“Park vs. Park“ in the Times. Actually quite good. As for the forest, go there when it’s hot — the temperature is 15 degrees cooler. Your breathing will change. You’ll find yourself speaking in hushed tones. The sounds are all birdsong and water, and the air is thick with the scent of lindens. At 146 acres, [...]
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“here is a hint of unbridled wildness”
Posted in Places, Toby's posts on July 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
completed by people
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged promenade plantee, Rowan Moore, where to sit, bad architecture on June 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rowan Moore, here: I’m told, by people who don’t suffer from the radical unmusicality which is my personal affliction, that in music pauses are as important as the notes. Something similar is true of architecture. The bits that are not there matter as much as those that are, as if buildings are only completed by [...]
landscape and crime
Posted in Toby's posts, tagged parkway, verge, tree lawn, wall street journal on June 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last week, Deb and I discussed “the New York Times‘s increasingly goofy treatment of landscape and horticulture, including their astonishing discovery of the tree lawn, aka the “parkway” (Illinois) or “verge” (Britain).” This week, it’s The Wall Street Journal that’s on the verge. In an article on the Dictionary of American Regional English, they write: It’s [...]
iPhone apps for landscape architects
Posted in Toby's posts, Working Landscape, tagged AutoStitch Panorama, Convertbot, iPhone apps, iPhone apps for architects, iPhone apps for landscape architects, iPhone apps for landscape architecture, My Measures on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m still getting used to the idea of my phone as a serious tool, but I find I’m using it more and more. Here are some apps I’ve come to rely on: . I was taking site measurements with Susan Opton when she showed me My Measures and Dimensions. My Measures doesn’t actually take the [...]
taking place in other places
Posted in Toby's posts, tagged aesthetics of joy, bobulate, places magazine, yale forestry on June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the list-making spirit of the moment, I’ve added four web sites to our “Sites We Like” blogroll, which lives on the right side of this page (scroll down). Below, I’ve linked below to some samples of what each of them does best: . Places was a one of the great design magazines. Without glitz [...]
Grist for the mill — landscape architects talk
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Toby's posts, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged ASLA, ISA, landscape, landscape architecture, LID Center, native plants, North End Parks, Rose Kennedy Greenway, spatial design, stone walls on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every now and again Toby and I get together at a local coffeehouse to talk about our practices and about landscape architectural issues in general. Conversation never lags — as we did when we worked together at Copley-Wolff, and over meals with other LA friends, and even before then, when we were both grad students [...]
a new rain garden at UMass Amherst
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Toby's posts on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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both/and
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plants, Toby's posts on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I should have known, of course. In a recent post on trees and pollen, I wrote: Bee-pollinated trees don’t bother to release the kind of pollen that makes you sneeze, and wind-pollinated plants don’t bother to attract bees. (There may be belt-and-suspenders plants out there that can be pollinated by wind but would like also to be pollinated by [...]
The Commissioner Weighs In
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Toby's posts, tagged adrian benape, allergies, new york city, new york times, thomas lee ogren, urban forest, wind-pollination on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote here that “a big tree does more to keep a city cool and clean than a small one does.” Adrian Benape, New York City’s parks and recreation commissioner, has the numbers. The first number is 102. New York, he says, plants “102 different unique cultivars and species of street trees in pursuit of [...]
a city without pollen, a city without oaks
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Questions, Toby's posts, tagged allergies, bees, honey, new york times, pollen, thomas lee ogren, urban forest, urban forester, wind-pollination on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Saturday the Times published two letters that responded to its recent op-ed piece by Thomas Lee Ogren on trees, pollen, and allergies. One reader, Christine Lehrer, wrote: Honeybees collect pollen from the very trees that are causing all the sneezing and runny noses. By taking a spoonful of honey daily, approaching and during allergy season, you [...]
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