Reconnect Urban Communities and Environmental Systems
In recent years, authors and educators have identified a growing gap between urban culture and the natural processes that sustain it. The internet and other technologies provide instantaneous access...
View ArticleWhat “Urbanism” is most appropriate for landscape architects?
Hypotheses are plenty when the discussion turns to urban or suburban design, the segment of landscape architecture we find ourselves engaged in. Every decade, it seems, is met with a new notion that...
View ArticleRAISING THE BAR IN URBAN REDEVELOPMENT
There is an enormous body of evidence to support the fact that exercise, fresh air, and contact with nature are important to one’s health and well-being. Those of us who have experienced the joys of...
View ArticleTransforming the suburbs
If you haven’t been paying attention, there is a bit of a housing boom happening right now. For the past few years during the real estate slump we have been hearing about something called “the new...
View ArticleHousing and Community Design, Reimagined
Building on the momentum of a great general session on equitable communities at the 2014 ASLA Annual Meeting and a burgeoning interest in environmental justice, it is time to take a critical look at...
View ArticleWhat Community Design Means to You
Starting in August, we’ve asked ASLA members to comment on their interest and involvement in the practice area of Housing and Community Design. If you haven’t had a chance to do so yet, the survey is...
View Article‘It Takes a Community’
With the theme ‘It Takes a Community,’ the 2016 exhibit from the American Institute of Architects’ Center for Emerging Professionals showcases the work of architecture students, recent graduates, and...
View ArticleHousing for a Changing America
There is a wide gap between the diversity of American households and the housing stock, much of which is homogeneously geared toward nuclear families. Designers working in housing and community design...
View ArticleMissing Middle Housing
The wide gap between the diversity of American households and the housing stock available is widely acknowledged and well-documented. Given demographic trends—more households of single individuals,...
View ArticleA Renewed Focus on Community Design
by the Community Design PPN leadership team ASLA’s Community Design Professional Practice Network (PPN) is the forum for landscape architecture issues in housing and community design, policy, planning,...
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Reflections on Housing Diversity
by Regan Pence, ASLA From a drone flight over Omaha / image: Regan Pence I am a practicing landscape architect in Omaha, Nebraska, and I have grown to love the community and the projects I have been a...
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Dispatches from the Community Design PPN
Apartment residents in the Washington, D.C. area gather on their balconies every Friday to applaud, cheer, and bang pots and pans for healthcare workers and first responders. / image: Alexandra Hay As...
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Rebuilding Small-Scale Community
by Oliver Penny, Student ASLA A proposed design for a cottage court development in Athens, Georgia, featuring a community garden in the foreground. / image: Oliver Penny Although the coronavirus...
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Reviving the Hill, One of the Oldest Residential Neighborhoods in the Steel City
by Udday Shankur Datta, Student ASLA Aerial perspective. The project explores the opportunities to connect the Hill District with downtown Pittsburgh to restore the once vibrant neighborhood that was...
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Envisioning the Future of Community Design for World Landscape Architecture...
2019 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design. Barangaroo Reserve. Sydney, Australia. PWP Landscape Architecture / image: PWP Landscape Architecture Today marks the start of World Landscape...
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Revitalizing an Urban Village: The Example of the Sterling Community
by Thomas Schurch, ASLA A master plan for a portion of the Sterling Neighborhood depicts street upgrades, public spaces including a memorial square at a highpoint of the site, townhouses inspired by...
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Community Design Snapshot
Willoughby Corner in Lafayette, Colorado. / image: BCHA, Norris Design, and HBA Architects, courtesy of Don Ryan This fall, ASLA’s Community Design Professional Practice Network (PPN) solicited updates...
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Call to Participate: IN-FILL PA
by Cynthia Hron, Associate ASLA image: Cindi Hron Designers, Artists, and Design Firms, and Interested Parties: IN-FILL PA wants YOU to participate in an exhibit of designs for in-fill spaces. IN-FILL...
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Survey on the Practice of Community Engagement
by Eric Higbee, ASLA, PLA image: Eric Higbee Do you work with communities? What community engagement practices do you use most often? How do you decide? What barriers or opportunities are there for...
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Reimagining Abandoned Airfields Through Adaptive Reuse
by Anhad Viswanath, Associate ASLA ASLA 2021 Professional Urban Design Honor Award. Xuhui Runway Park. Shanghai, China. Sasaki / image: Insaw Photography This post discusses “Reed City’s Exhilarating...
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