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Sustainability  |  08/11/2015
Performance Landscapes
Performance Landscapes – Putting Sustainability to Work in Resort Design The resort industry, traditionally a realm for escape and indulgence, is slowly but surely accommodating a more complex spectrum of consumer desires. As climate change and environmental concerns grow, increasing numbers of vacationers are seeking restorative leisure time that sends them home with a lighter,…
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Industry Trends  |  08/04/2015
An Argument For Renaming Landscape Architecture
Is It Time For A Nomenclature Shift: An Argument For Renaming Landscape Architecture Perhaps this is simply a pet peeve, but I know that it is a pet peeve of many in the field.  It is an unfortunately common occurrence in which I have been mistaken for a landscaper after trying, in vain, to explain…
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Industry Trends  |  07/28/2015
Light in the Garden Exhibit
This post is about my recent trip to Atlanta Botanical Gardens to visit the Light in the Garden exhibit by Bruce Munro. As a new transplant to Atlanta from Colorado, ABG is my first local membership. Luckily that came in handy for member tickets to the exhibit which I plan to take advantage of again…
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Industry Trends  |  07/21/2015
Boulder’s First Parklet
A Design Competition for Boulder’s Parklet on The Hill In the Spring of 2014, the City of Boulder, CO organized its first ever design competition to design and build a parklet. What exactly is a parklet? A parklet is a miniature, often temporary, park that replaces one to two parking spaces on the street and…
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Resorts  |  07/10/2015
Apposite Approach
An Apposite Approach to Resorts While attempting to define authentic, I came across the word “apposite”.  I believe it uniquely defines the emerging efforts to depict the soul of a resort.  It’s the desire of owners, operators and visitors to experience the resort in a way that is “highly pertinent and/or appropriate” to the environment…
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Sustainability  |  07/06/2015
Water Wise Landscaping
Water-Wise Landscaping For All Regions Water as a scarce resource isn’t news, but we’re hearing about it more of the time and in more places. We’ll continue to. While regions differ (here in Colorado, we’ve had our wettest year in 10 while California, New Mexico, and Texas are still sitting in drought), water conservation has…
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Amenities  |  07/04/2015
Centerra Lake Club
Centerra Lake Club The residential Master-Planned Community is making a comeback.  But some things have changed since the heyday of past decades as many of today’s buyers are more discerning when evaluating what a master-planned community has to offer – especially when it comes to the amenities that they will be paying for through their…
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