LAND Reader launch

Today we launch – LAND Reader – a new website that will provide the latest news,  books, products,  events and other information updates from across the web. LAND Reader will give updates from local to international built environment news to summaries of interesting topics. LAND Reader will be your weekly read for news about landscape architecture.

Why create another website when we have World Landscape Architect? World Landscape Architect has evolved from a blog, posting news articles; to a news website giving the latest design projects in rich images. As we read a vast amount of news daily from across the web and we sort to provide this information via twitter. However, we felt World Landscape Architect readers where missing out so we felt a new web space was needed and the reason for launching LAND Reader . World Landscape Architect is going to change over the coming months and will be moving to new home in 2011.

LAND Reader will be predominately text based so that people from across the world with varying access to the web (dial-up, broadband, mobile) will be able to be informed about landscape architecture. LAND Reader will also look at interesting topics and give a summary of resources so that readers can stay informed and today with the launch of the new site we give our first sample of a topic post with Landscape Urbanism vs New Urbanism.

If you have any tips or news that readers of LAND Reader would be interested in email [email protected]

Landscape Architecture in the News

James Corner’s master plan for Lake Ontario Park in limbo – Globe & Mail
“Once the parks are realized, Toronto will be indisputably a city connected to the lake, psychologically as well as literally. That can change the image and identity of a place,” he said. Toronto would be, in our own minds, a freshwater-ocean city.
Yet Mr. Corner’s plan lives only on paper. Read more…..

As Lansdowne plan evolves, experts’ optimism grows – Ottawa Citizen
Members of the review panel overseeing the design of the Lansdowne Park redevelopment were initially unimpressed by plans for the site. But now, as Don Butler reports, the trio is feeling positive about several elements of the project. Read more….

Common ground: Two new Miami Beach parks confirm landscape’s power to transport us – Miami Herald
Beth Dunlop looks at two recent designs for Miami Beach parks by Raymond Jungles and West 8.  Read More…

Landscape architects play key role in creating safe and functional spaces – Herald Tribune
“The licensure for landscape architects has nothing to do with making things look pretty,” continued Williams. “You are judged by whether you are competent to protect and enhance the health, safety and welfare of not only the people, but the environment.”
Read More….


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