Today’s New York Times covers the debate over the use of native plants in highway medians and at rest stops across the country. According to “Wildflowers Find Favor With Highway Gardeners,” switching to native plants and grasses can help stretched state highway budgets because native plants require less mowing and pruning. More than a dozen [...]
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NY Times: Should American Roadsides Look Like English Gardens?
Posted in Gardens on 08/29/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The “Right to Dry” Movement Is Blowing in the Wind
Posted in Climate Change, Residential Design on 08/28/2007 | 1 Comment »
When The Dirt was just a little kid, he vividly remembers helping his mom put clean clothes out to dry on the backyard clothesline. In the 20+ intervening years, however, line-drying clothes has been frowned upon by homeowners’ associations and others who believed clotheslines would decrease property values. The pendulum may be swinging back, however; [...]
Green Roofs..for Dumpsters
Posted in Green Roofs on 08/27/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Dirt loves green roofs, and likes to see them doing their good environmental work everywhere. So even though it’s not the most glamorous place for a green roof, here’s a story out of Michigan about the city of Grand Haven’s recently installed green roofs overtop their new dumpster enclosures downtown. The two new roofs, [...]
Santa Monica Turns Runway into Dog Park
Posted in Public Spaces on 08/23/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The city of Santa Monica, California, has transformed a former airport runway into 8.5 acres of dog-friendly parkland. The landscape architecture firm ah’bé landscape architects [principal Calvin Abe, FASLA] used green stormwater management, landscape planting, and irrigation throughout the parking lots, two soccer fields, and dog area. The Airport Park is the first city-built “ground-up” [...]
Detroit Citizens Turn to Urban Gardening
Posted in Urban Revitalization on 08/16/2007 | 1 Comment »
In the July issue of Harpers magazine, writer Rebecca Solnit explored modern-day Detroit and found that the wilderness was returning to the city’s many abandoned buildings and empty lots. Her piece, “Detroit Arcadia: Exploring the Post-American Landscape” (unfortunately available only to subscribers), showed how some city dwellers were reclaiming those empty lots by turning them [...]
Did Urban Sprawl Take Down Angkor Wat?
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/15/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The BBC reports on researchers studying satellite imagery of the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. The researchers now believe that the urban area around Angkor may have been much larger than previously thought, possibly as large as modern-day Los Angeles. Using NASA images along with ground surveys and airborne photography, the researchers have found [...]
Environmentalism on Campus: Which Schools Are the Most Green?
Posted in Campus Planning on 08/10/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Grist, a great resource for environmental news, has released their list of the “Top 15 Green Colleges and Universities.” Topping the list is the tiny College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, that has only one major, human ecology–or “the study of our relationship with our environment.” However, there are several large, traditional schools [...]
GoodSearch.com: Charities Benefit Each Time You Search
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/08/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The ASLA Fund, the foundation that seeks to expand the body of knowledge of the landscape architecture profession, has partnered with GoodSearch.com, a Yahoo-powered search engine. GoodSearch donates 50% of its revenue, approximately a penny per search, to the charities designated by its users. The Dirt would like to encourage you, faithful readers, to use [...]
Balancing the Growth of Cities
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/06/2007 | Leave a Comment »
This letter from ASLA National Student Representative Paul Fusco appears in the latest issue of LAND Online. Please let your voice be heard by using the comment system below. No matter what we try to do the population is going to grow, and cities will follow the same path of expansion. Due to this growing [...]
“No Child Left Inside” Act Proposed
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/02/2007 | Leave a Comment »
While The Dirt mainly keeps out of the realm of Capitol Hill (leaving that to ASLA’s fine government affairs staff), here’s something new from Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD): last month he introduced an amendment to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), currently up for reauthorization. His amendment, called the “No Child Left Inside” Act [...]
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