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Just to play devils advocate, I personally love the sight of a huge tree in a small urban space, I think it  gives the space a true- er scale – I second the vote for a Gingko, they have great bark when they get old, and if you have a teeny space don’t clutter it up with a lot of teeny plants..

yeah, I geuss it’s probably a fake..still funny to me, even if it is a fake..sort of like a SNL skit..

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Don’t take it personally, Thomas!

I would get a civil engineering degree – with that you can go anywhere. and it is way more recession proof than LA…

Walk over from Brooklyn to Manhattan, as everyone has said, on the Brooklyn Bridge, (it’s a really dramatic walk,  really awesome) and then go on up the west side, through Battery Park, to all the incredible parks on the West Side, one after the other, on the waters edge – including the High Line, of course, which is a couple of blocks or so in f…[Read more]

more information please! Can we see a leaf, or, better,  a close-up branch?

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/krugman-unions-are-only-remaining-cou

That still doesn’t prove that union contributions exceed GOP donor contributions – Sheldon Adelson alone bankrolled Gingrich’s entire bid for the presidency this time. The numbers don’t compare. And yes, it may be nice for you to see your congressman, but it would be nice if they could treat each other like humans,  and I think this sleeping in…[Read more]

Unions were the largest anonymous donors? Where does that come from? I call BS on that.
The trouble with this kind of stuff is that most people really can’t hear the opposing viewpoints, and don’t want to. The fact that there has not been one documented case of voter fraud, but systemic voter supression efforts on the part of the GOP  will not…[Read more]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/06/06/right-wing-media-disappear-fact-that-conservati/135048
and here is union money vs. ‘dark’ money – just one article. There is no contest, particularly with the disdain many young people hold unions in these days – it all goes along with the “What is the matter with Kansas” problem  of people thinking…[Read more]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169709/voter-suppression-confederacy-rises-again
voter supression served up for you, Jordan.

Jordan, you are not reading about the voter supression efforts of the GOP? Two cases at least have gone to court – the GOP writing rules that limit times that voting places are open (less time in Democratic counties), requireing photo id ‘s that have an expiration date  – I beleive at least two of these rules have been thrown out of court, so if…[Read more]

Yes, thank you Jason! I am thinking of the Gehry design – Eisenhower..! I don’t think I’ve ever seen the FDR in DC you are talking about..Want to try to check that out..
Lets hear it for architects in the Landscape …

you know, Landplanner, I have always found the narrative of the Wash. D.C. design to be it’s weaknes – I know the family sued for years to have the depiction of the youthful FDR removed,  and I think the entire design revolves around one large tree..To me, that is weak. I prefer abstraction.
But this is like a big urinal and skateboarder park,…[Read more]

You can’t seriously be posting this comment on a Landscape site, Mr. Wennerstrom… The great Landscape father’s  Central Park design a shock?
Check out Prospect Park in Brooklyn, if Central Park is news to you. Prospect Park  is his true masterpiece, an almost perfect joining of art and nature and culture (use)…..

right, Roland – Romney getting a laugh out of the line, “Obama wanted to stop the rise of the oceans,” almost made me physically ill. Who are these people?

If you want political argument, there are TONs of web sites – Slate gets pretty lively, Salon, you can comment on the NYT web site – and on and on..And man, does it get low pretty quick.
I like to comment on politics, but also do not think this is the right site for it.
but as for an opinion, perhaps walled ‘Womens Gardens’ will become popular if…[Read more]

Never one step, is what we learned – it’s weak design, and a trip hazard – and I disagree with Danile Miller, two 3″ risers are better than one six inch riser Two three-inches sound nice. Don’t know where you go the idea that to risers is veboten, Stephanie – for the pace issue, two is definitely preferabel to one.
There is a marvelous long…[Read more]

Thanks for posting, Doug. The writer seems to have very muddied thinking, IMHO. They simultaneously make fun of the original NYT piece for decrying extreme gentrification, and talk about solutions to the problem of gentrification…and end with saying both extreme gentrification and poverty should be acknowledged – but the original NYT piece was…[Read more]

I agree, phone call, to ask the musical question, “Are applicants who have previously applied invited to reapply?” Politeness and  non-judgemental-ness are important.  It is also possible they are really disorganized and just lost the previous stuff, didn’t meet some kind of deadline, forgot they had already advertised, had the hiring manager fi…[Read more]