Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.
The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series...
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Simon Winchester
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.
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Will Advise
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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Mark Twain
Dreams are our only geography–our native land.
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Dejan Stojanovic
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
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Neil Gaiman
More Quotes By Jack Dangermond
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand...
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
