Still, the obsession with lawns seems overwhelmingly a male prerogative, maybe the next big guy thing after smoking cigars and swilling martinis. Women already have other outlets for self-expression.
I think the obsession is over regular position. The over addiction is normally unreasonable.
I'm working over old ground. I'm lifted out, transported back to other lawns and the aura that rises from them. This lawn is thick with memories of every lawn I've ever cared for. And every lawn is marked with the footsteps of my father.''
In addition, one more representational meaning is about memory and experience with sentimental value about one’s reminiscence.
And in these money-spewing times, when grass is another commodity, fast grass beats slow grass by a mile. Most guys want lawns now.
In this business, it exists competition according to customer’s demand.
Doug Reed
''I've noticed with urban clients that the lawn plays an important role in their pursuit of a kind of idealized country living,'' he says.
I understand the lawn may be a representation about a ideal life. That is not real about lawn rather than thought. That mast connected with the culture.
At the Scott Company, the country's biggest producer of lawn fertilizer, sales have skyrocketed in three years, from $228 million to $442 million.
The company’s business volume increased too much from the lawn fans.
In the spring, Village Hardware, a narrow, 80-year-old store in Southport, Conn., was stacked to its tin ceiling with bags of Green Power fertilizer and moss-killing lime. The stack disappeared quickly. ''Sales were up big time from a few years ago,'' says Glenn Oesterle, the store's owner. ''Customers are looking for a better-looking lawn without spending a fortune. Also, a lot of people have gone back to buying fertilizers in the bag and doing it themselves because they're displeased with the lawn services.''
This shop has very special character. I think it can be use in other decoration.
Real lawn guys no longer call their lawn ''lawn,'' of course. ''If you're serious about your lawn, if you're an aficionado of grass, you refer to it as 'turf,' '' says Edmund Hollander, a landscape designer in Manhattan with clients in the Hamptons and other suburbs.
Actually, I still can not understand about the passion of lawn here. May be that is one type of hobbies.
CAN I walk on it?'' first-time visitors often ask Robert Esernio as they stare at his property in Mahopac, N.Y. There's no mistaking Mr. Esernio's lawn.
This is a very popular view. There are many different types functions as well structure. Mahopac has a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) library, featuring multiple reading rooms overlooking Lake Mahopac, abundant computers, a law library and conference rooms. The library is host to many public events including adult education, technology instruction, and yoga classes.
CAN I walk on it?'' first-time visitors often ask Robert Esernio as they stare at his property in Mahopac, N.Y. There's no mistaking Mr. Esernio's lawn. In a development of similar new houses with mostly burnt, brown lawns lumpy from the excavator's backhoe, his is the really green, rolling, luxuriant one, the one with mowing lines like straight brush strokes up and down a fine piece of suede.The question strikes Mr. Esernio as both absurd and entirely appropriate. ''Of course, they can walk on it,'' he says. ''It's a lawn.'' And yet this is more than a lawn. It's as nearly perfect an expanse of uniformly green turf as one is likely to find outside of England, and for the last seven years it has been his passion.
the man should be rich with a idea expected by most people.
Additionally, these statistics remain issues when there is still a gender pay gap.
The salary gap drives women feel less enthusiasm about the jobs.
As discussed earlier, the US design profession is not predominantly male— just over half of the profession is female— yet with celebrity designers so often male, the representation is primarily male.
This make female designers cannot be a leader in most case that making a decision or direction.
Jacqueline S. Casey
Another female designer does wonderful works. Jacqueline Casey has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the following:[6]
William J. Gunn Award, Creative Club of Boston. 1988. Honorary doctorate of fine arts, Massachusetts College of Art. 1990. Appointed by the late President Bartlett A. Giamatti of Yale University to the Visiting Committee of the Yale School of Graphic Design. Member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Lucinda Hitchcock
Actually, the gender distinction is unfair and unreasonable. i think modern society should consider the real ability not stereotype images. Hitchcock’s practice focuses on producing books and other printed material for such artistic and cultural institutions as the MFA Boston, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several independent publishers, including Godine and Chronicle Books. Her designs have won numerous awards, and her work has been showcased in Communication Arts, AIGA 50 Books, Print Magazine, Best of New England exhibitions and the American Association of University Presses’ “best of” shows and catalogues.
http://www.risd.edu/academics/graphic-design/faculty/Lucinda-Hitchcock/
The repercussions of constant, even mild, discordance can cause female designers like Victoria Rushton, a type designer at Font Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts, to feel there is extra work that must be done in order to prove their ability and their value as a colleague. “It’s just this little extra hurdle, you know?” she explains. “I know I have to make good work for clients and myself, but on top of that I feel the stubborn need to prove that I belong in this industry at all.”
Women are harder to prove their positions and abilities. Overall, gender-equality is required significantly to fix this problem.
Additionally, these statistics remain issues when there is still a gender pay gap.
The salary gap drives women feel less enthusiasm about the jobs.
As discussed earlier, the US design profession is not predominantly male— just over half of the profession is female— yet with celebrity designers so often male, the representation is primarily male.
This make female designers cannot be a leader in most case that making a decision or direction.
Presently, all road signs in Great Britain include her designs, an important contribution to the cultural landscape of England, but attempting to research this work and topic results in articles surrounding her partner, Jock Kinneir.
Lack of female representation in anthologies and survey publications and a propagation of blogs reinforcing strict ideas of gender make women ignored in the field and by the public.
