While i'm not actively updating the old L+U Blogspot page - i have migrated this over to a new URL that is being updated more regularly.
Visit: www.landscapeandurbanism.com
Thanks.
Jason King
While i'm not actively updating the old L+U Blogspot page - i have migrated this over to a new URL that is being updated more regularly.
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How appropriate to finish on a post from Frederick Law Olmsted - a man who constantly re-invented himself while 'inventing' the profession of landscape architecture. So in that spirit of re-invention - my time and focus has shifted to my growing business, my studies, and other pursuits both professional and personal.
Blogging has also changed - and the profession(s) have benefit from this for the most part... there's a whole new generation of folks out there talking, discussing, and elevating the profession of landscape architecture, the pursuit of vegitecture, and the quest for enlightened urbanism. I hope to do the same still, but in a different format - so i figure it is time to hang up the blog - 835 posts and 4.5 years later - for good this time. Consider it my Independence Day. I'm going to keep it visible, but not update anymore - as there's some good reading in there.
I hope you all have enjoyed it as much as i have. Keep in touch!
Jason
07/02/12
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In honor of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr's birthday today, April 26 (1822, so let's call it a round 190!), I would remind folks to go out and read more about the man in the great 2011 biography 'Genius of Place' by Justin Martin (Da Capo Press, 2011). Genius of Place traces Olmsted from his beginnings in 1822 up until his death in 1903. While most well known as the creator of Central Park and in some circles as the father of landscape architecture, it's telling that much of Olmsted's life was spent in pursuits aside from park-making and design - in areas of farming, public health, journalism and the literary arts. Martin does a solid job of showing the quirks and uncommon path that Olmsted took through his varied life - captured in the subtitle "Abolitionist, Conservationist, and Designer of Central Park".
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