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 y se distinguen claramente del entramado urbano, que es característicamente más bidimensional. Los espacios habitadosContinue reading “Paisajes Lineales”
Category Archives: Landscape Architecture
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 area of ongoing research that still needs significant work. Recommended technical specifications for the soils,Continue reading “Recommended Species for Green Infrastructure in the Caribbean”
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 their environment for their own survival, prosperity and enjoyment – definitely predates the construction ofContinue reading “Nature working for the city: Perspectives on ecological urbanism”
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 supervivencia, prosperidad y disfrute es definitivamente anterior a la construcción de edificios y encierra enContinue reading “La naturaleza haciendo trabajo en la ciudad: perspectivas para la ciudad ecológica.”
Landscape as Planes of Continuity
Landscape can be conceived as a series of continuing planes in space and time. Discontinuities or wrinkles in continuity might be found, but there is always at least one plane in which there is continuity in the landscape. The work of the landscape architect is to modulate those planes of continuity and discontinuity to transmitContinue reading “Landscape as Planes of Continuity”
New Book on Green Infrastructure
The book “Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design” will be published in December 2014 by Routledge/CRC Press, London. It provides a fresh look at green infrastructure from the perspective of landscape architecture. Contributors come from all corners of the globe and the editors are members of the landscape architecture faculty at the TechnologicalContinue reading “New Book on Green Infrastructure”
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