Category Archive: editorial

SHIFT: process – Landscape Architecture Student Journal – Call for Submissions!

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North Carolina State University’s Student ASLA Chapter seeks submissions for it’s 2nd annual professional-reviewed landscape architecture student journal, SHIFT: process. Recognizing that students represent the next generation of leaders and design innovators, SHIFT… Continue reading

The Sweet Scent of Urban Renewal

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Bond No. 9 The World’s First Railroad Perfume. The scent of wildflowers, green grasses … and urban renewal. Anyone wish to douse themselves with the scent of a construction site? Or the Hudson… Continue reading

Protests & the Public Square – a note from an NCSU alum

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Hey All; Hope all is good back in NC. So I’m sure there has been discussion of this already in your courses, but in the midst of the upheaval and massive shifts taking… Continue reading

A Forgotten Treasure: The Raleigh Water Garden | Goodnight, Raleigh!

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I started out with only a Facebook status update and the vague directions “across from the Carmax on Glenwood” to go on. An hour and a half later, I found the Water Garden.… Continue reading

From Gene Bressler: Open Thank You Letter to Syme Raingarden Partcipants

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Department of Landscape Architecture Syme Hall Sustainable Rain Garden Ribbon Cutting “Soup to nuts” as Andy Fox often says. From project conception to yesterday’s public presentation – an exemplary educational experience for the… Continue reading

A New Metaphor: Urban Acupuncture?

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This past weekend at the NC ASLA conference keynote speaker Paul F. Morris, FASLA, in his presentation Active Living by Deign, spoke about the role landscape architects play in public health. Part of what… Continue reading

Walk-ability: Good neighborhoods have lots of intersections | Grist

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“A new study on Travel and the Built Environment by planning scholars Reid Ewing and Robert Cervero finds that “intersection density” is the single most important measurement for understanding what keeps folks out… Continue reading

0 for 208 – Hue Condos Close After Zero Sales

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After failing to sell even one of 208 units, the Hue Condominium building has closed.  Too bad, because despite the cheap looking material selections and  odd-for-Raleigh euro styling, I was rooting for its… Continue reading

At Harvard, landscape architects are reinventing the discipline – The Boston Globe

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At Harvard, landscape architects reinvent roles, link disciplines Landscape architects often used to be called in to plant a few trees or add a bench after a building was constructed. Now, they are… Continue reading

Personalization of Space | Self Expression in the Landscape

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Personalization of Space | Self Expression in the Landscape By Luke Wallenbeck As landscape architecture students we spend a lot of time designing at the master plan level. These large scale systems of… Continue reading