Patrick Geddes was more of a Landscape Architect than a Town Planner Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, landscape architect and town planner. His approach to cities and landscapes was closer to contemporary landscape architecture than to contemporary town …
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A theory about the use of native and exotic plants in garden and landscape design The Gardenesque Style was launched by John Claudius Loudon in 1832 and explained at length in 1834. At this time the basic idea was to …
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John Claudius Loudon was the pioneer Without Loudon, the landscape architecture profession would not have its current name or its current social, technical and artistic focus. These characteristics can be analysed as follows: The social dimension of landscape architecture Socially, …
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Grandpa of Landscape Architecture The Claudians is available for pre-order and will be published on 1st December 2024, on Amazon Kindle. Before this date you can buy it for £2.99 – a 25% discount on the published price. Or if you would …
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Terrain Talks 005: Waste Mapping Design Resources: Found, Discarded & Regenerative 7.00pm Thursday October 19th 2023 at Falmouth University (Woodlane Campus) (Bar + doors open at 6.30pm) BUY TICKETS HERE We invite you to join us for an evening event which …
6:30pm Thursday September 7th 2023 at Jubliee Hall in Chagford, Newton Abbott, Devon TQ13 8DP BUY TICKETS HERE The first lecture in the RESOURCE series – is based on the theme of water. In particular, the detrimental impact of historic …
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Why didn’t Brodie McAllister become President of the Landscape Institute in 2022? On 28th June 2022 it looked as though the Board and Council of the LI had undemocratically removed President Elect Brodie McAllistair. Six past Presidents wrote to the …
This is the worst crisis in the 93-year history of the UK Landscape Institute. Please see this page for a set of Videos about the Landscape Institute Crisis and this page to see why 6 Past Presidents are so strongly …
I’ve been making a set of 10+ videos to consider whether landscape architecture is a fine art and how it relates to land art, environmental art, ecological art etc. The videos will include debates, interviews, discussions and soliloquies. At least …
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Cycle network and route planning, as discussed, should be based on supply and demand. Cycle planners need to know where cyclists want to ride and they need to know what routes are feasible. The best available data on actual usage, …
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