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May 23
Inspiring Urban Places Win Rudy Bruner Award : Inspiration Kitchens in Garfield Park, Chicago, took home the Bruner Foundation’s Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) gold medal, which comes with $50,000 in support for the project....
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May 23
Jinny Blom’s Forget-Me-Not Garden : Jinny Blom, a master landscape and garden designer in the UK, has used a modest space at the Chelsea Garden show to create a rich, multi-layered garden that may also do some good....
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May 22
Preserving Nigeria’s Evil Forests : Throughout history, cultures around the world have created the concept of the evil forest, a dark, scary place where bad things happen....
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May 21
Competition: Create Your City’s Next Great PLAYscape : Which city is the most fun?...
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May 21
Djenne: An Evolving Cultural Landscape : Who manages a cultural landscape that has global importance? Does the United Nations have final say or the local community?...
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May 21
Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (May 5 – 18) :   The Dirt has initiated a new bi-weekly feature highlighting news stories from around the Web on landscape architecture....
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May 14
Nearly Unknown in the West: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Cultural Landscapes : According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye, University of Delaware, “there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn’t somehow implicate the Europeans.” That statement may...
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May 9
Margie Ruddick Takes Home National Design Award : The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced that Margie Ruddick, ASLA, won the National Design Award for landscape architecture....
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May 9
In the Wake of Hurricane Sandy, Design a More Resilient Rockaway : Rockaway, Queens, a low-lying area in New York City, was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, so a fascinating new design competition seeks to create a more resilient and sustainable form of development for t...
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May 8
Wilderness South of Chicago: Beauty Amid Industry : The Calumet region surrounds Chicago and includes Lake Calumet and the Calumet river system....
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May 7
Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (April 21 – May 4) : The Dirt has initiated a new bi-weekly feature highlighting news stories from around the Web on landscape architecture. For more LA in the News, check out LAND, ASLA’s newsletter....
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May 6
In Washington, Native American Communities Plan for Climate Change : While we’ve heard a lot about the transformational climate change adaptation plans of New York City and other big coastal cities, small coastal communities are also creating bold plans for how to hand...
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May 6
Kim Mathews’ Cinderella Stories : In a lecture at the National Building Museum (NBM), Kim Mathews, RLA, ASLA, founding principal Mathews Nielsen, discussed resiliency and renewal through her firm’s “Cinderella projects.” The lecture w...
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May 1
Interview with Kevin Shanley on Protecting Our Coasts : Kevin Shanley, FASLA, is CEO of SWA Group and a long-time resident of Houston. You were recently in Washington, D.C....
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Apr 30
New Video: ASLA Advocates for Change : Last week, ASLA leadership landed on Capitol Hill for their annual advocacy day....
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