Writing the Garden

  • A Speech on the Subject to Combatting Climate Change through the Preservation Green Historic Places.

    How, if possible, do we establish proactive protocols for control of the effects of climate change by the custodians and community supporters of green landscapes in the public domain? Here I have felt it necessary to air my thoughts on the subject in a journal entry that holds up to the eyes of the civic and citizen stewards of other protected green public places the example of the Central Park Conservancy in practicing and promoting the kind of management and education protocols associated with fulfillment of the ideal of climate-change remediation.

  • A Beginner’s Education in the History and Landscape Design of Central Park: Part Two

    When we speak of the meaning of place in human life, how do we describe what we might call “placeness?” Through our five senses we experience the salient characteristics of landscapes; by on-site signage and personal investigation we determine the uses of certain places, and through books we learn how to classify the agents of the sensory experiences of up-close vision, smell, hearing, and touch as well as the historic facts, natural endowments, and design intentions that account for individual place identities. Join me in again approaching Central Park through recently rediscovered books that I have taken off the shelf in my library dedicated to this purpose.