In China, government and developers are looking more and more towards tourism development to captialise on the growing market of middle class Chinese who travel across China on national holidays. They are seeking new places, different cultures, different food and new experiences to remember for years to come. The current developments they are visiting are […]
Changing landscape uses in China
Use of landscape and recreation is changing in China. Over the last few years I have been in China landscape uses have changed from passive uses(people watching, reading, singing & card/table games) with a some active uses(dancing, exercises, badminton & kite flying) to more and more different uses. There has been a great increase in […]
WLA #02 – Landscape Architecture Magazine – combining my two passions
I have recently set about publishing a quarterly landscape architecture magazine called WLA, after my website World Landscape Architecture. It is an interesting process with many hours of emailing, downloading, cross checking, proof reading, sending proofs and overall administration to publish a magazine whilst working full-time in Shanghai. Essentially I love creating the magazine as […]
Sustainable Landscape Architecture Part 1: Definition & Background
This is part 1 of 5 on Sustainable Landscape Design and my theories and ideas on the subject. My ideas have been heavily influenced by my reading, studying, editing of World Landscape Architecture and working with James Brearley at BAU, Jim Sinatra of Sinatra Murphy, Bruce Echberg at Urban Initiatives, various projects at Aspect Studios […]