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It’s Time to Get Political

07/06/201607/07/2016The Dirt ContributorLeave a comment

Social justice. Environmental stewardship. Enduring aesthetic beauty. An expanded role for landscape architects. These were the predominant themes in the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)’s Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. These goals…

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Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation

Everything You Wanted to Know About Tactical Urbanism

05/19/201508/09/2019Jared GreenLeave a comment

Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, a new book by urban planners Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia is the first book to really organize all the small fixes that seem to have spontaneously sprung up in so many communities…

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Cities, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Redevelopment

Hug a Tree for 15 Minutes (and Complain to It)

12/17/202012/24/2020Jared Green1 Comment

After this challenging year, Marina Abramović, perhaps the world’s most famous performance artist, recommends everyone vent their frustrations to a favorite tree in a public park. She tells you to hug one tightly for no less than 15 minutes and…

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Art, Environment

Explore the Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

08/25/202008/26/2020Jared GreenLeave a comment

The French landscape architect Michel Desvigne isn’t well-known in the U.S. but a new monograph of his firm’s work from the publisher Birkhäuser should help change that. Transforming Landscapes: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste beautifully conveys Desvigne’s simple yet striking parks, plazas,…

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Cities, Green Infrastructure, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces

How to Reintegrate the Homeless into Their Communities

12/02/201912/04/2019Ian DillonLeave a comment

A survey of homeless individuals by Downtown Streets Team yielded one overwhelming response: they felt completely ignored as human beings. At the ASLA 2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Diego, Brian Elliott, policy analyst for San Diego Councilmember Chris…

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Cities, Inclusive Design

The Case for Complete Streets 2.0

10/08/201910/08/2019Jared Green1 Comment

Complete streets are designed to create safe access for all people — pedestrians and bicyclists, motorists and public transit riders. But at the Urban Land Institute’s fall meeting in Washington, D.C., Brad Davis, a principal at Alta Planning + Design,…

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Cities, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation

In 19th Century Argentina, Nature Served Eugenic Agenda

07/01/201912/15/2020Jared Green1 Comment

From the 1860s to the 1930s, Argentina welcomed some 3.5 million European immigrants as workers in its growing meat production industry. Argentinian policymakers sought to improve the hygiene of the cattle slaughtered but also the “social hygiene” of the incoming…

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Health + Design, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces

More than 150 Cities Compete to Document Wild Urban Nature

05/10/201908/08/2019Jared Green1 Comment

In 2016, Lila Higgins at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Alison Young at the California Academy of Sciences started a friendly competition to see which of their cities — Los Angeles or San Francisco — could…

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Cities, Wildlife

The Pioneers of Postwar Landscape Architecture

01/29/201901/30/2019Aaron KingLeave a comment

Shaping the Postwar Landscape, edited by Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, founder and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), and Scott Craver is the fifth in a series of books that serve as an encyclopedia of landscape architects and allied professionals…

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Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Residential Design

Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (December 16 – 31)

01/07/2019J.R. TaylorLeave a comment

Rebuilding a City from the Eye of a Child – CityLab, 12/17/18 “The ambitious mayor of Tirana, Albania, is selling a wary constituency on economic transformation by putting kids at the forefront of his agenda.” Climate Gentrification: Is Sea Rise…

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Cities, Climate Change, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces
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