Spring brings to mind many things, but for designers, developers and contractors it means landscaping. The
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Northwest's tempremental weather allows for an amazing variety of greenery with which to adorn building courtyards, public spaces and front yards, and the DJC's Landscape Northwest special section takes a look at the issues and economics of beautifying your next project.
This year's issue has stories about everything from Chinese gardening to hillside erosion to public art in parks. And, as always, there's the annual industry survey of Landscape Designers and Contractors.
- Claire Enlow, editor
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Building a landscape bridge to China
The Seattle Chinese Garden has begun providing educational and cultural benefits that will serve the Pacific Northwest in perpetuity even before it is built.
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The city opts to transform underused pavement into a scenic park
At Lake Washington Boulevard South and South Ferdinand Street, the north end of the parking lot is empty and decaying. The lot has been closed to both through car traffic and parking for the past three years. But soon, this well-placed but underused piece of (city) land will become an asset to the neighborhood.
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A millennium gift to the region: Unification of Sand Point Peninsula
In Februarys report to the Mayor and Seattle City Council from the Sand Point Blue Ribbon Committee, land is the highest priority. The first recommendation is to integrate Sand Point within Magnuson Park and begin the restoration of this expanded park as a millennium gift to the region a single bold proposal for immediate action to underscore our commitment to environmental restoration and stewardship.
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Hanging on to the hills
The weather is hard to control, but there are ways to keep the ground in place - even in the Northwest
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UW Bothell campus will be a study in wetlands biology
History is being made on the 127-acre site formerly known as the Truly farm, one of the last remaining bits of farmland near Bothell. It will soon be the site of the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Campus.
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The Italian garden as theater
The Italian garden is a theater for ideas and experiences regarding our relationship to nature. For centuries, gardens have been inspired by a diverse set of moral, poetic, social, and philosophical ideas.
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Going with the flow
A West Seattle neighborhood is looking way down stream at ways to recapture and preserve urban creeks as living ecosystems. With help from the city of Seattle and a dedicated design team, a rediscovered Longfellow Creek will be ready to showcase on the first Earth Day of the new millennium.
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Out of land use battles, a garden grows in Preston
When King County Executive Ron Sims and the county council recently announced the purchase of 22 acres of land for the Preston Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, it made the county a partner in a dream.
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Layers of landscape
Without management, landscapes that constitute a valuable regional legacy can be easily lost. Gardens can be destroyed by neglect.
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A hat full of honey and other keys to design
The visual system, more so than any of the other of our senses, has been streamlined by one evolutionary adaptation after another. And we humans tend to think visually, compared to most other animals...
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Public art in public parks
Artworks in many parts of the world survive to give us insight into the history of a culture. This is why we gain so much pleasure from our travels in other countries. The King County Public Art Program is doing its part to make life at home pleasurable as well.
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Time travel on the terrace
The Arthur Ross Terrace at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is designed to link the historic, traditional appearance and function of the museum with the gleaming materials and modern design of the New Rose Center for Earth and Space, designed by the Polshek Partnership of New York.
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1999 DJC Landscape Industry Survey
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