Quote of the Week - 2/26/10

"One of the great prospects for the 21st century is the continuation of currently tentative global trends towards preserving and building more livable, more sustainable communities. It means continuing to move away from the single-purpose, bits-and-pieces mind-set marking our current norms, to work with more integrative approaches to human settlements."

- William J. Johnson

Quote of the Week - 2/18/10

"Without question, urban sprawl - unplanned, scattered, and disruptive development bursting out from thus desolated cities into the open countryside. Precluding and remedying this phenomenon can and must be a central thrust of our future endeavors as a profession, for we are uniquely qualified to deal in a positive way with this increasingly evident problem."

- John Ormsbee Simonds

Internet Social Networks

Q? - LinkedIn, twitter, facebook,... are you part of a social network and what do you think is the next big things?

Quote of the Week - 2/12/10

“What artist so noble...as he who, with far-reaching conception of beauty, in designing power, sketches the outlines, writes the colors, and directs the shadows of a picture so great that Nature shall be employed upon it for generations, before the work he arranged for her shall realize his intentions.”

- Frederick Law Olmsted

Professional magazines

Q? - Professional magazines – How many do you get and do you actually have time to read each of them?

Quote of the Week - 2/4/10

“I have found it helpful to think of a garden as sculpture. Not sculpture in the ordinary sense of an object to be viewed. But sculpture that is large enough and perforated enough to walk through. And open enough to present no barrier to movement, and broken enough to guide the experience which is essentially a communion with the sky.”

- James Rose

The Sustainable Site Initiative

Q? - Thoughts on ASLA's Sustainable Site Initiative – Do you think it should be a separate document or part of LEED?