Publishing a Magazine
I have been publishing a magazine (WLA) for the last 6 years it has been a labour of love. There is no money in self-publishing especially in the field of landscape architecture which is a niche of a...
View ArticleDeep Learning is set to help herbariums identify more plant species
Herbariums around the world have large collections of sample sheets with dried plants pressed ready for taxonomists to annotate, classify. This process often takes time and many herbariums don’t have...
View ArticleDesign regulations against terrorism – a catalyst for change
Over the last year there have been several terrorist incidents that have seen the loss of life in our cities and due to this acts we have seen governments have turned to security experts, police...
View ArticleNew media requires respect like old media
I am finding it more interesting that design firms who wish to have articles published on my blog – World Landscape Architecture think because it is new media and it is digital blog that they can ask...
View ArticleLaunching the WLA Awards
I recently just launched the WLA Awards, in its second year. The first year was a learning curve and I hope that the coming awards will be as successful as the 2017 Awards. I am lucky that I have again...
View ArticleWorld Landscape Architecture – 10 years on and the end of WLA Magazine
In October 2007, I was browsing architecture sites like Archdaily and found myself wondering why do landscape architects not have an independent blog for information and news. That day I registered the...
View ArticleWhy are countries creating their own cryptocurrencies?
Over the last few months, we have seen countries creating or preparing to make cryptocurrencies including China, Ecuador, Senegal, Estonia, Russia. The reason that countries are looking at...
View ArticleCreating a BIM Project Plan or a BIM Execution Plan
BIM (Building Information Modelling) gives designers the ability to share data-rich designs in a 2D or 3D format with clients, consultants, contractors, facilities managers and more. The recent trend...
View ArticleMicroplastic pollution in soils is out of control
We have recently seen an increasing number of news stories about plastic pollution, an ocean full of plastic bags, scenes of a diver in Bali surrounded by floating plastic, however, a recent study [1]...
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