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...marketing, the Moores say. The tidal wave of pink toys and clothes suggests there's only one way to be a girl - pretty, princessy and fashion-minded. And this segues disturbingly quickly into often sexualized images of tween girls a few years older, says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Colby College in Maine and co-author of the book Packaging Girlhood. The not-so-subtle pressures of this marketing can damage self-esteem and feed worries about body image and appearance later in life, the sisters say. They also link it to a celebrity-obsessed culture that undermines...
Graduate School of Design professor Michael Van Valkenburgh—who specializes in landscape architecture—will be honored this coming May with the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2010 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture...
...Valkenburgh is the only living GSD Landscape Architecture professor to have received this award, which is rarely awarded to a landscape architect...
Most recently, Van Valkenburgh designed the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 1 in New York City, which Ethan Carr, an associate professor of landscape history at the University of Virginia, said will likely be one of the “most successful of this new generation of municipal park projects...
Gary R. Hilderbrand, an adjunct professor at the GSD who has worked with Van Valkenburgh for the past twenty years, said that Van Valkenburgh has “design leadership of a rare kind...