Pond Hockey

For those of us who grew up in the great white north, over pronounced any word with an OU in it and ended sentences with “eh?”, this is how it started.  Sometimes it was a flat back yard that your Grandfather, Uncle or Dad would hose down.  Sometimes it was the local river, [...]

Old New Books

I have always found it interesting that Design and Planning initiatives such as “Living Streets”, “Complete Streets”, “Walkable Communities”, “Transit Oriented Design” and the big one “Sustainable Design” are often discussed in the context of being a new approach.  So new that those of us in the Landscape Architecture profession have taken to [...]

Portfolio Recommendations for Recent Graduates

You just graduated from school, exhausted by the final rush to complete your last projects.  You survived the final jury and you now stand proudly with your diploma, a graduate in Landscape Architecture.  Now, it is time to get out there…find a lucrative job with the most hip, up-and-coming, design savvy firm in [...]