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Save Boston’s Greenway Gardens is a facebook page (here) and a web site (here) devoted to protecting and enhancing the three blocks of gardens on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.  (For more, look here and here and here too.)
Keep ‘em green!

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overlay, Paris

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overlay, Rome

at the Collosseum

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other colors

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more gold

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Before Paris had the Promenade Plantée, before New York had the High Line, Shelburne Falls had the Bridge of Flowers.

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slow bridge

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“Compression” isn’t a term often used to describe landscape spaces, but at the Turner Garden outside Rochester, New York, Fletcher Steele made an elliptical pool into an intensely compressed space.  The small pool opens to a terrace at one end and a vista at the other (with a narrow rill — again! — leading towards [...]

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Slope is simple, but slope is hard.  It’s a simple equation with elusive variables.  And it doesn’t help that landscape architects toss around up to four different conventions for describing slope — not even counting the most obvious one, angle, which makes sense on paper but is close to useless in the field.  It’s hard [...]

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In which y/x proves to be less than enough.
My previous post about the course I’m teaching, here, was all about immersion and experience.  Good stuff, but now that I’ve immersed my students, it falls to me to help them climb back out.
In “real life,” contour interpolation looks like that, but in real life, sadly, it [...]

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