...On Friday, November 6th, Ryan Deane, Landscape Architect at The S/L.A/M Collaborative (SLAM) and ASLA chair will be moderating an education session titled “The LA Media Continuum: Projecting the Future of Our Profession” at the annual ASLA meeting and expo in Chicago. Deane will be moderating the session with panelists Daniel Tal, ASLA Principal Landscape Architect at Ambit3D in Lakewood, Colorado, Bradley Cantrell, ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architectural Technology at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts and David A. Rubin, ASLA, FAAR, Principal at LAND COLLECTIVE in Philadelphia. The ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO offers over 130 courses, allowing attendees to earn up to 21 professional development hours (PDHs). It is the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world to gain perspective and establish new connections within the profession....
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...(Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The most significant policy undertaken by a wide range of cities since World War II was that of urban renewal. Since 1954 urban renewal programs have changed the face of many downtown areas and displaced millions of low-income citizens. If there is anything to the "growth machine" hypothesis, the origins of this program at the national level, and the implementation of it in different cities, should reveal the guiding influence of the growth machine, for what these programs do is to clear downtown land of low-income housing and small buildings so that central business districts and such major institutions as universities and hospitals can be expanded and enhanced. Urban renewal has had a massive impact on the urban landscape and continues to the present day; urban renewal evolved into a policy based less on destruction and more on renovation and investment, and today is an integral part of many local governments, often combined with small and large business incentives. East Garfield area in Glendale, which is the third largest city and is located ten miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, is the region that is undergoing the revitalization. Glendale has a population of approximately 200,000 people in an area of 30.6 square mile (http://www.glendale.co.us). The City's population reflects an ethnic diversity common throughout Southern California with high concentrations of Armenian, Hispanic, and Korean...
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...Question 1 5 out of 5 points A term that is used to describe methods of construction using locally available resources and traditions is________________. Correct Answer: Correct Vernacular architecture. Question 2 5 out of 5 points One important part of L.I.D., or Low Impact Development, is: Correct Answer: Correct Providing ways to slow down stormwater. Question 3 5 out of 5 points Many parks are not large spaces. There are many small urban areas set aside for public use. These are generally referred to as: Correct Answer: Correct vest pocket parks Question 4 5 out of 5 points Site planning codes in municipalities usually require a project design to include_____________. Correct Answer: Correct provisions for stormwater control. Question 5 5 out of 5 points According to many studies, the only essential thing for a public park is: Correct Answer: Correct Space that people enjoy using. Question 6 5 out of 5 points Handicapped parking spaces are NOT required by law to: Correct Answer: Correct be located at intervals, both close and far, through out a parking lot. Question 7 5 out of 5 points One of the most significant things about the Seaside, Florida, development is that it______________. Correct Answer: Correct represents the beginning of New Urbanism. Question 8 5 out of 5 points Sustainability means meeting the needs of the present without _______. Correct Answer: Correct compromising the needs of the future. Question...
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...Chimney Rock is a great depiction of the American landscape, without any indication of civilization or settlement. The embroidery on fabric was strikingly done as the observer can see the disparity through her stitch work. One can notice complex threading modifications that appear to be a complicated task. Chimney Rock creates three-dimensionality to the multihued landscape as the threading adds an assortment of color and shading elements; Chimney Rock contains different shades of earth tones. Carol Shinn’s embroidery utilizes the basic elements of style to portray the American frontier that truly encapsulates what are nation used to be. Overall, Carol Shinn accomplished a salient reproduction of a natural setting. When viewing Chimney Rock the first thing the viewer should notice is the rocky landscape. In the background the viewer can make out distant mountains and flat mesa tops surrounding a desolate valley of green and brown tones. The sky in the background is a bright blue with not a cloud in sight. Carol Shinn creates an interesting natural aspect to the sky by making it a lighter blue as it touches the tops of the mountains and mesas in the background. As the viewer’s eyes are pulled to the middle ground of the piece the orange and red hills break up the foreground and background. These hills have desert shrubs, so hints of greenery contrast the shifting orange hills below. To the right the orange, sand-like hills shift into a towering mesa that has a shadow cast upon...
