Governors Island is a 172-acre island in the heart of New York Harbor. It is located 800 yards from Lower Manhattan and 400 yards from Brooklyn. The entire groundplane of the south Island will be ...

Your sustainable landscape architecture work is focused on water in urban areas. Please describe a few urban projects that illustrate your approach to designing with water. We have quite a number of ...

(CHU) Concrete Habitat Units: Anywhere, Los Angeles, CA — Examining the latent potential of the singular construction unit in order to construct truly site-adjusted conditions of wildly unique ...

In your new book, "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change," you argue that "urbanism is the foundation for a low carbon future," and the most cost effective solution to climate change, even more so ...

When people think of historic Roxbury, Fort Hill always comes to mind. During the Revolutionary War, Colonial troops were positioned in various high spots around Boston in order to keep an eye out for ...

ASLA's Sustainable Design and Development Professional Practice Network (SDD PPN) is a group committed to ecology-based planning and design and creating landscapes that balance the needs of man and ...

Brownfields are abandoned, environmentally-contaminated industrial or commercial sites. People who come into frequent contact with the leftover solvents, cleaners, and oil found on these sites often ...

The existing conditions of the site: a former shooting range, shown as a garbage dump and drainage sink for urban stormwater, heavily polluted with saline–alkali soil, littered, deserted, and ...

The focus of your organization, the Majora Carter Group is "an asset-based development model," which has been defined as "a green-collar look at the assets comprised in a given municipality or region ...

Landscape architecture combines art and science. It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land. Landscape architecture has strong roots in the U.S., and early examples, such as ...

Philadelphia, PA | D.I.R.T. Studio | Client: URBN, Inc.

Sustainable landscapes are responsive to the environment, re-generative, and can actively contribute to the development of healthy communities. Sustainable landscapes sequester carbon, clean the air ...