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ps, my own hometown was the unincorporated city of McLean Virginia..Now there’s a good example of the stranglehold of planning concepts on development! NOT!.

Jason, Wytold is harping on his talking point, “public-private” NOT market based only. Market based only  to me would mean exclusively private, right? That is NOT what Wytolds tired ‘idea’ is all about.. He’s  been saying that for a while, public-private, public private, and to that I say, yawn, so what else is new? 
to the prefurbia concept of pr…[Read more]

Edna, my favorite (deceased ) designer, Ed Bye, A.E. Bye, was known for his horse farms – but more for the beauty than practicality – the horses had air conditioned stalls, 20×20, so you can imagine the type of horseflesh he designed for. the dry-laid retaining walls and stone drinking trough – gorgeous! Worth looking at – his picture book of his…[Read more]

Ha! jump qualified..hee hee…I think Thomas is on to something with hardscape and prickly, also- I think that is where I would fit in, in addition to being extremely defensive..
find your niche!

Wow, impressed again – you know the author! Thanks for the offer, it’s a theoretical interest for me for now, though
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ps, I like the new photo, also – old hippy days? Alll men should have long hair, in my book..
 
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Cool, Henry! You are a fount, a veritable fount..
I have been interested in those jobs for years, having grown up in the Foreign Service..Definitely checking out that book –
Gracias!

IMHO the incompetence this guy is detecting in graduates is due to emphasis on computers and other toys, which allow one to produce incredible looking plans that are completely empty of thought….
I think my school was great . Most of the professors were seriously working professionals – Bob Hanna was in the midst of Canary Wharf in London,…[Read more]

HA! exactly, Thomas..I think the Tardus Ignoro also drips gum onto the sidewalks, like an old car leaking oil.
 
 

The International Federation of Landscape Architects – very good group – active, awards  – lots of good people
 
http://www.iflaonline.org/
 
good luck with the talk – does it involve Landscape?

I love this – but I don’t know – “Orchid Hush” – is me..Compassionate, artistic, poetic..
 
hmm.
 
Maybe there’s another color for the bad side..
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sorry, I have to add – Jason says, Whatever the gov. is doing aint working  – please include whatever wall street, banks, and businesses are doing, as well as educational systems, and the military,  it aint working.
We can’t not allow the government to work, and then blame it when it doesn’t work. Altho that is the republicans plan (Karl Rove, G…[Read more]

August 30, 2010 New Yorker – article on Koch and tea party..sorry, rest of stuff too silly to deal with..Not interested in changing your  mind..Back to landscape discussions!

chad, do you realize that these tax cuts that you are so enthusiastic about have been in place for ten years – so this will be business as usual. Bush drove the economy into the ground with his anti-regulatory policies and the tax cuts and the unfunded war. Clinton helped with the repeal of Glass-steagall.. 
Calling Obama a muslim is nut-case…[Read more]

here’s Nouriel Roubini, one of my favorite economists, really interesting if you ever catch him on C-span or Charlie Rose
“So, in conclusion the verdict from history and empirical evidence is quite clear. Supply side economics is “voodoo economics”. Reductions in tax rates (starting from initial moderate tax rate levels) do not siginificantly…[Read more]

Chad, the tax cut package WAS the conservative line – repubs insist that a dollar back in taxes to people and businesses brings in more work, despite the evidence of the past eight years of tax policies as well as all the studies to the contrary. So in this tax package,the conservatives got what they wanted – tax cuts for all, despite the fact…[Read more]

not the case in California..In fact, Southern SD is looking at major highway construction, expansion of Rte 5 from ten to fourteen lanes, and the central valley has the bullit train proposal, huge project..I just finished a lane widening..
Sorry, Nevada..All I know, generally, is the re-investment act worked, except as the republicans limited it -…[Read more]

But both that temporary job and the furloughed job exist, at least where I work, to some degree because of the Reinvestment stuff.
The alternative would have been no jobs all around.
 
 

and don’t forget that the tax cut bill, as far as I know, also involved the elimation of the mortgage tax credit. No more subsidized sprawl, less jobs for residentially inclined LA’s..

Jason, I disagree – the stimulus funds kept many state DOT’s going, it certainly did ours, and the smart economists (Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz) detail it’s effects, with the only complaint being it should have been larger.
Additionallly, government jobs related to climate change are not going to go away, this expertise will proliferate, and…[Read more]

There already is a proliferation of jobs related to climate change review in the governments (state, fed., local). These could be a real chance to make a difference. Also walkable street type jobs – related to climate change mandates, actually. These are good places to look for work, and will only grow in the coming decade. IMHO