Hi John, I’d be glad to show you the end result. My goal is to try a publisher after I am finished, so I hope I will also have the pleasure of sending you a book with an ISBN on it 
City planning belongs more to the ‘spatial planning’ department, where my specialty deals more with ‘urban and architectural design’. The major difference is that planners deal with numbers, statistics, data, etc, while we deal with drawings and maps
As for green spaces, they are important. :oHehe… Wow John, this is a great subject, and in my school (here in Milan), there is a whole tradition of NOT generalizing to ‘green spaces’, as there are all kinds of green spaces, and each should be put where fit. (a poor designer will name any open green space; ‘green’; but there are hundreds of things that one can do with a ‘green’ space… if you know what I mean). Gardens are also important :o In fact there is a section in my thesis devoted to ‘garden forms’.
Enough with that!! I thought I came to this journal to take a break from my work 
Sunday, Nov.7th, 2010
Rain… .rain … rain … rain… This city pretty much stinks weather-wise !!! I might as well have chosen the U.K., where people at least speak English… ?? :o
I trained in the rain. It was almost pouring.
> 30min on grass
> dynamic stretching
(the following were done on playground tartan… softest thing in the world… so nice!)
> 5 x 25m A skips
5 x 25m B skips
5 x 50m running A’s (tiring)
5 x 5x imaginary hurdle hops
(then I proceeded to the short grass hill - about 40m - still pouring)
> 3 x 40m hills (walk back recoveries)
I wanted to do more, but then an annoying man started climbing my hill, (no one else was around with that rain), staring and smiling at me rudely, so I jogged down the hill and vanished home, before anything could make me upset…
Sometimes I hate being a girl and training alone in a foreign city.
God bless the EMS:
> 20min explosive strength on hamstrings
> 25min active recovery on hamstrings
> 40min strength on quads
> 2 x 20min relaxing massage on calves (both were REALLY tight… that my left knee started hurting)