How the helpmates of HOPE VI see housing in the Trump Administration
By Zach Mortice
The founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) started off with a bang. Continue reading New Urbanism, New HUD
The founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) started off with a bang. Continue reading New Urbanism, New HUD
The Obama Foundation on January 30 announced the selection of three landscape architecture firms to work on the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago—a nationally renowned firm, a regional Chicago powerhouse headed by a native South Sider, and a lesser-known firm that has worked on previous presidential library landscapes. Continue reading Obama’s Landscape Legacy Takes Shape
Avenida Houston was designed to celebrate the flyway paths of migratory birds and the vibrant energy economy that has made Houston attractive to domestic and international migrants alike. Continue reading Migration Machine at Main Street
Over the course of two years, the Spanish architect Jose Ahedo visited livestock farming landscapes in eight countries: Mongolia, China, Paraguay, Germany, India, Bolivia, New Zealand, and the Azores Islands in Portugal. He traveled 90,000 miles by plane, 9,000 miles by car, 23 miles by boat, nine miles by horse and camel, and—most excruciatingly for a vertigo sufferer like Ahedo—56 miles by hot air balloon. Continue reading Livestock and the Rhythm of the Land
In a city beset by a nearly incomparable foreclosure crisis and 20 square miles of vacant land, there’s been a growing understanding that landscape architecture and Detroit are perfect for each other. But in 2017, the city will unveil a handful of new proposals on how the discipline can grow back healthy urbanism in the Motor City. Continue reading Detroit and the Landscape Tipping Point
Labyrinths and mazes are meandering ways to get from one place to another. As such, they’ve mostly been placed in the arena of baronial garden follies like topiary: trimmed hedges, a gazebo at its center, some ducks in a pond, and a high five once you’ve successfully traversed from point A to B. Continue reading Within and Without, Labyrinths Meet in Nature
Argyle Street, on Chicago’s Far North Side, is a sort of small-town main street in the big city. Continue reading Argyle Street Gives Back