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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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Interview with Elizabeth Mossop on How Landscape Architects Can Protect New Orleans

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Environment, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management, Wildlife on 12/07/2011 | 1 Comment »

Elizabeth Mossop, ASLA, is professor of landscape architecture and former director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. Mossop is also a principal at Spackman, Mossop + Michaels, which has won numerous ASLA professional analysis and planning awards.  Since becoming the director of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State [...]

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City Landscapes, Urban Habitat

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Technology, Urban Revitalization, Waste, Water Management on 11/30/2011 | 1 Comment »

The landfill of Kearny, New Jersey, is the site of Steven Handel’s early work restoring urban habitat. It is constructed on top of a wetland. The fill material specified for landfill cover make poor soils, and the railroads, interstates, and cloverleaf interchanges work as barriers to dispersal. His work began with a question: “What can a [...]

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Rethinking Urban Renewal

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/23/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Landscape architects were implicated in misguided urban renewal schemes, said Thaisa Way, PhD, ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington at The Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation, a day-long conference organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Before Jane Jacobs [...]

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Dunham-Jones: “Underperforming Space Is an Opportunity to Retrofit”

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management, Wildlife on 11/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »

On day two of The Atlantic Magazine’s Green Intelligence forum, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor at Georgia Tech and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, talked about how some of the detritus of suburbia—the vacant big box stores, crumbling parking lots, dying strip malls—can be re-purposed. Today, a third of enclosed shopping malls are dead [...]

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Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 11/15/2011 | Leave a Comment »

“In its mixture of opportunity and indeterminacy, the Envisioning Gateway process is emblematic of the current state of landscape architecture and landscape urbanism—full of rich potential and minefields, conceptual and practical, at virtually every turn.” – Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, The Los Angeles Times The National Park Service (NPS) faces a challenge of identity. If the [...]

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Re-envision Decommissioned Military Sites

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Environment, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces on 11/09/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Architecture for Humanity has launched [UN] RESTRICTED ACCESS, its 2011 Open Architecture Challenge, which asks landscape architects, architects, and other design professionals to synch up with community groups and develop innovative approaches that reenvision closed, abandoned, or de-commissioned military sites. In fact, designers are required to work with community groups trying to transform these sites of conflict [...]

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The Race to SITES Certification

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Water Management, Wildlife on 11/02/2011 | 2 Comments »

Instead of a lofty discussion on the merits of different prerequisites and credits, Jose Alminana, FASLA, Andropogon, Angela Dye, FASLA, A. DYE Design, Hunter Beckham, ASLA, SWT Design, and Sarah Weidner Astheimer, ASLA, james corner field operations, launched into the practical challenges and rewards involved in applying the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) to new and existing projects and steering the first pilot [...]

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Restoration Ecology in Agrarian Landscapes

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Wildlife on 11/01/2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Conservation Agriculture Studio, established within Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, applies design sensibility along with conservation science to projects that are rooted in agrarian landscapes. At the ASLA 2011 annual meeting, Thomas Woltz, RLA, FASLA, principal at Nelson Byrd Woltz, said agrarian landscapes present an important opportunity for landscape architects to apply their broad skillset [...]

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Designing for Human Health

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Green Buildings on 10/12/2011 | 1 Comment »

In a session at the 2011 GreenBuild in Toronto, architects and engineers discussed how cities can employ novel approaches to improve public health. Efforts to restore rivers, and also create earthquake and wind-proof buildings, can help communities become healthier, and also more resilient to population growth and catastrophic weather events. The Value of Cleaning up Mexico City’s Rivers Elias Cattan, Taller13 Arquitectura [...]

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