Monday, 12 January 2009

Focus directions and Blog tagging

Visitors to this blog will notice that I am not using tagging to categorise the topics I have covered on this page. This will make it easier for everyone to find any particular entries and filter down the topics that interest them.
These tagged categories also reveal the particular directions that I am aiming to look at and cover in particular detail on this blog.
As is already the case I intend to continue to build up an array of case studies from landscape architecture sites which I have personally visited, hopefully these will include some of my own views on the project and some photographs. While these will largely be from within the London area I do also aim to focus on any other project sites I do happen to stumble across.
Another priority, and closely linking with that discussed above is to look at and monitor some of the implications of 'Private Public Space'- that is spaces which are privately owned but claim to be open for public use. Sometimes the extent of being public spaces can vary, one which I commonly note as a photographer are the occasions where, for no apparent reason, photographs are not allowed on certain pieces of land. There are of course management and maintenance issues also connected with the ownership of land. As a general rule privately owned spaces tend to receive better maintenance and contain increased security.
The final area I will be looking at in more detail is the use of digital media in landscape architecture work. I have experimented with several types of software and aim to continually broaden my use of different packages- experience of this should be detailed on this blog.
Hopefully these changes and the newly created corridors to focus my attention on should make this blog even more exciting (yes... I think it is possible!).

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