ASLA's The Dirt blog

NASA scientists are floating the idea that turning deserts on the equator into lush forests could single-handedly end global warming.

So says William Schroeer the State Policy Director at Smart Growth America, speaking at the High Speed Rail Conference in D.C. last weekend.

The American Society of Landscape Architects interviews Sandra James, City and Greenways Planner with the City of Vancouver, about her city's innovative practices.

HOK is designing a brand-new, 8,000-acre city in India, and is taking design inspiration from a desert cactus.

A new report claims that Central Park in New York added $1 billion to the economy in 2007, and the new High Line park added $4 billion in new real estate developments.

The American Society of Landscape Architects has released an extensive online guide to resources for sustainable urban development.

A paper published earlier this year by a team of professors argues that cities need to learn to become more resilient as resources become more scarce.

A new building going up in China is will be the as long as the Empire State Building is high. It will also be raised on columns to create a parkland underneath, giving the impression that it is floating.

Environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, famous for the orange 'Gates' project in Central Park, are planning to run a 5.9 mile silver cloth over a whitewater river in Colorado. Environmentalists aren't happy about it.

Bill Thompson of the ASLA reports on a public space in Silver Spring, Maryland that upends everything landscape architects and planners think they know about what makes a successful public space.