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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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Solving the Real Estate Crisis with Parks

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Urban Revitalization on 06/16/2011 | 3 Comments »

Mike Messner, the investment fund manager, is the primary force behind the budding “Red fields to Green fields” movement, which has been picked up by more than 10 major cities in the U.S. The basic idea is to transform toxic real estate into parks, elevating nearby property values, and turning a downward spiral of economic [...]

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New CityCenter Brings Green Public Space to Downtown D.C.

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 04/28/2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 10-acre CityCenterDC, the largest redevelopment project currently underway in any downtown in an American city, looks like a people-centric design. Incorporating a generous new park and central plaza, along with green roofs and gardens set within commercial and residential buildings, the development may present an improved model for how to integrate sustainable design elements into a dense downtown area. The redevelopment of the old DC convention [...]

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Reconnecting Philadelphia to its Riverfront

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 04/13/2011 | Leave a Comment »

In one sesssion at the national Brownfields conference, a number of local officials and development organizations discussed how Philadelphia has taken back its riverfront after years of industrial decline. Over the past 300 years, the center city lost its connection to its two rivers, the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Railroads, expressways, massive industrial sites, and later, toxic [...]

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Streetcars Are Central to Sustainable Communities

Posted in Climate Change, Policy and Regulation, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Sustainable Transportation, Water Management on 02/15/2011 | Leave a Comment »

At the National Building Museum, Patrick Condon, ASLA, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia, gave a run-through of his new book, Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities, which argues that bringing streetcars back is the smartest thing cities can do become more sustainable. For older cities, unearthing “barely submerged” streetcar networks may be easy, but relatively [...]

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What High Speed Rail Means for Community Design

Posted in Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 02/09/2011 | 1 Comment »

In his state of the union address, President Obama called for 80 percent of Americans to have access to high-speed rail by 2025. An ambitous goal, but perhaps more achievable given Vice President Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood just announced the administration was going to invest more than $53 billion in high-speed rail, adding to [...]

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Interview with Peter Calthorpe, Author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Posted in Climate Change, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Smart Growth, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 02/08/2011 | 4 Comments »

Peter Calthorpe, author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, is principal of Calthorpe Associates and was named one of the 25 “innovators on the cutting edge” by Newsweekmagazine for his work redefining models of growth in America. In the early 90’s, Calthorpe developed the concept of Transit Oriented Development (TOD), which was highlighted [...]

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