i am landon.
urban planning student from jacksonville, fl.
lived in atlanta and long to return.
currently in fort lauderdale.
i'm a local government employee.
i tend to blog a lot about my three cities: jacksonvile, atlanta, and fort lauderdale and florida.
these are some of my friends:
culture, music, traveling, politics, public transportation, community, and jesus.

Oh my gahh! Celebrating!

Oh my gahh!

Celebrating!

It has been too long since I've done anything with 30-60-90 triangles.

Let’s just say, I am not quite feeling ready for this shindig test tomorrow…

Hopefully, my good grades will get me into grad school :/

I need to go MIA.

Missing In Action, not Miami.

This week and next will be the most stressful days of the year for me. Despite the Thanksgiving holiday, I am going to be in the books for sure and I’m going to try convincing my family that that is the best thing for me while I’m home.

  • I have 4 essays (5 if I’m feeling ambitious and want extra credit) and a research paper due next Thursday night for the same class.
  • The next morning, I take the GRE. Let’s just say I haven’t studied for it nearly as much as I would have liked to. I stopped making vocabulary flashcards around the ‘e’ words…
  • Also, this Design Studio crap class that I’m not enjoying like I thought I would, is lingering over me with site plans and planning codes to make and write.

So my goal is to finish all of my essays (which I’ve completed 2!), research paper, and Design Studio stuff by Wednesday so that I can study for the GRE during my entire break.

I can guarantee you this will NOT happen, thanks to things like work, a 5+ hour drive home, and tumblr. So going MIA from tumblr might be one good solution for eliminating some distraction. I’m doubtful that it will happen, but I certainly will be limiting myself.

Something I’m thankful for? School being over at the end of next week.

I need to do something now.

It’s been a stressful week and I had class tonight. I’m ready to do something. Maybe drinks? Late dinner?

Though I have to wake up super early tomorrow for a canoeing waterway cleanup. :(

It’s that time of year, friends. Tourist season. All you Canadians, yankees, snow birds, Europeans out there, the Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau (whose new website is appropriately named sunny.org) is marketing towards YOU. One thing I ask though: please stay off the roads. Yeh, I’m writing a paper on how creating ‘tourist bubbles’ isn’t so great for cities…

It’s that time of year, friends. Tourist season.

All you Canadians, yankees, snow birds, Europeans out there, the Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau (whose new website is appropriately named sunny.org) is marketing towards YOU.

One thing I ask though: please stay off the roads.

Yeh, I’m writing a paper on how creating ‘tourist bubbles’ isn’t so great for cities…

So I went to see my advisor today. Turns out I have one outstanding Florida ‘Gordon Writing Rule’ class or some crap left to take in order to graduate. I am kind of pissed about this. So now I have to take a Writing for Management class in order to satisfy Florida education standards. Georgia only required two of these classes, Florida requires four!

So my final semester will be:

  • Writing for Management
  • Modern Architecture: History and Theory
  • Planning Project (also they added another section which will not be on Friday night and will have a different prof!)

The good news is that I avoided having to go to the Boca campus!

Happy 'World Town Planning Day'!

There’s events and food at school this afternoon.

College is almost over...well sort of.

For some reason I have been putting off selecting my classes for my final semester in undergrad. I don’t know why. I’m usually on top of that kind of thing and always super excited about a new semester. I am only registering for hopefully three classes though.

Tuesday, registration opens, and I’m a senior so that means priority! Hooray! I have one stinking humanities course left since this school requires more than GT. So, I’m going to shoot for a small photography class, which I think I’ll have a good chance of getting in. Unfortunately, it’s at the Boca campus, and it’s twice a week. I cannot justify going that far twice a week for one class. Though I may not have a choice. Graduate or not?

Planning Project will be my final urban planning class which is exciting. Unfortunately, it’s going to suck for two reasons: 1) It’s every Friday night from 7-10. Seriously?! Every weekend will be ruined now. 2) The professor is the nicest woman ever. She’s also a middle school language arts teacher in the daytime…

I can’t find another class for my final elective. Something in one of these areas would be preferable:

  • Architecture
  • Public Policy/Administration
  • Sociology/Demography
  • GIS

I’m ready for grad school.

Help?

I’ve decided to do some work on my site plan while watching the game today. The problem is, this site plan is literally like 7ft long. I do not own a table that large. I may not even be able to spread it out on the floor.

I’ve decided to do some work on my site plan while watching the game today.

The problem is, this site plan is literally like 7ft long. I do not own a table that large. I may not even be able to spread it out on the floor.

Today will last forever.

  • Planning ethics conference in Boca Raton. ALL day. I’m volunteering. There apparently is a free buffet lunch for volunteers.
  • Class tonight. On Friday!?

Filling out grad school applications is a lot of work...

Jumped into some of it today.

I think I’ve narrowed my choices down to three schools.

In the Netherlands, the rent for the cheaper rental homes is kept low through governmental oversight and regulation. These types of homes are known as sociale huurwoningen. In practice this is accomplished by non-profit (but non-governmental) housing societies (toegelaten instellingen) sub-contracting to corporations run purely for profit. The majority of the low-rent apartments (formerly state-owned) in the Netherlands are owned by such organisations, rather than directly by the government. In most Dutch municipalities there came to exist a certain minimum capacity of social housing throughout the last decades. In many cities such as Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht the percentage of social housing approaches or even passes 50 percent.

Wiki

50% social housing! Wow!

How socialist of you, Dutch…

PS: I’m trying to find good examples of historically preserved low-income/public, low-density housing. Any ideas?

Midterm

So, I have a midterm in my Historic Preservation class this Wednesday. So far this class has been super interesting seeing that of the 5 classes we’ve had so far, we’ve gone on a field trip 3 of those. I’m not complaining about that. I love it!

However, the prof has not given us any direction for the exam this week. No format, coverage, anything. Also, it does not help that he has placed all of his presentations on some architecture server that only architecture students have access to.

At this point, I’m hoping for an essay or two so I can just write about stuff. ha

It's funny

I just came up to BREW again to work on my essays for a few hours and half the people that are here now were here yesterday.

I find that pretty cool. :)

Sitting outside in the glorious weather before class. The Davie campus is right in the path of the airport. This means planes fly real low constantly. Maybe a little scary sometimes…I find it incredibly peaceful. I could sit here for a long period of time watching the flights go by wondering what the passengers are looking at from above. Also, if it’s a Spirit flight, I wonder if they’re flying for $9.

Sitting outside in the glorious weather before class.

The Davie campus is right in the path of the airport. This means planes fly real low constantly. Maybe a little scary sometimes…I find it incredibly peaceful. I could sit here for a long period of time watching the flights go by wondering what the passengers are looking at from above.

Also, if it’s a Spirit flight, I wonder if they’re flying for $9.