There’s an interesting article by Charles Crawford of LDA Design in the current 19 August 2015 issue of Rail. This summarizes elements of the HS2 Design Vision. HS2 being the high speed railway from London to Birmingham and to Manchester …
Poundbury. Poundbury is an urban extension to the Dorset town of Dorchester, a sort of garden suburb. It is sited to the west of Dorchester. The planned population is 5,000 and it forms a significant extension to the town. Dorchester …
Caption: An image of a traffic free Oxford Street from one of Labour’s 2016 Mayoral candidates, Christian Wolmar. David Carslaw’s paper at the June 2014 London Air Quality Network …
Landscape architecture books, magazines and websites Introductions for students and applicants to landscape courses The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture, Tim Waterman Bloombury; 2015 Landscape Architecture: An Introduction Robert Holden and Jamie Liversedge Laurence King; 2014 Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, Ian Thompson …
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May I contribute a version (taken from chapter 1 of the book written jointly with Jamie Liversedge Landscape Architecture, an introduction [2014]) which overlaps, but also extends the ground, covered by Tom Turner? Aesthetics + Horticulture + Ecology + Sustainability …
The Evening Standard (3.7.2015, above) comments that ‘In the course of that contest the two cities have sought advantage on every possible measure. London usually lost out on the height of its buildings but gained on street-level hipness. Their restaurants …
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What can we learn about the work of London landscape architects from Google? My impression is that the results from an image search are ‘more organic’ the results from a text search, because it is far less commercialised. The returns …
The London Branch of the UK Landscape Institute made these London_2050_green_infrastructure_2014_landscape_comment.pdf recommendations: SUMMARY of LI London Branch Recommendations 1. Make it clear that the principles of green infrastructure planning apply to the whole of London, not only to vegetated ‘greenspace’. …
