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Jaime Lerner: “A City Is Like a Family Portrait”

Posted in Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/27/2012 | Leave a Comment »

“A city is like a family portrait. You may not like the nose of your uncle but you don’t tear up the whole family photo. You don’t do this because the family portrait is you. In the same way, we just need to make those uglier parts of our cities more attractive. We can’t tear [...]

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The Future of Public Space: Evolution and Revolution

Posted in Landscape Architecture, National Mall, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 01/12/2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Washington, D.C. National Mall competition is heating up, with finalist teams selected for each site. In a session organized for the finalists by the National Endownment for the Arts (NEA), City Parks Alliance, National Capital Planning Commission, and Trust for the National Mall at the National Archives, Jason Shupbach, NEA Director of Design, said there are many new [...]

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China’s Climate Negotiator: “We Are Serious About Climate Change. We Mean What We Say.”

Posted in Climate Change, Policy and Regulation, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/12/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Su Wei, China’s lead climate negotiator, said that while “climate change is still a sensitive issue” in the United States, China is “serious about climate change. We mean what we say,” at the kick-off of the World Resources Institute (WRI) – National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) partnership focused on creating low-carbon cities in China, Brazil, and [...]

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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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Interview with Kevin Conger, CMG Landscape Architecture

Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Gardens, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Kevin Conger, ASLA, is one of the three founding partners of Conger Moss Guillard (CMG) Landscape Architecture, a San Francisco-based studio. Conger, who is president and CEO of CMG, has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, University of California at Berkeley, and Boston Architectural College. Repurposing more than 480 acres of an old [...]

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Interview with Martha Schwartz

Posted in Climate Change, Gardens, Land Art, Landscape Architecture, Smart Growth, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 11/15/2011 | 1 Comment »

Martha Schwartz, FASLA, is president of Martha Schwartz Partners and professor of landscape architecture practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her most recent book is Recycling Spaces: Curating Urban Evolution: The Work of Martha Schwartz Partners. In 2008, you wrote in BBC News that “landscape architects lag behind architects in the conversation around [...]

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Review: NACTO’s New Urban Bikeway Design Guide

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 10/21/2011 | 2 Comments »

In an effort to create Complete Streets that are also safer for bicyclists, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) announced the release of a new Urban Design Bikeway Guide last week. At the report launch, Janette Sadik-Khan, NACTO president and NYC Transportation Commissioner, Ray LaHood, U.S. Transportation Secretary, and Congressman Earl Blumenauer all emphasized that [...]

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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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Making the Case for Sustainable Streets

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 09/21/2011 | 1 Comment »

Riding high on the announcement of New York City’s bike-share program just a day earlier, NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan gave the keynote lecture at the two-day conference A Roadmap to Sustainable Infrastructure & Green Cities at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Striding through her talk as briskly as New Yorkers like to [...]

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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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