Following his brilliant book on Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site, Edward Hutchison has opened an even more dazzling exhibition of watercolour painting – at Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton Street London SE1 9JH, by Tate Modern Exhibition 4th – …
Cambridge requires a study to compare the costs and benefits of cycleway networks with those of guided busway networks. Generally: Transport planners favour busways and do not to treat cycling is a serious mass transit mode. Landscape architects believe that when …
Cambridge Guided Busway & Cycleway Benefit Cost Analysis Read more →
There have been three four main phases in London Cycle Network Planning 1930s: segregated cycle lanes beside new arterial roads Leslie Hore-Belisha was an innovative Minister of Transport, remembered for introducing pedestrian crossings, a 30 MPH speed limit in built …
The history of cycle network infrastructure planning in London Read more →
In church, a recessional is a hymn or piece of music accompanying the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry, at the close of a service. The term is also used for the music after …
Kipling’s Recessional & the Stop Killing Cyclists 2013 TfL Die-in Read more →
Lecture by Tom Turner on 23rd April 2018, the LI London Branch The Landscape Urbanism Design Method should be applied to the problem of giving London the Cycleway Network it deserves: for getting from A-to-B, the aim should be to …
Does London have a better place for a game of chess than the University of Greenwich’s Stockwell Street roof garden? If so, please tell me about it. While smelling the sweet scents of spring flowers, you can pick mint, gaze …
Playing chess on the Stockwell Street University of Greenwich roof garden Read more →
On Wednesday 21st February, Hal Moggridge lectured to the London Branch of the Landscape Institute on the theme of his 2017 book Slow Growth: On the Art of Landscape Architecture. A Wikipedia article explains that Slow Food is ‘an organization …
Hal Moggridge lecture: Slow Growth: On the Art of Landscape Architecture Read more →
‘Desire line’ is one of landscape architecture’s most useful concepts. Less romantically, Wikipedia calls it a ‘desire path’ and explains the idea as ‘ the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination’. OK, but as everyone …
Desire Lines are a key principle in landscape architecture Read more →
FOLAR organised a really excellent symposium on 14 April 2018, at MERL in Reading. Videos of the seven speakers are below. I plan to comment in more detail but, for the moment, only emphasise a point made the President of …
A new agricultural landscape for the UK, post-Brexit – 2018 FOLAR Symposium Day Read more →
Ian McHarg was born on Clydeside and became the most famous landscape architect of the 20th century. The importance of Clydebank in the development of his Design with Nature philosophy is explained in McHarg’s last book: A Quest for Life: An …
Ian McHarg’s boyhood in Glasgow, Clydebank and Craigallian Loch Read more →
