Bayou By Us
Read ArticlesAs the world’s manmade water-control structures rapidly fail and deteriorate, regions, cities, and communities face an unprecedented opportunity to restore our natural waterway systems, which more efficiently support the environment and add far greater cultural, social, and economic gain.
Landscape Infrastructure
Read ArticlesLandscape infrastructure is an evolutionary approach to strategizing economically and environmentally sustainable multipurpose infrastructure systems, reversing urban sprawl and regenerating our invaluable natural resources. As the world faces an urgent need for new and repaired infrastructure systems, design and planning professionals have the crucial opportunity to reimagine networks that support multiple uses and functions.
Landscape Is The Answer
Read ArticlesLandscape architects have changed the world for better, but we are capable of doing much more. I want to see landscape architects rise to the challenges of life today and be recognized for it–broadly. This blog is a collection of my observations and thoughts on the plight of our profession and where we go from here. I hope you find something that interests you.
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Landscape Urbanism
Read ArticlesLandscape urbanism embraces the human and environmental processes that influence city creation, development and longevity. In practice, landscape urbanism is the process of collaborative, complex decision-making about how physical space should be designed. The core ideas of landscape urbanism have been central to landscape architectural practice for decades - a focus on people, process, sustainable systems, flexibility, evolution, on systems interaction, on context and place, and above all, on the complex collaborative design processes by experts in a broad range of fields that lead to design excellence.
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Tall Building Groundscapes
Read ArticlesInnovative groundscapes are the key to transforming skyscrapers into good neighbors that provide positive community contributions and strong connections to the urban fabric. Skyscrapers can contribute to cities and communities in positive ways when design considers the urban context.
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Urban Agriculture
Read ArticlesAs designers, we propose the artful use of agricultural elements into campus landscapes as a way of meeting the needs for beautiful and varied settings in a distinctive landscape environment, while producing healthful fruits, vegetables, nuts and herbs for the benefit of the organization itself and many of its valued audiences. Institutions with campuses are in a unique position to contribute to the food security of their local communities by integrating a more diverse, healthy, beautiful and food-producing planting palette into their landscapes.
Urban Ecologies
Read ArticlesUnderstanding how to design living ecological systems as frameworks for urban environments is at the heart of sustainable environmental design. A connected system starts at the small scale but requires an understanding of the larger systems at play. Thinking at multiple scales, from a design perspective, can improve and influence the design strategies used in our work.
