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Nov 20
Call for Papers: MillionTreesNYC Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecology Research Symposium : According to MillionTreesNYC, the purpose of its 2010 research symposium, which will be held March 5-6 in New York City, is to showcase “research and projects that contribute to knowledge on urban lan...
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Nov 20
New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests : Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Aleinov and David Rind, two climate modellers at NASA, argue that foresting the Saharan Desert would “sol...
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Nov 19
Edible Walls Grow in Popularity : The New York Times reports that some building manufacturing firms are moving into the nascent but growing green wall market....
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Nov 19
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Jury on Next Generation Urban Infrastructure : This is part two in a series of posts on the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition. Part one highlights the keynote speech by Ron Sims, Deput...
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Nov 18
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Announces Winners : UCLA cityLAB announced the winners of its WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition, which claims “whoever rules the sewers, rules the city.” “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” by PORT archite...
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Nov 13
World Bank Development Marketplace Selects 26 Winning Climate Change Adaptation Projects : The World Bank Group’s Development Marketplace, an innovative global competition, released the list of 26 winning climate change adaptation projects....
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Nov 13
Green Construction Will Add $554 Billion to U.S. GDP by 2013, Create 8 Million New Jobs : A new study released by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that green building will add $554 billion to the U.S....
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Nov 12
Sydney Harbour Design Competition : Sydney’s city government announced a design competition for a new public domain on Sydney Harbour, including the creation of a “signature headland park” that would be part of a new “world-class” water...
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Nov 12
Chances of Climate Change Summit Success Dim : The United Nations Assocation of the National Capitol Area organized a panel on climate change in Asia at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr....
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Nov 11
Open Air Library in East Germany : Karo Architekten collaborated with local residents of Magdeburg, Germany, to create an open air public library and cultural center and revitilize the community....
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Nov 11
Philly’s Piazza : Inspired by the Piazza Navona in Rome, Bart Blatstein, the president of Tower Investments, created a public square out of an abandoned brewery lot in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of  Philadelph...
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Nov 11
Interview with Paul Morris on Designing Healthy Communities : Paul Morris, FASLA, former president of ASLA, discusses recent efforts by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to fight widespread public health problems through healthy community design....
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Nov 10
ASLA Communications and Advocacy Internship, Spring 2010 : The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is seeking applicants for its 2010 spring semester (January – May) internship program. A spring internship with ASLA provides an excellent opportuni...
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Nov 9
Land Matters: Where Do I Play? : What makes a successful public space, the design or the program?...
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Nov 9
The Effects of Population Growth on Land Use : In an article in Yale University’s Environment 360, Jonathan Foley, Director of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, argues that the global community now faces a “crisis...
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Nov 5
Brisbane’s 470-meter Solar-powered Footbridge : A 470-meter solar-powered footbridge recently opened in Brisbane’s Central Business District, writes Inhabitat....
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Nov 5
Reconnecting a Washington State Park to the Local Community : Gustafson Guthrie Nichols and Allied Works won a design competition to create a park that will span an Interstate and connect a two-block section of Washington State’s Fort Vancouver national historic...
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Nov 5
New Landscape Rating System to Transform the Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle : The Sustainable Sites Initiative released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings....
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Nov 4
Human Responses to Green Design : Frederik Marks, AIA, a partner with AC Martin, an architecture design firm, presented on the varied human responses to green design at the National Building Museum....
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Nov 4
Indiana Town Sees Canal as Sustainable Stormwater Management System and Economic Boost : Jeffersonville, Indiana, plans to change a street near the Ohio River into 40-foot wide canal and 3/4-mile pedestrian promenade....
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Oct 29
Planning Sustainable Communities: “It’s More than Being Green” : The focus of this year’s American Planning Association AICP National Symposium, held at the National Building Museum, was planning sustainable communities....
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Oct 29
The Garden That Climbs Stairs : Now famous for its Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim building, Bilbao continues to come up with unique ideas to revitalize its city center through urban design....
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Oct 28
Interview with Sadhu Johnston, Chicago’s Chief Environment Officer, on the City’s Climate Action Plan : Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environment Officer, Chicago city government, discusses Chicago’s forward-thinking and comprehensive climate action plan at its one-year anniversary....
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Oct 28
A New Response to Climate Change: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives : Barbara Boxer, Senator from California and chair of the Senate committee on the environment and public works, kicked off three days of hearings on the latest version of the Kerry-Boxer climate change...
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Oct 27
Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, Dies at 93 : Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, one of the world’s leading landscape architects, passed away at the age of 93....
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Oct 27
Design It: Shelter Competition Winner Facilitates Immersion in Nature : The Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp announced the winners of their Shelter It design competition....
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