What landscape architects need to know. In L.A., recent innovations bolster the case for replacing hardwired streetlights.

What landscape architects need to know. EnviroCollab is a case study of how landscape architecture firms may be warming to ...

“How are you going to be able to communicate this to the installers? The question becomes a big influence for how you might approach the assembly of the script; otherwise you might create outcomes ...

Landscape architecture firms have been embracing alternative business models of late, fueled by young designers questioning traditional norms and firm founders wondering how to pass on their practices ...

Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...

Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...

A zigzagging network of wide paved paths brings pedestrians and cyclists down to the lake. Photo by Jin He-Candido, ASLA. “Everything in Lakeshore East is built up, not down,” says Linda Kozloski, the ...

White characters in What Are We Going to Do, Michael? (1973) tell the story of African American activist Hattie Carthan’s fight to save a southern magnolia tree. In the 1973 children’s story What Are ...

In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, at a community garden baking in the March sun, some herbs struggle up out of cinder block planters, and irrigation lines snake through the beds, which are ...

For nearly a century, a new breed of megaproject has gone unrecognized, and it is now proliferating. These projects, which we have named “mega-eco projects,” are different from old-school megaprojects ...