Comments on: Corner, Hargreaves, and Van Valkenburgh at the Forum for Urban Design http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/ Connecting the Built & Natural Environments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: fluellept http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-974 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:53:16 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-974 Hey all just intorduceing myself! Hope to become a nice member of the community soon enough!

]]> By: KerErefOrew http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-465 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:22:32 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-465 What’s up, is there anybody else here?
If there are any real people here looking to network, leave me a post.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

See ya,

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-287 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:40:54 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-287 With the widespread use of the new whiz-bang computer aided design and graphics, there is a real tendency for designers to jump wildly into flights of improbable financial cost and equally spacey design. Having participated last year in the Trust for Public Space’s Grand Army Plaza Design Competition, I was struck how every one of the winners both subsumed the historic landscape in a carapace of swooping mega structure and created solutions that would find the Sultan of an oil rich country hard pressed for cash. These competitions are admittedly for “big ideas” but one wonders if a little more pragmatism might see the public feel more inclined to push for the kinds of urban park corridors we need to be implementing.

There is an emerging strength to the movement of adaptive greening within our cities, as well as preserving larger landscapes and while it has run head-on into financial straits, the work of these landscape architects will hopefully keep the movement alive and well. Thanks and congrats to all of them.

]]> By: tera1320 http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-209 Wed, 20 May 2009 18:31:24 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-209 Good Job!!!

More Info.

]]> By: poltrackt http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-208 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:24:52 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-208 An answer or two from ASLA: For the record, landscape architects are, in fact, part of this Forum on Urban Design, and James Corner, ASLA, sits on its board. He and other leading landscape architects were also featured in a keynote session at the 2008 ASLA meeting, and there are a number of programs planned for the 2009 meeting that are similar. We are thrilled to see the profession engaged in public discussion at such a high level, and we applaud the Forum for providing such an opportunity. ASLA issues an annual Call for Presentations each year and anyone interested in proposing a program may submit one for consideration. We urge anyone interested in pursuing a particular topic to do so.

]]> By: Grant Anderson http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-207 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:34:03 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-207 This had to be the most profound public debate among professional landscape architects discussing public parks since Olmsted & Vaux won the commission for Central Park. I attended both evenings. Combined, both panels gave an elaborate view of the public process every new park facility goes through. The panels covered public design, funding, maintenance, public input, political process, even dinner conversations with people opposed to a new park!

Congratulations to the Forum for Urban Design for an excellent program. Too bad the New York State Board for Landscape Architecture won’t give continuing education credit for this event, primarly because the F.U.D. isn’t an approved education provider (it’s not a school).

The other question is why isn’t the ASLA sponsoring events like this? Why did an organization composed of developers, architects and urban planners sponsor this discussion? this type of panel wasn’t even at the ASLA annual conference.

]]> By: 21st Century Parks Conference debrief « Freshkills Park Blog http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-204 Fri, 15 May 2009 15:39:29 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-204 [...] ASLA’s blog The Dirt has posted a brief summary of that discussion here. [...]

]]> By: martin http://dirt.asla.org/2009/05/14/corner-hargreaves-and-van-valkenburgh-at-the-forum-for-urban-design/#comment-201 Thu, 14 May 2009 18:14:06 +0000 http://dirt.asla.org/?p=1915#comment-201 LAM should make The Dirt posts available to share/post on social networks.

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