Last week I went to Shenzhen to meet with some potential clients for some urban design and landscape architecture projects. All went well and should hear some news soon. I saw some parts of Shenzhen on my trips to and from the airport and whilst sitting in my hotel room looking over Shenzhen. I lived [...]
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Asia,
Beijing,
Business,
China,
development,
landscape,
modernising,
people,
practice,
Shanghai,
Shenzhen,
theory,
urban design
Over the past two years with the Global Financial Crisis hit nearly every nation across the globe and as a result landscape architects where laid off in large numbers. This was hardest felt in the USA due to lack of work and collapse of the home building market.
Governments from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, China and [...]
New York Times recently published When Parks Must Rely on Private Money by DIANE CARDWELL concerning the struggles of cities to fund the construction and maintenance of parks throughout the USA. Many parks are funded through selling of land or revenues generated by carparks or taxes from new nearby developments and others are funded by [...]
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city park,
Construction,
development,
Landscape Architecture,
Local government,
Millennium Park,
Multi-storey car park,
New York Times,
private space,
Public space,
Residential area,
urban park
Susan Szenasy posted on Metropolis an article titled “United We Stand” in which she recalls some government officials giving encouragement at a recent NeoCon East annual trade show that there is “a new day for government design”. Szeasy goes on to talk about the importance to design of the recent $5.5 billion allocation to General [...]
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Africa,
AIA,
AILA,
ASLA,
China,
Climate change,
CSLA,
Environment,
General Services Administration,
India,
United States,
United States Department of Defense
