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

“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 ...

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

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 ...

What landscape architects need to know. Ruderal’s landscape on the outskirts of the Georgian capital celebrates imprecision ...

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 ...

Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...

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 ...

“Oh, no. My phone is dead. Better head to the park.” Walk past the basketball court down at Anita Stroud Park, toward the little creek below, and you might find a gaggle of teens clustered around a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates used Thermory, a thermally modified lumber, for a deck at Wellesley College. They found radial cuts easier with Thermory than with hard, dense tropical hardwoods.