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Pine Hall Brick is offering PaverScape, a free software CD that enables landscape architects (and consumers) to effect a digital design of a patio, walkway or driveway so that the interested parties can see what the hardscape will look like before work begins. Laura Schwind, RLA, of Pine Hall Brick, says the software uses a digital photograph of the project as the starting point. The area to be paved is then defined and the landscape architect can show the client what the project will look like in any of 24 styles of paver, laid in any one of six patterns. To get a digital image of the area as it will appear once the project is completed, LAs can go to the nearest Pine Hall Brick distributor (visit pinehallbrick.com and click on ?EUR??,,????'??Distributor Locator?EUR??,,????'??), or call (800) 334-8689 to get a copy of the software CD.
Pine Hall Brick is offering PaverScape, a free software CD that enables landscape architects (and consumers) to effect a digital design of a patio, walkway or driveway so that the interested parties can see what the hardscape will look like before work begins.
Laura Schwind, RLA, of Pine Hall Brick, says the software uses a digital photograph of the project as the starting point. The area to be paved is then defined and the landscape architect can show the client what the project will look like in any of 24 styles of paver, laid in any one of six patterns.
To get a digital image of the area as it will appear once the project is completed, LAs can go to the nearest Pine Hall Brick distributor (visit pinehallbrick.com and click on ?EUR??,,????'??Distributor Locator?EUR??,,????'??), or call (800) 334-8689 to get a copy of the software CD.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Yakima, located in central Washington state, held a ceremony to inaugurate the laying of the first bricks for the streets in Yakima?EUR??,,????'???s historic North Front Street district. The district is getting a complete makeover in an attempt to rejuvenate the area. In 1907, the downtown Yakima streets were a mix of rocks and dirt, with trolley tracks and wagon wheel ruts. Community leaders back then decided they needed to upgrade the streets to brick if the city was to thrive. City workers began laying brick by hand in 1907, beginning with the oldest part of the downtown?EUR??,,????'??+North Front Street. By 1908, all the downtown streets were brick. Over the years, as with many cities, the brick was paved over with asphalt to make for smoother driving. Now, 100 years later, community leaders and business owners are again turning to brick paved streets to help economic development for the oldest section of the city. Funding for the project is approximately $2 million. For several weeks, crews have been removing the old road surfaces along an L-shaped section of North Front Street. The water and sewer lines, some as old as the original brick streets, have been replaced.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Yakima, located in central Washington state, held a ceremony to inaugurate the laying of the first bricks for the streets in Yakima?EUR??,,????'???s historic North Front Street district. The district is getting a complete makeover in an attempt to rejuvenate the area.
In 1907, the downtown Yakima streets were a mix of rocks and dirt, with trolley tracks and wagon wheel ruts. Community leaders back then decided they needed to upgrade the streets to brick if the city was to thrive. City workers began laying brick by hand in 1907, beginning with the oldest part of the downtown?EUR??,,????'??+North Front Street. By 1908, all the downtown streets were brick.
Over the years, as with many cities, the brick was paved over with asphalt to make for smoother driving. Now, 100 years later, community leaders and business owners are again turning to brick paved streets to help economic development for the oldest section of the city. Funding for the project is approximately $2 million.
For several weeks, crews have been removing the old road surfaces along an L-shaped section of North Front Street. The water and sewer lines, some as old as the original brick streets, have been replaced.
The Delta College Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a $4.8 million project to rebuild two parking lots on the south side of the campus with permeable asphalt and bioswales, add a grassy area between them, and incorporate larger culverts and two retention areas. The storm water design should end the chronic flooding experience at the south end of the campus. The school also views the storm water project as an educational tool to show the benefits of runoff management for the nearby Saginaw River. The project design will go for final approval to the Department of Environmental Quality, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bay County Drain Commission before going out for bids. Construction is expected to being in May 2008.
