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ASLA President Susan Hatchell Speaks at Earth Day on the National Mall

Posted in Landscape Architecture, National Mall, Public Spaces on 04/23/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Susan Hatchell, FASLA, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), gave this speech to an online audience of nearly one million Sunday, April 22, on the National Mall. Of the many organizations and businesses represented, ASLA was the only design organization focused on sustainability presenting on the Mall. I am Susan Hatchell, president of the American [...]

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The Case for a National Academy of Environmental Design

Posted in Active Design, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation on 04/19/2012 | 2 Comments »

At the national conference of the American Planning Association, Fritz Steiner, FASLA, Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, and one of the forces behind the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES), Dr. Nisha Botchwey, Associate Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech University, and Michael Monti, Association of Collegiate Schools of [...]

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A Landscape Neutra Would Have Loved

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Residential Design on 04/18/2012 | 1 Comment »

The lucky couple who gets to live in Kun 2, a Richard Neutra house in the hills of Los Angeles, have it made. Views sweep across the entire city from the living and bedrooms, and now there’s an elegant work of residential landscape architecture to go with the home that also solves contemporary challenges. Lisa Gimmy, ASLA, a landscape architect who [...]

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You Can’t Fool Mother Nature but You Can Understand Her

Posted in Forests, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Water Management on 04/18/2012 | 2 Comments »

James Urban, FASLA, noted soil and tree expert, recently gave his talk, You Cannot Fool Mother Nature but You Can Understand Her, at the Arsenal in New York City. Urban is a prolific writer and lecturer on the subject of tree planting and the conditions needed to improve tree performance in urban environments. Urban focused his talk on ”eight simple ideas,” [...]

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A New Town for Khayelitsha

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 04/16/2012 | 2 Comments »

South Africa’s apartheid regime deliberately designed cities to divide communities, creating a legacy of poverty, racial fragmentation, and criminal behaviour. Cape Town is no different from other South African cities, and the impacts of apartheid’s legacy are apparent in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town settlement where only 52 percent of residents are “economically active.” Furthermore, the town must deal [...]

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Interview with Diana Balmori

Posted in Green Roofs, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 04/11/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Diana Balmori, FASLA, Ph.D, is principal of Balmori Associates. Balmori also teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has served as a Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C for seven years. She serves on the [...]

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What Makes a Street Green?

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Materials, Sustainable Transportation, Water Management on 04/11/2012 | 1 Comment »

There are many ecological technologies that can make a street green, but the key element is being “flexible, adaptable,” said Neil Weinstein, executive director of the Low Impact Development Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of green infrastructure in the built environment, at a session organized by the National Building Museum. Weinstein, who is a [...]

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Cao | Perrot’s Cherry Blossoms

Posted in Gardens, Land Art, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Sustainable Materials on 04/09/2012 | 3 Comments »

Following the success of Easy Rider, an installation by land artist Patrick Dougherty, Dumbarton Oaks, which used to be a somewhat stuffy D.C. institution, seems to have really let loose with Cloud Terrace, a new temporary installation by landscape artists Cao | Perrot. In an effort to create “fresh, unexpected experiences” in Dumbarton Oaks’ gardens, Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot roped in [...]

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Diana Balmori: “The Important Thing Is the Space”

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 04/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »

In a talk at the National Building Museum, Spanish-born Diana Balmori, FASLA, a leading landscape designer famous for both her projects in Spain and the U.S., made the case for focusing on our shared landscapes, arguing that they are increasingly the “terrain for discussing our issues,” much more so than buildings. Her goal, actually, is to “diminish the [...]

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Green Infrastructure Goes Large in New York

Posted in Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Urban Revitalization, Waste, Water Management on 04/04/2012 | 1 Comment »

In 2010, New York City released an ambitious green infrastructure plan to spur investment in green roofs and streets, bioswales, and other natural systems to manage stormwater. Just last month, New York State and city officials announced a broad-reaching financing agreement was reached that will commit more than $2.4 billion in public and private investment towards [...]

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