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Is Landscape Architecture No Longer "The Good Wife"?
Mar 12, 2012
Good news for landscape architects: your employment prospects are better than those of building architects and your work is appreciated more than ever - think of the High Line.
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City Shaping V: Can Philanthropy for Boston's Parks Break Through the Grass Ceiling?
Jan 31, 2012
Entrepreneurial public-private partnerships and some deep-pocketed donors are pumping new life into New York and Philadelphia civic spaces - what about Boston?
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2011's 10 Notable Developments in Landscape Architecture
Dec 22, 2011
The year-end list-o-mania and the email carpet-bombing of "Best" "Worst" "Top Ten" lists, etc. strained our global server capacity.
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City Shaping IV: Can Target Right What Minneapolis Is About to Ruin?
Oct 25, 2011
Excitement has turned to disappointment in Minneapolis, and what's happening there should be a warning about safeguarding transparency in public process and civic debate.
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To Be Real... You've Got to Be Real
Oct 7, 2011
If you think disco diva Cheryl Lynn is about to pop up and start singing "... to be real" everywhere you go, it's probably because the concept of authenticity is now almost ubiquitous.
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City Shaping III: The Philadelphia Story
Sep 14, 2011
The transformation of the urban core, as I've written before, is hot, hot, hot.
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Dear Architecture Criticism: Evolve Already!
Jul 18, 2011
There's good news and bad news for landscape architecture.
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Nostalgia 2.0: Has Historic Preservation Become a Spectator Sport?
Jun 23, 2011
Nostalgia is suddenly under siege - particularly in the guise of historic preservation.
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Tree Hugging is Back in Style
Apr 1, 2011
Last week saw the passing of a distinct American icon -- it wasn't a movie star, stage actor, trusted political confidant or mysterious artist -- it was an elm tree in Brookline, MA.
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The Value of View
Mar 14, 2011
 When it comes wowing an audience, few can touch Frederic Edwin Church, the grand master 19th century Hudson River School painter whose jaw-dropping landscape panoramas rank among the nation’s great cultural icons.
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