FASLANYC
FASLANYC works as a landscape architect for an urban design firm in New York City. He also writes the landscape criticism blog faslanyc and contributes to other design journals with features focusing on urban projects in South America.
http://www.faslanyc.blogspot.com
http://www.faslanyc.blogspot.com
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FASLANYC visits Floyd Bennett Field and finds an example of park use that references the site’s unique history and demonstrates the changing nature of recreation. |
Landscape/architectural criticism today is often conservative and superficial. I attribute this to two main causes; the modern insecurity of the professions, and the mystification of the academic aspect of landscape/architecture and their concomitant critics and apologists.
The first issue, the insecurity of the landscape/architecture professions, is a relatively recent phenomenon, beginning with the fallout… 
