A monthly roundup of the news, dispatches, and marginalia that caught our eye. The LAM staff dives into this month’s news and views in the first Queue of the year, including a vacant lot project in Detroit that could unite barbers and landscape contractors, Brazil’s hopeful rails-to-trails project, and a collection of short films about the environment. CATCHING UP WITH… […]
Month: January 2015
ONE MAN IS AN ISLAND
Barry Diller is a billionaire who has committed to underwriting the lion’s share of a $130 million plan for the construction of Pier 55, a 2.7-acre island of undulating parkland and performance venues that would rest atop mushroom-shaped pilings in New York City’s Hudson River Park. The city’s power brokers have enthusiastically endorsed the proposal, […]
Landscape Architect Interns
From University Landscape.
Landscape architect is a profession that involves planning and designing exterior landscape. Landscape architecture was not recognized as a unique profession until the early twentieth century. However, now it has been recognize as a distinct profession in developed nations like United States. Separate training programs are being conducted to provide assistance to landscape architects and one of them is a landscape architect summer internship program.
Landscape architect needs to complete bachelor or master degree in landscape architecture. Many employers recommend that prospective landscape architects complete at least one summer internship with any landscape architecture firm so that they can gain technical skills and daily operations in the field. Hence the main purpose of a landscape architect summer internship is to improve the skill and understandability of a landscape architect about how to satisfy clients, how to generate fees and so on.
GROWING PAINS
BY JONATHAN LERNER From the January 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. In exploding cities around the world, ever-increasing populations of the poor find themselves occupying dense makeshift settlements, or dangerously subdivided apartments, or massive, isolating housing estates. Official planning and development mechanisms seem unable to cope as cities expand in ways that are disorderly, unpredictable, and […]
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