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The Urban Event Planner: Jackson Heights Garden Tour, June 9 & 10
The problem for the Urban Planner is that there is nothing really to do in your free time. At some point, even the most downtrodden urban decay neighborhood is explored, the latest coffee place with a...
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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
Know Your Food, Know Your Farmers USDA Map Since 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has put a lot of funding towards local and regional food system infrastructure and support services. To show...
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Château de Chenonceau, France
The Château de Chenonceau located outside Tours, France is probably one of the smallest of chateaus in France, but what it lacks in size it makes up in its beautiful location. It spans the River Cher...
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Creative Little Garden – East Village, NY
Recently I was in the East Village and stumbled upon this beautiful little garden, tucked away between two five story buildings on East 6th Street (530 East 6 Street). This little slice of paradise is...
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Paradise as a Garden – Al-Hambra, Spain
In April of 2012, I was in Spain, driving through towns and cities. It was a journey I was planning for some time, the list of places to see was long; from Toledo to Alcazar in Seville, from Cordoba...
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Bosco Verticale: World’s Tallest Salad Platter
When I first looked at the renderings of Bosco Verticale, a residential building decked out with 900 trees including Oaks, and acres of shrubs, I was like “what! Are they serious?” And apparently they...
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The Divide Between Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Part I
The Western Tradition of Landscape Architecture: Recently, I came across Yale Professor and architect Joel Sander’s book, Ground Work. In it he discusses the divide between the architecture and...
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The Eastern Tradition of Landscape Architecture: Part II
Eastern Landscape Architecture Tradition: Part II This is the second part of a two-part series about the varied landscape architectural traditions of the Middle East and the West and the impacts of...
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Architecture of Love and Death (Part I)
This post is about funerary architecture of two different people in different times and places, ancient Egyptians and Muslim Mughals in India. Both of these people built great pieces of architecture...
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JERUSALEM: Sanctity of Jerusalem in Christianity
This is the second installment of the history of Jerusalem, the first part; Sanctity of Jerusalem in Judaism was posted earlier. The story of Jerusalem is closely tied to the history of the three...
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