This is an important book. Teachers should read it to place their pedagogy on a theoretical basis. Practitioners should read it to improve their design projects. Even now, too many landscape architects base their work on outdated Modernist principles. A …
Charles Waldheim Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory, review by Tom Turner Read more »
AGM/Study Session and Exhibition at MERL, University of Reading Saturday 19 March 2016. 10.00am to 5 pm Existing and new members all welcome The Study Session and Exhibition will focus on New Towns, Landscape and Gordon Patterson – Celebrating mid 20C Design …
FOLAR New Towns Landscape Study Day 19th March 2016 Read more »
Should house building be allowed on London’s Green Belt? Not yet. Building on brownfield land and densification are better options. But if we look further into the future, as did an advocate of landscape architecture in 1829, building on the …
House building on the London Green Belt: would a Grand Bargain make it possible? Read more »
A Dragon Garden is being made for the Druk White Lotus School in a part of Ladakh India which is often described as Little Tibet. The design work is being done by pro bono volunteers. The vidoes below describe (1) a 2015 …
Pro bono volunteer landscape architecture for the Dragon Garden in Ladakh Read more »
The LAA website provides an outline of the history of London open space and greenspace planning with free downloads of past examples. It is an important subject. But the lack of agreement the best name for this type of plan has resulted in conceptual confusion. Some of the names …
‘In all the industrial countries, rivers have suffered from forest clearance in the uplands, farm drainage in the lowlands and water-proofing in urban areas. Forest clearance took place on the hills, in the valleys and on the plains. This accelerated …
How landscape change causes flooding in towns and cities Read more »
[Note: there is a longer version of this video below, with more about the history and about the environmental roles of the London Green Belt] The London Metropolitan Green Belt is under threat from house builders, who prefer building on …
The Mayor of London launched a consultation on Sustainable Urban Drainage in 2015. Robert Holden and Tom Turner discuss the issues, in the above video, and make the following points: London needs an integrated water plan for surface water drainage, …
The landscape architects’ role in managing London’s flood problem Read more »
John Claudius Loudon’s 1829 proposal for ‘zones of country’, ‘breathing zones’ or ‘breathing places’ round London is the probable origin of Ebenezer Howard’s 1898 proposal for what became the London Metropolitan Green Belt, though there are older sources for the …
Green belts: the history & landscape architecture of a key planning idea Read more »
The above video questions whether Lancelot Brown one of the world’s great designers – as Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (from 1:17 in the video below) speaks of ‘Capability Brown who one of the great designers in the world without a doubt’. Since …
Lancelot Capability Brown 300th anniversary: an appraisal of his reputation Read more »