In the US, some 70% of design students are female, yet their education is scattered with gaps. Teal Triggs and Sian Cook, of the Women’s Design + Research Unit in the UK, explain, “For far too long, history has either marginalised or excluded many women from being entered into the design history books and as a result, the design canon.
The most important issue to change this situation is the education. Students should be more confidence, though history has either marginalized or excluded many women from being entered into the design history books and as a result, the design canon. However, educators’ recognition is more necessary to female design students.
In the UK it is lower, although the Design Council research found that 70% of design students in the UK are women, but 60% of the industry is male.
The main reasons of this phenomenon are immense pressure placed on women, such as nurture families with more sinister pressures of socially-accepted sexism and segregation discouraging, or even disqualifying, the career ambitions of capable women, and some mores of old, underlying currents that flow through our design culture, such as wrong records mislead people.
The social revolution that Bazalgette offered London in the 19th Century, Cycle Space might just bring to London and our world’s cities in the 21st
I believe that the underground traffic way can be a trend in developing transport. While the scheme to bury the major road arteries does not create more road capacity, it does create more space for alternatives to car and bus travel, the mayor claims. Transport for London, the body he chairs, will begin detailed feasibility studies and cost-benefit analysis of the proposals. However, there also exists argument there about resolving primary problems. The way can be a middle passing and more developing.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3812452.ece
At the time, “Park + Jog” was treated as a curiosity; we still describe it as a “ utopian scheme.” But nowadays, it seems less and less fanciful.
It changed the messy urban life into regular and cycling function. The Junction at Goole is an example of a low budget, high impact scheme that creates a cultural and civic venue that is rooted in the spirit of the place. The reuse of existing buildings is creative, forging meaningful links with existing organisations and pepperpotting interventions throughout the urban fabric. In addition, the City of Culture is a fantastic opportunity for Hull to strengthen its burgeoning cultural scene with projects attune to the distinctive resonance of the city.
It envisioned a 1km stretch of dual carriageway between Salford University and Manchester city centre as a 4-lane linear Park.
However, I think it can be some problems. There is an argument that is inconvenience about people with much work or urgent things. It can add one car gallery for emergency situation. In daily life, it can be pay a little more because government is more willing residents to use public transport.
magine that the Boris Bike docking stations outside railway stations and in key public spaces might incorporate general cycle parking. Thus the Cycle City would bring with it a new building type – the multistory cycle park. Fietsenstalling, a multistorey cycle park outside Amsterdam’s Centraal rail station, with its Escher-like pattern of steel decks that suspend over the canal, is a dramatic model. Its very presence is didactic. It is persuasive.
The image ‘the multistory cycle park’ is very creative and useful. It not only save space, but also suggest people care more about that to accomplish cycling popularity. I also think the imagination about the comprehensive green commuter infrastructure is environmentally-friendly. It can encourage the principles of a healthy life style with traditional roads can raise land values, attract investment and activate the urban environment.
The day of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral at St.Paul’s Cathedral gave me an indication. For security reasons, much of the Square Mile was closed to vehicular traffic; the streets were preserved for the pedestrian and the cyclist. What I remember about that day was the sense of calm, how quiet it was, and how generous the streets actually felt. For a brief moment the public realm was uniquely different.
Whilst it may not be possible to ban the car outright, it ought to be possible to keep HGVs and delivery vans out during the day. I think it will be accomplished in more developed society. If we can not be limited in 2D or bridges about public transport, it will benefits more.
Cycling offers us, for the first time in more than a century and a half, the chance to build an infrastructure that will bring with it significant public health improvements. In our auto-centric world, we have unprecedented levels of health problems - obesity, diabetes, etc - all associated with our sedentary lifestyles. Cycling should mean a fitter population and a longer life expectancy, which would take pressure off the National Health Service and bring huge economic benefits. It would of course also reduce energy consumption.
Our sedentary lifestyles bring about variety of impacts. Nowadays, we have unprecedented levels of health problems such as obesity, diabetes, they have already been popular damaging daily life seriously. If we search in Google, there is 82,800,000 clauses about ‘obesity’. Also, there is 19,500,000 clauses about ‘diabetes’. Furthermore, regarding cars as basic transport will lead to air and noise pollution even more. Cycling reduces the most energy consumption significantly.
But it’s the work of Joseph Bazalgette, the chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, that stands out to me - not just for its contribution to public health but also for its potential parallels to Cycle Space.
If one city want to be cycle space, the first thing is to be healthy. Its contribution to public health is the fundamental guarantee. And then the city designers could think about energy cycle development and something like that. I understand that pollution can influence longer and more serious. How to deal with pollution is worth to consider.
Corbusian Modernism
About Le Corbusier, I searched some information in the internet. During War 2, he designed some apartments in Paris making a difference. This prompted the gradual gentrification of the remaining streets. What is the most important, indoor toilets were fitted The main principles are divided into 5 points. That can be thought and applied in today’s work. (the Pilotis, or pylon. The building is raised up on reinforced concrete pylons, which allows for free circulation on the ground level, and eliminates dark and damp parts of the house. The Roof Terrace. The sloping roof is replaced by a flat roof; the roof can be used as a garden, for promenades. sports or a swimming pool. The Free Plan. Load-bearing walls are replaced by a steel or reinforced concrete columns, so the interior can be freely designed, and interior walls can put anywhere, or left out entirely. . The structure of the building is not visible from the outside. The Ribbon Window. Since the walls do not support the house, the windows can run the entire length of the house, so all rooms can get equal light. The Free Facade. Since the building is supported by columns in the interior, the façade can be much lighter and more open, or made entirely of glass. There is no need for lintels or other structure around the windows.)