacific..
but…[Read more]

Coronado, California. Plus a great library, great bike trails, good city athletic offerings, pools, tennis courts, dog  beaches, and city-sponsored theater, art shows, and music…. And, as the weather-man said last week – how is the weather? “Delightful!”
Could even change my sour-puss new yorker attitude, over time..
drawback- raw sewage s…[Read more]

why not rent, until you can afford to buy,  in the place with walkability? I think the home mortgage deduction is go ing the way of the dodo, if it has not already, and it seems to me for the good of the future of the earth (less driving!) we  need to populate our inner cities – with renters!
The people of Orange County Virginia (extremely r…[Read more]

Isn’t what you are describing, Thomas, as a desireable way to govern growth, the ‘form-based’ planning concept..?
 
I don’t think ‘people ‘ ever create neighborhoods, you need to at least be able to fund some construction, which already takes a little organization and intelligence..
 
I want less flexibilitly..I want to live with no damn cars, a…[Read more]