Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture: Loss Of Innocence
Metropolis reports that landscape architects have become infected with the 'same pretentiousness as the rest of architecture.'
Coalition Aims To Bring Back Elegance To Downtrodden Area
A coalition of businesses seeks help from landscape architecture students and environmental artist John David Mooney to bring elegance back to a downtrodden area of Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
Book Review: 'The City In Mind'
A review of "The City In Mind: Meditations On The Urban Condition" by James Howard Kunstler
Security Vs. Citizens' Right To Public Spaces
The Capitol steps are closed to the general public for security reasons. Citizens, planners, and historians, oppose the barring of public access to an important national public space and the best view of the Mall.
Kunstler Slams Atlanta
Atlanta has become such a mess that nothing can be done to redeem it as human habitat," Kunstler writes his latest book.
Respected Landscape Architect A. E. Bye Dies At 82
Arthur Edwin Bye, a landscape architect, author, and professor, was the first to advocate use of native plant materials.
Is New Urbanism Living Up To Its Name?
The editor of Landscape Architecture says that many NU projects fall short of their promise in site selection.
Philadelphia Plans Riverfront Revitalization
Philadelphia, PA, hires a landscape architecture firm to develop a comprehensive plan for the North Delaware Riverfront.
Landscape Urbanism
The objective is to create a seamless green urban fabric: fusion, rather than division, is the order of the day.
Award-winning Landscape Architect Dies
M. Meade Palmer, professor, landscape architect, and winner of national design awards died of a heart attack.
Guardian Of The Mall
Landscape architect John G. Parsons of the National Park Service is in charge of protecting the Washington Mall.
Reclaiming Industrial Wasteland
A landscape architect develops innovative way to reclaim industrial sites, and preserve their heritage.
Professionals That Shape Open Spaces
An introduction to the role played by landscape architects, landscape designers, and horticulturalists.
New Urbanism Revolution In Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem has its own high-profile new urbanist architects that have started a most unlikely design revolution.
Innovative Lawns Reconnect Suburbs With Nature
Landscape architects revive the tired traditional lawn with innovative designs that bring natural systems back to the suburbs.
Colorado's 'Fighting Landscape Architects'
Ann Mullins and Mark Johnson are not afraid of red tape and politics. An interview with two landscape architects from Denver, CO.
The Disappearing Lawns
Cities are encouraging a practice long favored by landscape architects, replacing the traditional green lawn with creative and environmentally appropriate alternatives.
Kansas City Planners Bet On A Greener Future
Several ongoing developments aim to make Kansas City more livable by revitalizing the city with open space strategies, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, and a new land-use plan for downtown.
Preserving Historic Landscapes
Important landscape architects are beginning to gain recognition as initiatives strive to preserve historical landscape.
Ian McHarg: Innovative Environmental Thinker
Ian McHarg's groundbreaking ideas changed our thinking about development and laid down the basis for today's computer-based geographic information systems.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
