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Reflections on the Amsterdam Bos
In 1999 Anita Berrizbeita published an essay on the Amsterdam Bos park, ‘The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience’. Anna, a MA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich, reflects on the significance of this article today. Being an ecologist by training and new to the world of…
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How do you shut down a National Park?
Since midnight last night the National Park Service in the US has been shut down. Due to the Federal shutdown caused by the latest budget impasse the parks themselves have been closed and even the website turned off. In accord with the Interior Department’s contingency plan: “All areas of the National Park and National Wildlife…
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Water by Edward Burtynsky
The latest work of photographer Edward Burtynsky is on show in New York this month. The Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery both have shows of Burtynsky’s stunning landscape photographs. Continuing the theme of water, the latest feature documentary Watermark, co-directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, was released in Canada by Mongrel Media in September.…
Learn to DESIGN landscapes
The Landscape Architecture and Urbanism programmes (BA, MA, MLA, MSc and PhD) at the University of Greenwich, London, are focused on the speculative design of future landscapes and cities informed by site-focused research and live projects.
History of innovation
Programmes encourage design invention and experimentation from within one of the oldest schools of landscape in the UK, with notable lecturers such Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and renowned graduates such as Marti Franch Matllori.
Programmes are based in the award-winning Stockwell Street building within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site. Students have gone on to lead design and planning studios such as Gustafson Porter + Bowman and delivering projects like the London Olympic Park.
The Landscape 