• Was the Aral Sea one of ‘nature’s mistakes’, or was it the scene of an environmental crime?

    Updated: 2012-07-23 05:25:44
    The left photo shows, I think, the Aral Sea as it was last week. Wiki reports that ‘Soviet experts apparently considered the Aral to be “nature’s error”… [So] ‘From 1960 to 1998, the sea’s surface area shrank by approximately 60%, and its volume by 80%. In 1960, the Aral Sea had been the world’s fourth-largest [...]

  • The placement of Buddhist stupas as landscape architecture

    Updated: 2012-07-15 12:12:00
    Having wondered for some time whether the design and siting of the pyramids at Giza was conceived as a ‘stylization’ of sand dunes on the boundary between the Red Land (desert) and the Black Land (farmed land), I timidly kept the idea to myself until Charles Jencks put forward the same idea. Now I wonder [...]

  • Should marijuana be grown in Uruguay’s gardens and parks?

    Updated: 2012-07-13 06:13:41
    The muscular men on the left appear confident of their own virtue. The young man on the right has the diffident sensitivity of a poet, wondering if drugs should be legalised. Uruguay, it has been announced, has decided to make marijuana a state enterprise. The government will grow marijuana and sell marijuana. Their aim is [...]

  • Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens to be restored

    Updated: 2012-07-08 19:54:17
    We contributed to the shaming of Dacorum Borough Council and thus to its decision to restore Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe’s design for the Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead. See blog post: Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens are a National Disgrace. HTA Landscape Design has been appointed by Dacorum Borough Council to restore the the gardens. I [...]

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