Alice Webb, RLA, ASLA, is the author of this blog and the owner of EarthDesign Landscape Architecture LLC in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has been practicing landscape architecture for over 25 years, and started her own business in 2005. EarthDesign is on Facebook and Twitter, and the company’s website is www.edlandarch.com.
The header image on this blog is from a sketch by Alice Webb of Central Park in New York City. This view is toward the northeast from the Belvedere Castle, in Autumn as the leaves were just beginning to change colors. Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s. Olmsted is known as the father of American landscape architecture, and designed many parks, public spaces, and academic campuses throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
very informative and well illustrated blog! Glad I found it.
Hope to meet you in the near future, Alice.
Central Mass
Louise
Thanks, Louise — Glad you found my blog! Perhaps we’ll get a chance to meet if you’re in central MA also.
I like your blog! Very interesting!
Regards from Spain!
Thank-you, Maria! I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed my posts.
Wonderful blog. Would love to see a post about Peabody Square, with its new public art, a redesigned Ashmont T Station, a summer farmers’ market, bike racks, etc.; or the Talbot Norfolk Triangle Greenspace Master Plan–an ongoing plan for development of parks, playgrounds and gardens made via community consensus. Both in Dorchester.
We’ve had the pleasure to welcome researchers from Clark U to Dorchester recently–they come directly out of the Human Environmental Research Observatory and have been doing focus groups on people-neighborhood-environment-amenities-etc.
Thank-you, Joel – These projects that you’ve mentioned look interesting, and I plan to contact you via email to find out more about them.