IFLA Newsletter n° 87 - Asia Pacific Region Special Issue (April 2010)

Diversity of cultures is a strength of the Asia Pacific Region. From the mountains and deserts of Iran in the north-west, to the indented coastlines and island of Japan and New Zealand in the north-east and south-east, there is also a multitude of different landscapes. As those landscape are made and influenced by cultures that have different understandings of nature, and different responses to their surroundings, so exhilarating contrasts have developed. Even though rulers and traders of surrounding ancient countries interacted and mixed different cultures, fauna and flora when they visited Darius in Iran centuries ago, as recorded on stone panels in the sacked city of Persepolis, the differences have been maintained over the centuries. Even though religions and ideas have been transported through the region, gradually modifying cultures, the differences have created unique landscapes. You know where you are when you walk through cities in Japan or fields in Thailand or India.





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IFLA News Brief No. 30

The IFLA News Brief, issue #30 (April 2010) has just been published.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 86 - A new year, a new world (February 2010)

This issue includes articles on new member associations from Paraguay, Ecuador, and Central America and the Caribbean, who were welcomed to IFLA at the World Council meeting in Rio in late October 2009. We introduce our new Vice President Europe, Nigel Thorne and other European executive committee members Carlo Bruschi (VP Professional Practice) and Marina Cervera Alonso De Medina (Secretary). The IFLA elections are underway at present so in two months time the new President and other regional Vice Presidents will be introduced.
We have a new office: Executive Secretary Christine Bavassa has moved into new premises in a location that is closer to the action in Brussels. We are sharing an office with a local representative of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (IsoCaRP), so we will have immediately better opportunities to work with one of our partners.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 85 - Competitions issue (November 2009)

In this issue we think of the achievements of the past and prospects for future growth in landscape architecture. When these achievements are presented at competitions, they enter that unusual space where expressions of the close relationships developed with clients are subjected to the most intense professional scrutiny. As Jon Bryan Burley counsels us, although not all can win a competition award, we have the potential to learn and grow in the process of trying.
In this issue we salute Bernard Lassus for the award of the 2009 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Medal. We also acknowledge the passing away of Nava Polman - Gerson, a friend and a staunch participant in IFLA business and meetings.

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IFLA Journal, Volume 35, n° 3 Available

Just released: September 2009 issue of IFLA Journal



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IFLA Newsletter n° 84 - In search of sustainability - IFLA News Brief n° 24

IFLA Newsletter n° 84 - In search of sustainability (4th of October 2009)- Available online!

Whatever the approach in our articles and in the wealth of perspectives in presentations to be shown in Rio de Janeiro, we landscape architects have a duty to our clients, to the people who are affected by our designs and to biodiversity itself, to act as stewards of landscapes. Our duty is to conserve and enhance landscapes so that they function and endure. Certainly, we design for beauty, but that is not the end of it. We also design for sustenance, health, diversity and connectivity, and so that community rights in our landscapes are maintained.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 22 and 23 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief n° 22 and n° 23 are available on the IFLA website.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 83, July 2009

IFLA Newsletter n° 83, July 2009 is now available!

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Community Collaboration
Collaboration for a landscape architect comes in many forms. As we can see from the articles in this issue of IFLA News, we collaborate on a spectrum from eliciting community feelings and beliefs by way of a process involving no formal consultation or structured meetings, through more proactive meetings, charettes, and steering committees to achieve shared and negotiated outcomes, to community mobilisation at a district or national level.

Articles featuring different levels of community ownership have been contributed from the Americas (Cecilia B. Herzog on a collaborative team in Rio de Janeiro and Beata Dreksler rescuing a central Guatemala City park), and from Europe (Thomas Knoll on transnational collaboration). Others come from Asia and the Pacific: Iran (Mohammad Motallebi on national action on tree planting), Japan (Mayumi Hayashi on community input into urban reconstruction after earthquake devastation), New Zealand (Dennis Scott) and Australia. The issue is introduced by Greg Grabasch who describes two examples of engagement with local communities in the far northwest of Western Australia. Whereas interventions in the past in this region have tended to occur regardless of community wishes, a new approach has allowed local ownership of landscape developments and a better result for visitors alike.
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International Preservation News n° 48 online

The International Preservation News 48 is now online on IFLA website.

This issue is dedicated to Paper.

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The International Preservation News, a newsletter of the IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation, is distributed online and in paper version free of charge.
Any person interested in the paper version may write to
christiane.baryla@bnf.fr or
flore.izart@bnf.fr

IFLA News Brief, n° 21 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief n° 21 (July 2009) is available on the IFLA website.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 20 - 2009 (landscapes)

The issue n° 20 of the IFLA News Brief (June 2009) is available online.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 82; IFLA News Brief, n° 19 and Special Issue - May 2009 (landscapes)

New IFLA publications:

IFLA Newsletter n° 82, May 2009, available

Two issues of IFLA News Brief, n° 19 and World Landscape Architecture Month celebrated, has just been published.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 18 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief n° 18 (April 2009) has just been published on the IFLA website

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IFLA Newsletter n° 81 - Cultural Landscapes

The IFLA Newsletter issue #81 on Cultural Landscapes has just been posted on the IFLA website.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 17 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief, issue #17 (2009) has just been published.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 16 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief, issue #16 (2009) has just been published.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 80

IFLA (the International Federation of Landscape Architects) has just published the IFLA Newsletter, n° 80 (January 2009)

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IFLA News Brief, n° 15 - 2009 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief, issue #15 (2009) has just been published.

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IFLA News Brief, n° 13 - 2008 (landscapes)

The IFLA News Brief issue #13 has just been published.

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IFLA Newsletter n° 79 and IFLA News Brief, n° 12 - 2008

- IFLA Newsletter n° 79 - November 2008: Issue on Climate Change (Download)

- IFLA News Brief n° 12 (Download)