Landscape Architecture

This piece from Next American City looks at plans to dramatically rework streetscapes in Boston, and cheers the effort.

January 19, 2011 - Next American City

An art competition in Salt Lake City has resulted in a new installation to be built in one of the city's vacant lots.

January 19, 2011 - The Salt Lake Tribune

An art gallery in New York City currently has an installation called Park Here, which is an indoor parkspace made up of fake grass, trees and sunlight.

January 17, 2011 - The New York Times

January 17, 2011 - George Haugh

Charles A. Birnbaum bemoans the lack of quality journalism covering landscape architecture, which often gets overshadowed by architecture criticism and shunted into the Home & Garden section of the paper.

January 16, 2011 - The Huffington Post

January 13, 2011 - Tim Halbur

A floating city has been proposed to help ease some of the problems being faced by earthquake-damaged Haiti. But is this the answer the struggling country needs?

January 9, 2011 - The City Fix

As San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom prepares to leave for Sacramento to become Lt. Governor, he praises the latest road diet plan - reducing busy Cesar Chavez St. from 6-4 lanes with landscaped median and bike lanes and views it as part of his legacy

January 7, 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle

New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe talks with Next American City about the city's increased emphasis on creating active public spaces and how his department is handling budget cuts.

December 29, 2010 - Next American City

A new Independence Mall stands in the historic heart of Philadelphia, a decade after the old mall's demolition. According to The Inquirer's Inga Saffron, the new space has been a major boon for tourists but has alienated many city residents.

December 27, 2010 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The next section of New York City's elevated linear park known as the High Line is expected to open next spring. The New York Times offers a preview.

December 21, 2010 - The New York Times

A new book shows that even small parks have the potential to engage social and ecological issues through thoughtful design.

December 15, 2010 - re:place Magazine

Harvard comes out on top for their master of landscape architecture program, while the best bachelor's degree, according to DesignIntelligence, is from Louisiana State University.

December 8, 2010 - ASLA's The Dirt blog

December 2, 2010 - Trent Noll

Since reunification in 1989, many East German cities have been devastated by failing economies and population loss. The Germans, therefore, have a leg up on management strategies for failing cities. Doreen Ritzau takes a tour.

December 2, 2010 - The Architect's Newspaper

Jungles blasted clear during the Vietnam war four decades ago are now at the center of a debate in the country about how forests should be recovered.

December 1, 2010 - Yale Environment 360

As landscape urbanists hover in the exalted world of the designer-hero-genius, Emily Talen asks — where are the people?

November 28, 2010 - New Urban Network

With new fast food restaurants temporarily banned in South L.A. and few new sources of food coming into the area, one local architecture professor set his students loose to work on ideas for a small urban farm.

November 24, 2010 - Los Angeles Times

Flush with federal grants, a new transit plaza and park is set to pop up in Philadelphia.

November 24, 2010 - The Architect's Newspaper

New York City presents three options for transforming the six-lane Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by covering it with vegetation and making streetscape improvements.

November 23, 2010 - The Architect's Newspaper