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Archive for December, 2011

Mobile Garden on the Loop

Posted in Land Art, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design on 12/28/2011 | 1 Comment »

Earlier this fall, Noisivelet, a public arts organization whose name is ”television” spelled backwards, brought Mobile Garden to a train car riding Chicago’s downtown Loop, where it was exhibited along with projects by 50 other artists. Part of the Art on Track festival, the exhibition offered passengers with a lush respite filled with sod and native plants. Some passengers clearly got into it: [...]

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UN Climate Summit Moved Goal Post

Posted in Climate Change, Policy and Regulation on 12/22/2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Global Carbon Project, a collaboration of climate scientists, recently calculated that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew a whopping 5.9 percent in 2011 (the largest annual jump on record) and total emissions jumped nearly 50 percent since 1990. Unfortunately, a recent agreement forged out of the latest two-week United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Durban, South [...]

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E.P.A. Offers $1.8 million in Urban Green Infrastructure Grants

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 12/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) is offering up to $1.8 million in new grants for urban green infrastructure projects that both improve water quality and support community revitalization. Projects that support the restoration of canals, rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, estuaries, bays and oceans qualify. The E.P.A. argues that improving urban water quality is central to sustainable urban development. “Many urban waterways have been [...]

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You Create Bluebrain’s Landscape Soundtracks

Posted in Landscape Architecture, National Mall, Public Spaces, Technology on 12/21/2011 | 2 Comments »

Washington, D.C.-based musicians and brothers Hays and Ryan Holladay released the first “location-aware album,” a free smartphone app, for the National Mall earlier this summer and then, just recently, an app for Central Park in NYC. Leveraging the global positioning system (GPS) technology of smartphones, Bluebrain serves up hours of music based on the physical location of listeners. As listeners move through these landscapes, they enter different zones, [...]

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Farm the Rooftops

Posted in Agriculture, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 12/16/2011 | 2 Comments »

In many cities, rooftops that can handle the soil, water, and plant loads are being put to productive use, attacking food insecurity and building communities in the process, said Leigh Whittinghill, Michigan State University, at the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in Philadelphia. Still, there are some major barriers preventing more widespread rooftop farming, namely [...]

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Burj Khalifa Park Gets Starring Role in New Mission Impossible

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 12/15/2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, opened in Dubai in early 2010. However, it’s just now getting its big screen debut (at least in a major American film) through the fourth film in the Mission Impossible franchise. There are no real details on the plot developments that bring in the Khalifa, but Filmfilia says the movie offers thrills: “This is not just another [...]

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How to Integrate Design

Posted in Green Buildings, Green Roofs, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Water Management, Wildlife on 12/14/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Living systems, including green infrastructure systems like green roofs, are infinitely complex. ”They mimic nature so will grow and thrive. Designing these systems, though, requires an integrated design process,” said David Yocca, FASLA, Conservation Design Forum, at the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. Landscape architects, architects, and green roof product manufacturers discussed [...]

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Interview with Emma Marris, Author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

Posted in Climate Change, Ecosystem Restoration, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Wildlife on 12/14/2011 | 13 Comments »

Emma Marris is author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World and has also written for Nature. Read her op-ed on the Anthropocene in The New York Times. In your new book, Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Nature World, you argue that “we are already running the whole Earth, whether we admit or [...]

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ASLA 2012 Annual Meeting Call for Presentations

Posted in Education, Opportunities on 12/12/2011 | Leave a Comment »

ASLA is accepting education session proposals for the 2012 annual meeting and EXPO, September 28-October 1, in Phoenix. If you are interested in presenting and sharing your knowledge with the landscape architecture profession, ASLA encourages you to submit a proposal through its online system. ASLA continues to focus on the education program, the number-one reason people go to the ASLA [...]

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DesignIntelligence 2012 Landscape Architecture Program Rankings

Posted in Education, Landscape Architecture on 12/08/2011 | 2 Comments »

DesignIntelligence released its 2012 landscape architecture graduate and undergraduate program rankings. For the second year, Louisiana State University came in at the top of undergraduate landscape architecture programs and, for the eighth year, Harvard University came in as the best graduate programs in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence on behalf of the Design Futures Council. Detailed rankings are available [...]

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