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...As the world’s population continues to grow, urban areas are consistently becoming more and more congested. Cities are getting not only denser, but they are beginning to sprawl out and are becoming these massive areas of impenetrable hardscapes. Because of this, a need for a new urban planning strategy is necessary to help make our cities become more livable, enjoyable, and sustainable. Landscape Urbanism, an innovative planning strategy to incorporate the natural environment into the city fabric may be just the solution. Landscape urbanism is unfortunately a newer perspective on how to organize an urban environment. Today too many cities have become concrete landscapes, where the occupants have little to no exposure to nature. We have become immune to providing our selves with what we think we need instead of what we actually need. Landscape urbanism design begins to provide that integration of nature with in the dense urban areas. “It would be equally fair to say that landscape urbanism remains the most promising alternative available to urban design’s formation for the coming decades.” Creating pockets of exposure to nature throughout a city, allows people to experience a healthier way of living both mentally and physically, while providing a sustainable alternative to urban design. For centuries we have been struggling to create the ultimate urban design. Several different design strategies have been combined and overlapped to make up our cities today. However, many of these...
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...Reachable only by boat or plane this island has a pitch perfect moment around every corner, hill, and door. It’s as if the gods’ themselves designed this sunny wonderland as a vacation home. With Intricate patterns of mountains, valleys, and vegetation that nearly engulfs the entirety of the land. Coastal scenery, and hill side villages that give off a 13th century appearance but the architecture perseveres the history but also gives has modernized manifestation. Valldemossa gave me an experience of a lifetime. Appealing to all senses- the history, landscape, and food played a roll into the experience The land of the heavens, also known as Valldemossa is put on par with the divines for many different reasons’. One, is the luxurious landscape- mountains emboss the earths crust giving the land characteristics, such as the haze grey mountains were an expressed feeling from the earth itself. Continuing on, the mountains towered in groups as if they’re standing a post, watching, and keeping guard for troubles that lurks along the ocean’s horizon. The luscious vegetation filled the landscape, and skirted the contour of the mountains- as if it was water filling the volume of the available space. Or better yet a Bernhardt page 2. blanket that covers the mountains and its surroundings keeping them warm through the winter season. Although its the winter season, when the temperature...
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...Ho ‘Oulu Landscape – Using Web 2.0 and Business Ties Dayle Simonson CMGT/554 - IT INFRASTRUCTURE March 30, 2014 Curtis Kanahele Ho ‘Oulu Landscape – Implementing Web 2.0 Technology As a recent landscape architecture graduate of the University of Hawaii, an entrepreneur plans on introducing "Ho ‘Oulu Landscape" as a start-up business in Oahu. Realizing that there are many landscape designers and companies that capitalize in this business, this architect comprehends that he must be on the cutting edge to get recognized and sell his services. He can boast of completing many "gratis" jobs while completing his degree, and his accolades are many; it is time to start profiting from the toils of his education and marketing his skills. Marketing requires not only business savvy, but also mandates that the businessman has a considerable amount of information technology acumen in his pocket or the where-to-all of how to secure it. Using Web 2.0 tools and monopolizing on his enterprise associates, including those strong, weak and potential ties will help this aspiring landscape architect compete in a business that incorporates landscape professionals as well as yard maintenance individuals who claim to have the skills this entrepreneur holds. This landscape architect places promotional signs in his completed jobs, passes out business cards regularly, and provides services to civic organizations focused on community beautification, in an effort to create a positive corporate...
