While the preservation of historical landmarks has been made feasible and codified through organizations such as National Park Services and UNESCO, we sense the need of new approaches for ...

During the past few decades, the concept of historic preservation has grown beyond protecting a single building or urban district to include the historic landscape that provides the setting and ...

Toronto, ON, Canada | Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates | Client: Waterfront Toronto in Partnership with Toronto Region Conservancy Authority (TRCA) and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) ...

3D model of the Greenway and its transforming process: making use of different altitudes between the Luan River bed and the city, the project creates a water-centered public space integrating ...

Gowanus Canal Bulkhead — Former industrial corridor has deteriorated due to lack of need for water transportation and years of neglect. Polluted Gowanus Canal — Contaminants in the water include ...

The linear wetland in the middle of the park with terraces covered by a variety of native grasses and wetland plants (view facing north). The terraced wetland is heavily planted to clean the ...

Our Work Continues: A Message from Torey Carter-Conneen, ASLA CEO Each day this February, as part of Black History Month, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) highlighted a Black ...

A number of your projects have won ASLA design awards over the years -- most recently, the Fountain Promenade at Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. This park was dedicated by the King of Spain in 1530.

New and non-recyclable materials used in homes and landscapes are often not designed to be recycled. These materials can consume enormous amounts of resources to produce and distribute and create ...

Site Challenges and Arroyo watershed. The one of the biggest challenges for the design is to use the arroyo watershed to organize community with consideration of the future users and the sustainable ...

About the Sustainable SITES Initiative and the SITES Rating System The Sustainable SITES Initiative is a set of comprehensive, voluntary guidelines together with a rating system that assesses the ...

Washington, DC, USA | Team: Scott Shinton, Associate ASLA; Mary McCall, Associate ASLA; Anna Cai, Architecture; Stephen Grotz, Architecture; Owen Weinstein ...