Florida’s Emerald Trail strides toward a more walkable future.
By Margaret Shakespeare
The trail will create connections to the water and offer opportunities for nature-based play. SCAPE, courtesy Groundwork Jacksonville
McCoys Creek Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, is a major thoroughfare that increasingly is closed to traffic because of flooding, even after a routine afternoon shower. It’s one of many areas in the city that, due to aging infrastructure like undersized pipes and inadequate drainage—particularly in older residential neighborhoods—now experiences chronic flooding events. Continue reading Jacksonville Steps Ahead→
In the first half of the 20th century, Rockefeller Center set new urban design standards. Its features have become New York City cultural fixtures: the Rainbow Room, the Channel Gardens, and the grand promenade leading to the massive, gilded Prometheus statue hovering above the sunken ice rink. Continue reading Sky is the Limit→
A designer and a sculptor deploy an arsenal of digital and industrial tools to produce ContraFuerte.
By Margaret Shakespeare
The sculptor Miguel Horn assembles the first half of ContraFuerte in his West Philadelphia studio. Image courtesy Miguel Horn.
The Philadelphia sculptor Miguel Horn’s latest work may not look particularly technological, but it is the product of a sophisticated design and fabrication process that many landscape architects may recognize. Continue reading Force and Counterforce→
A sophisticated stormwater system elevates Philadelphia’s Girard Avenue interchange.
By Margaret Shakespeare
Around the world, cities are demolishing, burying, or capping their elevated freeways, but an interstate in Philadelphia provides a possible alternative—one in which the highway stays up but connectivity, open space, and water quality are still prized. Continue reading Another Way for Highways→
The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects
