LA 1201 Lecture : LA 1201 Notes
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Profession: las are distinct from gardeners, landscapers, landscape contractors, and maintenance, a good design has to have directions on how to take care of it, a designs area then walks away. When they finish they have to wait and go look years later to see their finished project (time) Specialization: designer/builder- smaller projects, do everything in one spot; no second or third parties (no contractors, landscape design- detailed space design for residential, commercial, industrial areas. Involves sight analysis/ sight planning: urban planning- organizing towns; regional plans (like ones for louisiana after hurricanes) Las designed central park in nyc (first public park: frederick homstead designed it and coined name la, land development plan- designing new subdivisions, community design and planning, ecologic design- coastal restoration, historic preservation (1/28/09) Geography: geology- earth is constantly moving and reacting, climate- interacts with geology creating a crust or soil, enables earth to create plant life, cultural geography, physical geography, description and measurement geography.
