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Trace One replied to the topic Name this perennial… found in New Zealand in the forum PLANTS & HORTICULTURE 10 years, 11 months ago
tough one, Andrew! I give!
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Trace One replied to the topic Flowers replace grass in UK in the forum STORY BOARD 10 years, 11 months ago
very funny, Henry.
On the other hand, I think even Benjamin Franklin knew we cannot have a world without bees..
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Trace One replied to the topic Where to move in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 10 years, 11 months ago
Washington DC is the opposite coast, but it is the most depression proof city in the US. I kinda like DC, despite the humidity – the museums are great, and the beach is pretty close.
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Trace One replied to the topic Study shows urban vegetation correlates with reduced crime rates. in the forum RESEARCH 11 years ago
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a shrub.
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Trace One replied to the topic Firms to visit in Los Angeles and San Diego in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years ago
I think Spurlock Porier is one of the best in the area, I think. James Barnett is always advertising, don’t know why, but that does not seem great to me.
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Trace One replied to the topic structure in the landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
To me, landscape is not art, but more craft. The path essentially just means circulation, and again, to me, that should be dominant over style or other decorative elements. If you like to think of your landscapes like paintings, Jason, good for you. I don’t find that particularly useful. For me, the design is in service to the users and the…[Read more]
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Trace One replied to the topic structure in the landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
Actually, while thinking about this, I remembered that Ian McHarg would say that the first step is to determine what sort of ecological system your landscape is before you start working with it, with the purpose of that thought process being that you go with the existing system, rather than fight it..Roadways are usually floodplain type…[Read more]
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Trace One replied to the topic landscape architecutre response to natural disaster in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
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Trace One replied to the topic landscape architecutre response to natural disaster in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
The New York project is just a dream, a newspaper article, no more, in response to Hurricane Sandy – that is all I know.
The Berkeley professor, I would not like to use the name, if you don’t mind.
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Trace One replied to the topic landscape architecutre response to natural disaster in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
One of the professors at Berkeley charged in in the face of governmental incompetence, and mapped the new shoreline and floodplains, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Our part is also to advocate for environmental solutions, and to design them responsiblly when we can- can you imagine all the edges of New York’s outer boroughs transformed into b…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic structure in the landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
It seems to me, Andrew, you are taking ‘structure’ literally, as buildings perhaps, with the three dimensionality the most important thing?
and I stand by it – outdoor rooms are just another type of path.
perhaps it is ‘ego-centric’ as you say, but it seems a futile gesture to not have a design be for something – I can’t wrap my head around t…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic Conserving water considered historically innappropriate in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
that article makes my neck hurt. As far as I am concerned, ecology takes precedence over history, always.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21899227
that is where we should be using our brains. Yes, history is very important, but to talk about historical sod, in drought starved texas, is like talking about not raising taxes on t he…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic structure in the landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 1 month ago
Disagree with all of above comments.
The basis of all landscape design is the path. Determine where the paths go, where the journey of the landscape goes, from where to where, (even if it is onlly an ornamental planting bed – there is a visual path), and go from there. All else is decoration on top of the path * structure*. From that you get ma…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 2 months ago
Cool, Tanya, very interesting.
In my humble, one thing that makes for outdoor experiences is making the outdoors part of your daily path for activities, so you can’t avoid it.
For me, excercize is all about destination walking or biking – I like to have a reason to go somewhere, walking or biking, and the daily commute is vastly improved by being…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 2 months ago
Leslie, thank you for that post, what an incredibly rich site. Lots to absorb, thank you so much.
I will never forget the children confined to their buses, until the school bell rang, parked by a nice set of playgrounds, but not allowed to get out before class, even while most of them were on the buses for over an hour. For me, that time playing…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 2 months ago
Wow..Memphis botanical is pretty amazing. I just can’t relate – I am not of that generation, I grew up running wild on the streets of Beirut in the sixties, and plus I don’t have kids. But it seems so programmatic, all of it..
Can we outfit each child with a dog to show them how to inspect a natural area? Or just give them a bunch of balls, to s…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic Has anyone taken the Caltrans Landscape Architecture exam? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 2 months ago
I don’t think it is the same as when I took the exam, which was before the hiring freeze, etc. Good luck, is all I have to say, and be prepared to wait for the phone call – maybe even several years…Or not, if you are lucky..
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Trace One replied to the topic Designing Natural Play Spaces for Children in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 2 months ago
Interesting question. It seems to me that the best types of places to connect kids to nature would be non-programmatic (“Passive recreation”) natural areas. Prospect Park in Brooklyn is one of my favorite designs, I used to do childrens classes on urban nature there, and all you need are trees and grass, a water body is nice also, to get the…[Read more]
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Trace One replied to the topic What Trends will Influence Garden Design and Landscape Architecture in 2013? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 4 months ago
You two, Henry and craig, contradicted each other – one says people design by trends, the other (Henry) says we don’t design by trends.
I am looking at the question more from a historical perspective. I think the use of granite and infinite edge pools falls below the category of trend, I would call it more a fad. I think the question makes me…[Read more] -
Trace One replied to the topic What Trends will Influence Garden Design and Landscape Architecture in 2013? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 4 months ago
I don’t think that is the point, henry, of thinking about ‘trends’. I geuss one could question whether there are ‘trends’ but there certainly used to be – the Bauhouse, the Impressionists, were all part of a group consciousness that reflected not only the history of thought on a particular topic, but the current state of the thinking process.…[Read more]
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