From the High Line in New York City to the new Steel Yard park in Providence, landscape architects are bringing about projects that are having a huge impact on cities, writes ASLA - particularly when it comes to revitalizing brownfields:
"More and more, landscape architects are asked to delve into the 'wreckage of America's industrial past,' which they are now treating as a new kind of landscape with its own set of opportunities. 'They're learning how to reclaim our abandoned waterfronts, collapsing mills, and polluted river systems, sites that are littered with detritus and usually sick with the toxic waste left behind by some failed industry.'"