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The Dirt 2008-08-27 14:05:00
Does the general public care whether their urban spaces have the elements landscape architects are taught to provide—seating and shade, for example, or plants? What I saw yesterday evening in Silver Spring, Maryland, an older “edge city” bordering Washington, D.C., made me have my doubts. Silver Spring hires landscape architects to design some of its outdoor spaces, and I’d heard that they …


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The Dirt 2008-08-27 14:05:00
Does the general public care whether their urban spaces have the elements landscape architects are taught to provide—seating and shade, for example, or plants? What I saw yesterday evening in Silver Spring, Maryland, an older “edge city” bordering Washington, D.C., made me have my doubts. Silver Spring hires landscape architects to design some of its outdoor spaces, and I’d heard that they …


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The Dirt 2008-08-25 17:30:00
I have just begun Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt and I'm already hooked. He thus far has tagged just about every bad driving habit I've ever adopted and puts the act of driving to work into frightening and fascinating perspective. Which leads me to think about the role landscape …


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The Dirt 2008-08-25 17:30:00
I have just begun Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt and I'm already hooked. He thus far has tagged just about every bad driving habit I've ever adopted and puts the act of driving to work into frightening and fascinating perspective. Which leads me to think about the role landscape …


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The Dirt 2008-08-25 17:30:00
I have just begun Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt and I'm already hooked. He thus far has tagged just about every bad driving habit I've ever adopted and puts the act of driving to work into frightening and fascinating perspective. Which leads me to think about the role landscape …


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The Dirt 2008-08-25 17:30:00
I have just begun Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt and I'm already hooked. He thus far has tagged just about every bad driving habit I've ever adopted and puts the act of driving to work into frightening and fascinating perspective. Which leads me to think about the role landscape …


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The Dirt 2008-08-20 19:46:00
A recent post to Plenty celebrates the next level of green building--adoption of practices that actually improve the environment. "The green building of the future," writes Lisa Salin Davis, "doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And …


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The Dirt 2008-08-20 19:46:00
A recent post to Plenty celebrates the next level of green building--adoption of practices that actually improve the environment. "The green building of the future," writes Lisa Salin Davis, "doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And …


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The Dirt 2008-08-20 19:46:00
A recent post to Plenty celebrates the next level of green building--adoption of practices that actually improve the environment. "The green building of the future," writes Lisa Salin Davis, "doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And …


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The Dirt 2008-08-20 19:46:00
A recent post to Plenty celebrates the next level of green building--adoption of practices that actually improve the environment. "The green building of the future," writes Lisa Salin Davis, "doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And …


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The Dirt 2008-07-29 16:02:00
Sad to say, I gave up my community garden this year after a couple of years of wonderful food raised under less-than-wonderful conditions. My schedule simply made it crazy to give it all the attention it deserved (and demanded). So I read with interest a recent blog entry on By design by Allison Arieff of The New York Times called "Grow Your Own." She …


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The Dirt 2008-07-29 16:02:00
Sad to say, I gave up my community garden this year after a couple of years of wonderful food raised under less-than-wonderful conditions. My schedule simply made it crazy to give it all the attention it deserved (and demanded). So I read with interest a recent blog entry on By Design by Allison Arieff of The New York Times called "Grow Your Own." She …


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The Dirt 2008-07-29 16:02:00
Sad to say, I gave up my community garden this year after a couple of years of wonderful food raised under less-than-wonderful conditions. My schedule simply made it crazy to give it all the attention it deserved (and demanded). So I read with interest a recent blog entry on By Design by Allison Arieff of The New York Times called "Grow Your Own." She …


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The Dirt 2008-07-29 16:02:00
Sad to say, I gave up my community garden this year after a couple of years of wonderful food raised under less-than-wonderful conditions. My schedule simply made it crazy to give it all the attention it deserved (and demanded). So I read with interest a recent blog entry on By Design by Allison Arieff of The New York Times called "Grow Your Own." She …


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The Dirt 2008-07-28 15:42:00
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, UCLA’s dean of social sciences wrote about the role of fountains on university campuses and the value they bring. However, he posed an interesting question: Ironically, fountains have become ubiquitous, albeit in lesser forms. Mass-produced, faux-Rococo fountains dot suburban yards and supermarkets. Desktop Zen pools spout water through bamboo colored plastic piping, keeping shiny marbles spinning. …


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The Dirt 2008-07-28 15:42:00
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, UCLA’s dean of social sciences wrote about the role of fountains on university campuses and the value they bring. However, he posed an interesting question: Ironically, fountains have become ubiquitous, albeit in lesser forms. Mass-produced, faux-Rococo fountains dot suburban yards and supermarkets. Desktop Zen pools spout water through bamboo colored plastic piping, keeping shiny marbles spinning. …


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The Dirt 2008-07-28 15:42:00
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, UCLA’s dean of social sciences wrote about the role of fountains on university campuses and the value they bring. However, he posed an interesting question: Ironically, fountains have become ubiquitous, albeit in lesser forms. Mass-produced, faux-Rococo fountains dot suburban yards and supermarkets. Desktop Zen pools spout water through bamboo colored plastic piping, keeping shiny marbles spinning. …


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The Dirt 2008-07-28 15:42:00
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, UCLA’s dean of social sciences wrote about the role of fountains on university campuses and the value they bring. However, he posed an interesting question: Ironically, fountains have become ubiquitous, albeit in lesser forms. Mass-produced, faux-Rococo fountains dot suburban yards and supermarkets. Desktop Zen pools spout water through bamboo colored plastic piping, keeping shiny marbles spinning. …


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The Dirt 2008-07-25 17:45:00
What does this transformed schoolyard have to do with making landscape architecture a more visible, more influential profession? By itself, probably not much. But suppose this schoolyard was part of a school-system-wide program for transforming most or all of the schoolyards in a large American city, and a landscape architect was the instigator of it all? Would that not give landscape …


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The Dirt 2008-07-25 17:45:00
What does this transformed schoolyard have to do with making landscape architecture a more visible, more influential profession? By itself, probably not much. But suppose this schoolyard was part of a school-system-wide program for transforming most or all of the schoolyards in a large American city, and a landscape architect was the instigator of it all? Would that not give landscape …


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