The Delta College Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a $4.8 million project to rebuild two parking lots on the south side of the campus with permeable asphalt and bioswales, add a grassy area between them, and incorporate larger culverts and two retention areas.
The storm water design should end the chronic flooding experience at the south end of the campus. The school also views the storm water project as an educational tool to show the benefits of runoff management for the nearby Saginaw River.
The project design will go for final approval to the Department of Environmental Quality, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bay County Drain Commission before going out for bids. Construction is expected to being in May 2008.
On Sept. 21, 2007, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami, among other U.S. locals, plus such international cities as Manchester and London in the U.K., Barcelona, Munich, Toronto, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro, hosted ?EUR??,,????'??Park(ing) Day,?EUR??,,????'?? an event in which design teams turn some metered parking spaces into green spaces?EUR??,,????'??+at least for a couple hours. This idea began with the Rebar Group of San Francisco. Rebar, formed in 2004, calls itself a ?EUR??,,????'??collaborative group of creators, designers and activists ?EUR??,,????'??? situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity.?EUR??,,????'?? Rebar is ?EUR??,,????'??fundamentally motivated by the desire to animate the arbitrariness of what French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls the doxa: ?EUR??,,????'??the uncontested acceptance of the daily life-world and the adherence to a set of social relations we take to be self-event.?EUR??,,????'?? Rebar estimates that more than 70 percent of San Francisco?EUR??,,????'???s downtown outdoor space is dedicated to private motor vehicles, while only a fraction of that space is public people space. Rebar identified an area in San Francisco?EUR??,,????'???s financial district that was ?EUR??,,????'??underserved by public outdoor space and in an ideal, sunny location between the hours of noon and 2 p.m.?EUR??,,????'?? On Nov. 16, 2005, Rebar installed a small, temporary public park that provided nature, seating and shade?EUR??,,????'??+until the meter ran out. Rebar reprised and expanded the event last year, is doing so again this year and has inspired cities across the U.S. and around the world to join in. The annual event involves many people from design fields, including landscape architects. For the event in Los Angeles, Ah?EUR??,,????'???b????(C) Landscape Architects decorated a metered parking space in Culver City with sunflowers and a safety barrier of traffic cones.
On Sept. 21, 2007, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami, among other U.S. locals, plus such international cities as Manchester and London in the U.K., Barcelona, Munich, Toronto, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro, hosted ?EUR??,,????'??Park(ing) Day,?EUR??,,????'?? an event in which design teams turn some metered parking spaces into green spaces?EUR??,,????'??+at least for a couple hours.
This idea began with the Rebar Group of San Francisco. Rebar, formed in 2004, calls itself a ?EUR??,,????'??collaborative group of creators, designers and activists ?EUR??,,????'??? situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity.?EUR??,,????'?? Rebar is ?EUR??,,????'??fundamentally motivated by the desire to animate the arbitrariness of what French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls the doxa: ?EUR??,,????'??the uncontested acceptance of the daily life-world and the adherence to a set of social relations we take to be self-event.?EUR??,,????'??
Rebar estimates that more than 70 percent of San Francisco?EUR??,,????'???s downtown outdoor space is dedicated to private motor vehicles, while only a fraction of that space is public people space. Rebar identified an area in San Francisco?EUR??,,????'???s financial district that was ?EUR??,,????'??underserved by public outdoor space and in an ideal, sunny location between the hours of noon and 2 p.m.?EUR??,,????'?? On Nov. 16, 2005, Rebar installed a small, temporary public park that provided nature, seating and shade?EUR??,,????'??+until the meter ran out. Rebar reprised and expanded the event last year, is doing so again this year and has inspired cities across the U.S. and around the world to join in.
The annual event involves many people from design fields, including landscape architects. For the event in Los Angeles, Ah?EUR??,,????'???b????(C) Landscape Architects decorated a metered parking space in Culver City with sunflowers and a safety barrier of traffic cones.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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