Publishers are trained to ask ‘so who is your book aimed at?’ when considering a proposal. My usual thought, if not my answer, is ‘everyone’. Claire, I assume, gave a better-targeted answer: ‘practicing landscape architects’. This is good. The landscape…
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Thirlwall Claire, From Idea to Site: A project guide to creating better landscapes, book review
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Climate change mitigation through landscape planning
Podcast on climate change mitigation through landscape planning Landscape factors, both human and non-human, influence climate change and can be managed to mitigate adverse consequences. Human factors include agriculture, forestry, urbanisation, power generation and transport. Natural factors include changes in…
Posted in climate change mitigation, landscape planning
London Landscape Replacement Policy
Brexiteers have called for London to become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ and one aspect of this is very attractive. Singapore has seen itself as a Garden City for many years and it agreed a landscape replacement policy in 2009. LUSH 2.0 is…
The story of landscape architecture – podcasts
You can subscribe to the series on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic (+ other hosts) though the frequency podcasting is sure to be variable. The first podcast in the series tells the history of…
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Humphry Repton, public goods and the landscape architecture of golf
Repton, who was by far the most important landscape architecture theorist of the nineteenth century, used images (left, above) to make the case for opening the view of Brondesbury Park to the public. Malcolm Gladwell, in a Revisionist History podcast…
Posted in landscape architecture, public parks
Geoffrey Jellicoe’s landscape architectural design method
The video refers to important stages in the development of Jellicoe’s approach landscape architecture and design theory. You could see it as a progression from Renaissance to Modern to Postmodern. Or, like me, you take the view that his approach…
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Hal Moggridge lecture on Thursday 17 October 2019 in Cheltenham
Hal Moggridge is giving a lecture on his life and work, preceded by a short interview (by Ying Li). Thursday 17 October 2019 18:00 – 20:00 BST, Lecture Hall (Room: TC001), Francis Close Hall Campus, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ. Tickets from Eventbrite. Hal…
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Landscape architects support the call for cycling infrastructure and a National Cycling Protest
Landscape architects care about cycling for 3 main reasons: many of us are cyclists, because we know it’s the fastest, healthiest, most sustainable and most economical transport mode ever invented we all care about a creating good urban/rural environments, saving…
Posted in cycleways, London cycle network
Andrew Gilligan to be new government cycling adviser
Really good news, I hope. Andrew Gilligan is to join the Prime Minister’s team as transport adviser. Previously, Gilligan was Johnson’s cycling commissioner at the Greater London Authority GLA. His new duties must including cycling and I believe that, with…
40:1 Benefit:Cost ratio for cycling mass transport infrastructure
Summary of the benefits from investing £6.2bn/year in cycling infrastructure for bicycle mass transit (1) Every town in the UK will have a safe and segregated Cycleway Network of the kind being built, far too slowly, in London (2) The…
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