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Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes, 4-star SITES Certified project / Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES)
The Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has launched its newly acquired Sustainable...
An article from archinect on a lecture that highlights the plight of most african Architecture and its resultant urbanism – made from “pieces of left over” from late modernism which all developing countries...
A very personal view – and interview with Adrain Geuze of West posted from laud8:
Rotterdam, Holland’s second city, is known around the world as the home of Europe’s biggest port. But in the world of landscape...
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers – this long essay by Sam Bloch in PLACES JOURNAL could just as well apply...
From a a discussion on LinkedIn here is Kevin Songer’s post of a “Natural” Green Roof “, in France, very much like what are called “Earth Roof” elsewhere. I could well imagine replacing the Arundo reed...
From Bustler this new competition winning entry which includes Danish Landscape Architects SLA, whose Stig L. Andersson whose transformation of urban spaces to create the experience of nature rather than...
Information on the latest Un-Habitat report on the State of the Worlds Cities from SustainableCitiesCollective by Maggie Comstock
Photo credit: Chernivtsi Online via Flickr
While green buildings,...
We need to understand how the future we are all so busy imagining and designing will be made possible in an era of reduced public spending on the very projects and infrastructures that are so desperately...
A potential alternative for Space Syntax analysis of urban form has been released by MIT’s City Form Research Group. This will be of interest to many researchers and urbanists who wish to understand more...
10/22/2015Jared Green
Steven Nygren is the founder of Serenbe, which has won numerous awards, including the Urban Land Institute Inaugural Sustainability Award, the Atlanta Regional Commission...