by John W. Olson | May 6, 2011 | Landscape Architecture
One statement is made to all college students interested in the architecture or landscape architecture profession. That is that they will learn more in the first month of real experience on the job during an internship or their first year out of school that they...
by John W. Olson | May 4, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
Just about one year ago, I wrote an article about “Sprawl”. Yes, the word that just a few days ago that I said that should not be used. (See The Polarizing Buzz Words of Development) It was interesting to look back on the article a year later to see that my feelings...
by John W. Olson | May 2, 2011 | Events
Wow, last night was an eventful evening with the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden! Twitter was so busy with excitement that it appeared to have crashed a few times. I managed to ‘retweet’ the following which was a beautiful timeless quote by Mark Twain:...