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Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (August 15 – 31) 27 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
For more LA in the News, check out LAND, ASLA’s newsletter. If you see others you’d like included, please email us at info@asla.org. Q&A: Kim Mathews and Signe Nielsen – Metropolis, 8/15/13 “Here th...
New Video: FDR Four Freedoms Park 22 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
Photographer and video artist Barrett Doherty has created a beautiful 10-minute video that provides an vivid, experiential tour of the 4-acre Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York C...
Lasers. Music. A Forest. – Well, You’ve Got Our Attention 21 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
Forest, a 5,000-square-foot project from the recent STRP biennal in Eindhoven, Netherlands, is a completely interactive, stunning work of light art. According to This Is Colossal, “this latest install...
Near Certainty: Humans Are Behind a Warming Planet 21 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
A leaked draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international group of hundreds of scientists, 195 governments, and more than 100 non-governmental organizations, furt...
In Seattle, Bike Lanes Are Good for Business 20 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
The debate on whether new bike lanes help or hurt business among street-level retail stores, bicycle advocates, local transportation departments, and politicians is nothing new. Seeing the same proble...
Los Angeles Finally Allows Parkway Farming 14 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
During the past month, debate over the legality of planting vegetables in public, residential parkways was raging once again in Los Angeles. The Lose Angeles Times reported on the battle between two u...
DIY Vertical Gardening 13 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Who knew? You can turn those leftover soda bottles into a vertical garden with some supplies and a bit of crafting skills. This is Do-It-Yourself (DIY) vertical gardening. This concept come to us fro...
Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (August 1–15) 13 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
For more LA in the News, check out LAND, ASLA’s newsletter. If you see others you’d like included, please email us at info@asla.org. 24 Surprising Plant Combos – Sunset Magazine, August 2013 “Floral...
SITES Certifies Eight More Projects 13 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) has announced eight new projects that have achieved certification under the nation’s most comprehensive rating system for the sustainable design, constructio...
Serious New Funding for Innovative Research on Restorative Urban Nature 7 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
According to the TKF Foundation, more than 80 percent of the U.S. population and 50 percent of the global population now live in urban areas. To ensure people can live in dense environments packed wit...
