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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 ...

Any residential landscape can be designed to both reduce flooding during storms and conserve water in times of water scarcity. Homeowners can use green infrastructure approaches, like bioswales and ...

The Upper Lake Pontchartrain basin. A coastal superorganism comprised of approximately 1 million people engaged in the consumption, transformation, and transportation of phosphorus. Locations of ...

Piers Park plays important dual roles as both a significant neighborhood park and a city-wide destination park. The original seawalls were built in 1870 and the current park was completed in 1995. The ...

Topics Covered: This video educates young children about bicycle safety including why they should wear a bicycle helmet and how to ride safely on city streets.

Landscape architecture combines art and science. It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land. Landscape architecture has strong roots in the U.S., and early examples, such as ...

When Portland and Suzhou became sister cities in the late 1980s, the dream for a classical Chinese garden in Portland was born and a newly-formed non-profit began to plan and design the garden.

Tulatoli Primary School is situated some 80 miles from Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Children’s drop-out rates and low attendance levels at primary schools being the main concern, the school ...

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience last fall to offer communities strategies for adapting to global climate change and ...

Roof produced a 10 percent decrease in building energy use over the winter months. The temperature on the green roof on the hottest summer days can be as much as 59 degrees cooler than conventional ...

The home’s interior space flows out into the garden. The steel framed door and window panels of the living room and adjacent dining room frame the outdoors where the lush plantings are visible ...