OPINION PIECE: Gadi Amit – ‘American Design Schools Are a Mess, and Produce Weak Graduates’ at Fastco design
EVENT: ‘Dominique Perrault: Urban Landscape’ show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery until Dec 26
VIDEO: Playing in the Street – Smacking The Culture of Fear on the Nose posted by Copenhagenize
COMPETITION: Taichung Gateway Park International Design Competition
JOB: Qatar recently won the World Cup 2022 and needs to design and build the supporting infrastructure. So the call has gone out for Urban Designers. See the job listing for more information
IMAGE GALLERY: 10 Urban Spaces Around the World Reborn as Vibrant Green Parks (Slideshow) [treehugger]
CALL FOR PAPERS: Calls for Presentation Papers for ASLA 2011 Meeting Expo in November 2011 are due January 21
NEW BLOG: Land Perspectives by Alice Webb – owner of EarthDesign Landscape Architecture
BOOK : Topotek 1 Rosemarie Trockel (AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK)
NEWS FROM THIS WEEK
Charles Waldheim appointed Gardner Museum Announces New Curator Of Landscape [wbur.org]
Dead Coal Mine Pits Grow New Trees Without Human Assistance [Inhabitat]
Project Orange smokestacks to vanish from Syracuse skyline [syracuse.com]
Cookie-cutter cities don’t make good brands [Global Times]
Copenhagen to Build Bike Superhighway [Bicycling]
UNOPS and Arup partner to strengthen infrastructure capacity [ARUP]
Construction works tea house Leidsche Rijn Park have started [West 8]