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...BUS/475 Integrated Business Topics December 15, 2011 Strategic Plan - Part I: Conceptualizing a Business Land Forms Construction is a general engineering and landscape contractor located in Laguna Niguel, California. The company has been in business for over 21 years. The owners Jeff and Anna Tracy started out as a landscape contractor concentrating mainly on commercial projects in Southern California. The company expanded its services into Northern California and Arizona. In 2010, Jeff Tracy also added value to his company by acquiring a General Engineering license to add value to the services offered at Land Forms. Mission Statement Land Forms Constructions' mission is to provide the finest quality results in all that we do. It is our goal to undertake all projects with the attitude of 100% performance in all respects, including: 1. Safety of both the public and our employees and customers. 2. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations. 3. Quality of products and services. 4. Customer relations. It is our view that no project is successful unless our client is satisfied, the project was completed both on time and within budget, and the job has been built using the finest materials and methods so as to provide the maximum value to our customer. Sunburst Landscaping plants a landscape architect’s vision making a construction project come alive. For 34 years we have followed our mission statement of providing quality service to architects, general...
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...garden, a famous surviving example of which is the pagoda (25.19.43, 25.19.38) in Kew Gardens, London (1760). The chinoiserie proved to be an enduring phase in European garden art; up to the very end of the century, various books—notably William Chambers’s Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772) and Georges-Louis Le Rouge’s Jardins anglo-chinois (1776)—continued to be published on the subject. This growing vogue for the Orient resulted in the chinoiserie garden style, usually expressed by adding Chinese structures to the garden. The Early Landscape Garden: Classical Literature and Imagery Two additional important sources for the development of the more natural, informal garden-park were classical literature (Virgil) and the idyllic images of the Roman campagna depicted by the seventeenth-century French landscape painters Claude Lorrain (65.181.12) and Nicolas Poussin. Among the first to show inspiration from idealized landscape paintings and pastoral poetry were Chiswick House near London (by William Kent, 1725–29), Stourhead and Stowe (42.79.7) (by Charles Bridgeman), all incorporating Palladian pavilions or rustic structures to revive the mythic Arcadian fields and to underline the true "genius of the place" (Alexander Pope). Much frequented by foreigners,...
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...landscaping is "The process of making a garden or other piece of land more attractive by altering the existingdesign, adding ornamental features, and planting trees and shrubs." Landscaping creates a bridge between humanity and nature.Landscape provides a more comfortable environment for people also it makes our life easier as a matter of fact our world needs a specific order. We can examine the landscape in three sections to define a more detailed way.They are cultural landscaping, natural landscaping, landscape architecture. Initially,cultural landscaping is collaboration of nature and human.There are a lot of contributions from people.Cultural landscapes represent many eras of natural evolution with human efforts.They are part of our tradition.Obviously, they reflect our history and our pleasure. Natural architecture of the city is identified with the people's way of life.For development of the country, Goverment should subsidize to the environment also build economic and social structures for example cultivated terraces on lofty mountains and sacred places.There are a good deal of landscapes which representative of various contries. Upper Middle Rhine Valley which is in Germany is one of them.It has 65km-stretch.There are castels,historic towns and vineyards." It is intimately associated with history and legend and for centuries has exercised a powerful influence on writers, artists and composers." It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in June 2002.Furthermore...
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...The representation of Place within artworks throughout our history was caused by the search to understand the world and its roles. Throughout this time, many artists devised landscapes in a much different form to the usual accurate representations. Artists in the Post-Modern era have begun to investigate the relationship of memory, psychology and imagination to place and space. These landscapes differ greatly between artists, especially throughout different time periods. Three artists that take very different approaches to the idea of places and spaces are Joseph Mallord William Turner, Toba Khedoori and Jeffrey Smart. Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romanticist landscape painter whose work is often regarded as a Romantic...
