Cinco de Mayo

Celebrate CInco de Mayo with some Mexican Landscape Architecture.

I finally made my first trip to Mexico City last year and was amazed.

Water Lecture

Later this week a notable talk will be given by Dr. Katharine Meehan, from the Department of Geography, University of Oregon (http://geography.uoregon.edu/Faculty/Meehan). Her talk is titled "Tool-power: the political life of water infrastructure in Tijuana". Date: Friday, February 22, 2013 Time: 3:00pm Location: Lucy Stone Hall B-115, Livingston Campus, Rutgers

Cinco de Mayo

Celebrate Cinco de mayo by looking over a few ASLA award winning projects in Mexico. 

Grupo De Diseño Urbano SC highlight an part what might be the oldest park in the Americas with their design of the Fountain Promenade at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. They also designed a great residential landscape at the Malinalco House. DIRT tried to revision part of the Mexico City basin.

Largest Mayan pyramid

A lost Mayan city that is so important that People Magazine is covering it? That must be big. But, it is in Guatamala.

If you've never seen a Mayan ruin, you might as well start of with those that you could see on our Winter Session course, Cultural and Ecological Landscapes of the Yucatan.

Go to the Yucatan!

Now is the time to sign up for the Rutgers LA winter 2008/2009 course in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. This class can count as either your jr/sr colloquium or a multicultural class (but not both). It will be taught by Jason Husveth. UPDATED: Check in with Rutgers Study Abroad http://studyabroad.rutgers.edu/index.html Phone: 732/932-7787

On an unrelated note, Felipe Calderon, the President of Mexico has just visited New Brunswick announcing his intention to open a consulate here. According to the Home News and Tribune:

Latinos, and Mexicans in particular, make up a sizable portion of Central Jersey's population. According to census figures released in May, the Latino population in the state grew by 1.25 percentage points, to 1,382,000 from 2006 and 2007. Latinos in New Jersey account for almost 16 percent of the state's population, a percentage near equal to country's overall Hispanic population.

The NY Times Great homes page has the Yucatan Village and Resort. This is NOT where our students will be staying.