Robert Hewitt, FASLA, at Clemson University leads students and colleagues through a studio project where they designed a satellite city outside Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began. Image courtesy Robert Hewitt, FASLA.
Even before the latest round of social distancing efforts and shelter-in-place orders began to shut down American communities, colleges and universities were making plans to finish their semesters online. And for some courses, the transition is trickier than for others. Continue reading Teaching and Learning Online, By Force→
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Darren Damone, ASLA, and Katharine Griffiths were standing on a boardwalk at Avalon Park & Preserve, in Stony Brook, New York, looking across the pond at a gang of cormorants loitering in the branches of a beech tree. Continue reading No Us and Them→
Why a Maryland landscape architect restores brook trout habitat in his free time.
By Jared Brey
Scott Scarfone, ASLA, a landscape architect at Kimley-Horn, coordinates a trout conservation partnership in the Upper Gunpowder Falls Watershed. Photo by Scott Scarfone, ASLA.
The underbelly of an eastern brook trout, especially when it is spawning, is orange and pink like a sunrise, and its back is dappled brown and green like a forest floor. Continue reading One Fish, More Fish→
After two rare storms inundate Ellicott City, Maryland, the town tries to sort through what can be saved.
By Jared Brey
The Hudson Bend portion of the plan was meant to provide development opportunities as well as flood mitigation and new public space. Image courtesy Mahan Rykiel.
The Tiber-Hudson watershed, in Howard County, Maryland, drains three-and-a-half square miles of mostly developed land in and around Ellicott City, a historic mill town founded in 1772 on the banks of the Patapsco River. Continue reading Twice Bitten→
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