Tag Archives: ecology
Human Culture and Nature: Making the Relationship Work
Based on a lecture given at CAAPPR on 13 April 2022, as part of the celebration of World Landscape Architecture Month Culture and nature have been portrayed as contradictory or in conflict throughout many expressions of the Western tradition. From … Continue reading
Paisajes Lineales
Los paisajes lineales son ambientes humanos que han estado históricamente influenciados por límites naturales muy fuertes o por vías de comunicación únicas (o pioneras), o por ambas circunstancias. En Puerto Rico los paisajes lineales son fenómenos tanto costeros como montunos … Continue reading
Recommended Species for Green Infrastructure in the Caribbean
The work described herein produced a list of 87 species recommended for use in the design of rain gardens, bioswales, and bioretention cells in the Caribbean Islands. Plant palette selection for green infrastructure projects in the world tropics is an … Continue reading
Nature working for the city: Perspectives on ecological urbanism
Landscape architecture as an occupation, and later as a profession, has only 300 years of history; as a particular human activity, though, it essentially dates back to the emergence of humanity itself. This activity of human beings – to change … Continue reading
La naturaleza haciendo trabajo en la ciudad: perspectivas para la ciudad ecológica.
La arquitectura paisajista como oficio, y luego como profesión, tiene apenas 300 años de historia, pero como actividad humana se remonta esencialmente al surgimiento mismo de la humanidad. Esta actividad del ser humano de modificar su ambiente para su propia … Continue reading
Molecular Landscape Architecture (Paisajismo Molecular)
To Richard T. T. Forman, with great admiration and respect. Even though during the last 200 years the visual aspects of the design and construction of landscape have predominated, that definitively had not been the case during the rest of … Continue reading
Flights of the Mind 