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St. Louis Citygarden, a 2.9-acre Sculpture Park, Fosters Social Interaction Downtown

Posted in Gardens, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 11/30/2009 | 1 Comment »

At the heart of St. Louis, Citygarden, a new 2.9-acre sculpture park designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and studio|durham architects, is revitalizing a formerly run-down part of downtown St. Louis through landscape and public sculpture. The park, a mix of urban park, urban garden, and sculpture garden, was designed to foster interaction. It seems [...]

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Modernist Landscapes Photo Exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum

Posted in Exhibits, Land Art, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities on 11/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is now featuring an exhibition of photos of 12 modernist landscapes. According to the museum, the George Eastman House, in conjunction with The Cultural Landscape foundation, the organizers of the exhibition, examine 12 “important modernist landscapes” through the lens of ten photographers. The project is as much about ”photography as it’s about landscape.”  [...]

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Call for Papers: MillionTreesNYC Research Symposium on Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecology

Posted in Education, Environment, Opportunities, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 11/20/2009 | 4 Comments »

According to MillionTreesNYC, the purpose of its 2010 research symposium, which will be held March 5-6 in New York City, is to showcase “research and projects that contribute to knowledge on urban landscapes, green infrastructure, and public health in cities and urban areas.” The organization is soliciting papers on research that is either completed or substantially in progress that [...]

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New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests

Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Forests, Technology on 11/20/2009 | 12 Comments »

Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Aleinov and David Rind, two climate modellers at NASA, argue that foresting the Australian outback and Saharan Desert would “solve climate change.” While numerous geoengineering schemes have been proposed to mitigate the adverse effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) build-up, [...]

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Green Walls Growing Popular

Posted in Agriculture, Gardens, Green Buildings on 11/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times reports that some building manufacturing firms are moving into the nascent but growing green wall market. In the case of Barthelmes Manufacturing company, the firm is producing vertical metal panels that can be filled with soil and seeds. Green walls have some of the same benefits of green roofs. “Like green roofs, walls [...]

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WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Jury on Next Generation Urban Infrastructure

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Water Management on 11/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is part two in a series of posts on the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition. Part one highlights the keynote speech by Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which framed the overall competition, and explains the six finalists’ ideas. WPA 2.o was organized by UCLA’s cityLAB and held at the National Building Museum earlier [...]

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WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Announces Winners

Posted in Climate Change, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Transportation, Technology, Urban Design, Waste, Water Management on 11/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »

UCLA cityLAB announced the winners of its WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition, which claims “whoever rules the sewers, rules the city.” “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” by PORT architects won the professional competition, and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” jointly won the student competition. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Chair Hitoshi Abe announced the winners at the end of day-long symposium at [...]

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Development Marketplace Invests in 26 Innovative Climate Change Adaptation Ideas

Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Green Buildings, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Technology, Water Management on 11/13/2009 | 4 Comments »

The Development Marketplace, an innovative global development grant competition, announced 26 winning climate change adaptation projects. This year, the Development Marketplace competition gave out almost $5 million in grants and was sponsored by the World Bank Institute, Global Environment Facility (GEF), Danish Foreign Ministry, and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). There were a few key themes: improving the resiliency of indigenous peoples [...]

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Green Construction Will Add $554 Billion to U.S. GDP by 2013, Create 8 Million New Jobs

Posted in Green Buildings, Sustainable Design on 11/13/2009 | 1 Comment »

A new study released by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that green building will add $554 billion to the U.S. economy (including $396 billion in new wages), and support 7.9 million U.S. jobs during the next four year period (2009-2013). The study also confirms that green construction spending currently supports “more than 2 million American [...]

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Sydney Harbour Design Competition

Posted in Opportunities on 11/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sydney’s city government announced a design competition for a new public domain on Sydney Harbour, which will include the creation of a “signature headland park” that will be part of a new “world-class” waterfront. Landscape architecture, architecture and urban design teams are invited to submit proposals no later than December 18, 2009. The Barangaroo site is 22 hectares, and is found [...]

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