Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Landscape

Landscape is not just plants and outdoor spaces, but air, sky, and earth. (Haha, sounds like Captain Planet.)

Landscape is the in-between spaces. Landscape is the built and natural environments. Lanscape is weather patterns and the unique qualities of a city. There are levels of landscape, I think, that begin to shape for us the differences between urban and rural.
In nature, there is NATURE. In the built, there is edges, boundaries, nodes, etc. If it wasn't for the built, we wouldn't have more definitions added to how we interact with our environment. Also, these "definitions" is what makes each geographical location unique. If we preserve anything in cities and countrysides, we should preserve their uniqueness.

 
joshspear.com

landscape-photo.net
meetup.com

 
  
 

The French Alps (!!!!!)

We fly all over the world to see this uniqueness. We live around the good, the bad, the ugly. It IS our daily lives, it IS life. (I'm sooo poetic, lol) But it's what makes us find our identity. So many other people talk about landscape based on what landscape they identify with!

We need to find ourselves getting jobs that help improve our communities not our egos. That may sound like a pretty harsh statement, but I am a huge believer in community first, then ourselves. With our attention pointing to our landscape as a showcase, you see more occupations that have to do with technology then those that promote local business success. Like James Howard Kunstler says, "The days of the 3, 000 mile caeser salad is coming to an end!"
To elaborate on this idea, James Howard Kunstler says it best. Watch this link where Kunstler talks about "dissecting suburbia!"

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