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Interview with Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of the High Line

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 02/08/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Robert Hammond is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Friends of the High Line, the non-profit conservancy that manages the High Line, a public park built atop an abandoned, elevated rail line on the west side of Manhattan. Hammond was awarded a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation’s [...]

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It Takes a Village to Raise a Mayor

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 10/31/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Smart mayors who get the value design and its ability to transform communities don’t just grow on trees. They are the product of lots of different advisors and their thinking is shaped by organizations like the Mayor’s Institute on City Design (MICD), an initiative founded in the mid-1980s by the American Architectural Foundation, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and National Endowment for [...]

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Cleveland Gets Serious About Fixing Its Problems

Posted in Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 10/27/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Facing continued economic decline and an ever-shrinking population, Cleveland, which has some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, has come up with an aggressive plan to bring the city back. The new Reimagining Cleveland sustainability vision aims to reinvest in dense urban neighborhoods, build “catalytic infrastructure,” and turn vacant, abandoned lots into green open space, commercial and residential farms, [...]

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Developer Financed, Community Designed

Posted in Gardens, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 10/26/2011 | Leave a Comment »

A 4.2-acre park is slowly taking shape where a huge parking lot now exists on the southwest waterfront in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, the park, which is just a tiny piece of the $1.5 billion, 51-acre redevelopment project moving forward along the Washington Channel, is developer financed but community designed. Developers PN Hoffman and MadisonMarquette responded to community demands for their park to be [...]

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Becoming Greenest: Recommendations for a More Sustainable Washington, D.C.

Posted in Climate Change, Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Education, Environment, Forests, Green Buildings, Green Roofs, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Renewable Energy, Residential Design, Smart Growth, Sustainable Materials, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Waste, Water Management on 10/11/2011 | 2 Comments »

Washington, D.C. leadership has requested input from a range of organizations as it develops a new “unified vision” and “comprehensive framework” for a more sustainable Washington, D.C. The end goal: to connect sustainability with economic development and become the number-one, most sustainable city in North America. Washington, D.C. is currently ranked eighth in a recent [...]

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Walmart Is Coming to D.C. Is This Good or Bad?

Posted in Real Estate Development, Urban Design on 09/14/2011 | 6 Comments »

The D.C. planning department is moving forward with allowing Walmart to set up four new stores within the district. According to a panel at the National Building Museum, there may be some positive and negative impacts with this. Positives: There are food deserts within the district and the new Walmarts, which will emphasize groceries, will increase the [...]

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Out with the Old: The Agile City

Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 08/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »

In The Agile City: Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, James S. Russell, architecture columnist for Bloomberg News, argues against taking a mainstream, business-as-usual-approach to addressing climate change in the U.S. The current global warming debate focuses on harnessing “alternative energies” strategies, like hydrogen-powered cars and biofuels, clean coal, and reinvented [...]

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A Landscape Redone

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 07/14/2011 | 3 Comments »

Blair Kamin, architecture critic for The Chicago Tribune, said Chicago has greatly benefited from its recent high-profile landscape architecture commissions, including Lurie Garden in Millennium Park and the plaza at Trump International Hotel and Tower. While Lurie Garden created a “stylized prairie” in the midst of the city, the plaza evoked a “lush riverbank at [...]

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Landscape Architects Take the Lead in Remaking Cities

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Real Estate Development, Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 07/05/2011 | 2 Comments »

Robert Campbell, architecture critic for The Boston Globe, argues that landscape architecture is no longer just about creating pretty gardens and preserving expanses of forests and rivers anymore, but about reclaiming abandoned urban spaces and transforming them into new public spaces. “Landscape architecture is changing fast. Landscape architects are invading the arenas once dominated by architects and city [...]

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How to Do It: Create a Plan to Transform Red Fields into Green Fields

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 06/29/2011 | 1 Comment »

Los Angeles has beaches and mountains, but the City of Angels is not known for its parks and public spaces. Granted, there are several large open spaces on the outskirts of the city – typically in those places that were too steep or flood-prone for development, and there are a number of small and mid-sized [...]

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