Finally fed up over bad landscapes

Martha Schwartz's Jacob Javits Plaza

I guess someone in Berkeley finally finally got fed up about current trends in landscape architecture.

Of note, a General Services Administration employee visited us last week, and expressed concern over the Jacob Javits Plaza design in the photo above. She's under enormous pressure to increase security around federal buildings in New York, and is surprised that the loopy design isn't considered a security threat. "When I go out for lunch or a phone conversation, I always get caught in those benches and can't get out." Multiply that with a sense of emergency and hundreds of people fleeing the building...no wonder she's nervous.