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...1. What past forest management activities have lead to the unique landscape seen today at Shelburne Farms? The ice storm hurt the forest big time there for some management activities were focused on making sure the forest aspects can stand another storm like the ice storm more so than it did last time. And the landscape has changed due to water erosion and land movement. The hills make for the sugar lines to run smoother and quicker. On the other hand the steady land makes it easier to collect sap buckets. 2. How did the 1998 ice storm affect forestlands at Shelburne Farms? What kind of challenge does this type of natural disturbance present for forest managers? The 1998 ice storm affected the Shelburne Farms forestlands by destroying many trees and most things froze to where they broke. The sap had to stop flowing because the trees were so damaged and solid. The ground and landscape also could have been damaged as well. This kind of disturbance to the forest can prevent sales and even take time to rebuild the entire forest floor. 3. One major challenge facing forest managers and sugarbush owners in the northeast is deer overpopulation. How do deer affect the long-term management of a forestland? Sugar lines if any would be affected and possibly the buckets may be torn down. The deer also would eat the natural wild life around and bugs that are keeping the pests away. 4. In the Shelburne Farms management plan, the section on Harvest Systems is quite specific...
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...Austin Matheney Professor Witschi ENGL 2220 4th December 2014 Contrasting Landscapes in Bless Me, Ultima As the pages flip, and the story unfolds, the audience begins to notice that the landscapes in Bless Me, Ultima play a vital role in many different facets of the novel. Throughout the novel, there is an obvious dichotomy between the llano, the land of the main character’s father, and El Puerto de los Lunas, the land of the main character’s mother. As Antonio, who is the focus of the novel, grows older, he is forced to make a decision between the llano and the Luna. This decision is not based upon which land to dwell upon, but rather on which path Antonio should place his life: the dreams of his father or the dreams of his mother. Rudolfo Anaya, the author of the text, also utilizes other simple landscapes, such as the river and the pond, to aid in the coming of age of Antonio. Ultimately, Antonio must choose a path in life, and Anaya implements these different landscapes in order to exemplify Antonio’s struggle and development. The land of both Antonio’s father and of Antonio’s biggest inspiration, Ultima, is the llano; a beautiful landscape of rolling hills and dark plains. At first glance, this is all that the llano holds, but the llano is much more than just a beautiful piece of land to the vaqueros, to Ultima, and to Antonio’s father. The llano represents freedom and embodies the spirit of the vaqueros, or herdsmen, who are a group of people that Antonio’s father...
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...I do not support the EPA allowing DC Water to use Green Infrastructure (GI) to help meet its responsibilities for water quality improvements. Although implementing GI has tremendous environmental, social and economic benefits, DC Water’s proposal to use GI doesn’t adequately render GI as a viable option for the following reasons. The first reason the implementation of GI is unacceptable is because DC Water has failed to show that GI works. The Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) consent decree was signed in 2005. In 2014, DC Water proposed to amend LTCP to include green infrastructure. In this nine year period, DC water failed to demonstrate and provide site specific performance information on the Potomac and Rock Creek illustrating that GI can achieve equal or greater reductions of combined sewer overflows (“CSOs”) compared to building tunnels. Therefore utilizing $30 million dollars of the rate‐payers money to reduce the size of the Potomac’s tunnel and replace it with GI is a poor choice since DC Water has not proved its proposed GI would fulfil the same requirement as a large tunnel would. DC Water’s General Manager, George Hawkins’ power point presentation indicates DC Water has invested 10 million in GI projects such as tree plantings, rain gardens, green roofs, bioretention, etc., but the presentation lacks providing any significant data or measuring tool on how successful the projects have been while implementing GI. The second reason DC water should not use...
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...for any inconvenience this may have caused you. This was an unfortunate incident. I assure you we take our customer’s concerns very seriously and the matter is being addressed. I strongly believe this was an isolated incident, as it does not reflect values and professional work ethic that we here at Green Wave Landscaping dedicate our selves too. I am glad to inform you that we will be making full restitution for the services provided and for any damages caused during our visit. Our claims department will be contacting you to arrange for full compensation. We value you as a customer and hope you will reconsider doing business with us in the future. To show you our good faith we would like to offer you six months of free premium landscape service, to be provided at your convenience. We would also like to offer you a 10% discount on all future services provided to you and your clients. Let us continue to provide you with the professional services you were accustomed to receiving prior to this incident. Our customer’s satisfaction has always been and always will be our number one goal. Have a great day and we look forward to doing business with you in the future. Sincerely, JOSE F. PEREZ Jose F. Perez Operations...
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