ASLA is developing a new Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan for the landscape architecture community. A five-member Task ...

In your talk at a conference organized by The Economist, you argued that cities are the solution to climate change, not the problem. What is the case for this? Well, my point of view is that there are ...

Section 1 of the High Line extends over nine city blocks from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street on the west side of Manhattan. View of the Gansevoort entry, looking north. The existing cut at the ...

An overview of the central courtyard in the evening, illustrating the permeability between the architecture and exterior gathering spaces. The Roof Garden is visible through scrim at center. Living ...

Our Work Continues: A Message from Torey Carter-Conneen, ASLA CEO Each day this February, as part of Black History Month, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) highlighted a Black ...

Sixty miles north of New York City, we’ve transformed a postindustrial site into a popular riverfront park, where art, recreation, and environmental education enable visitors to forge deeper ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, thanks to its variety and durability. However, manufacturing cement, the binding material in concrete, is a highly energy and ...

Landscape architecture is at a pivotal moment in its history as a discipline, where design practice is becoming more reflective, adaptive, and scholarly. As the need for sustainable design grows, it ...

Bird’s-eye view of the Garden from the hill. Each rusty steel fence inclines 1 degree more than the last one, creating dreamlike light change; the plants popped their heads from gaps, luxuriantly and ...

The prevalence of low-density, automobile-dependent communities has resulted in unsustainable lifestyles that increasingly threaten human health and well-being. In addition to inflating housing and ...

The existing conditions of the site: a former shooting range, shown as a garbage dump and drainage sink for urban stormwater, heavily polluted with saline–alkali soil, littered, deserted, and ...

New and non-recyclable materials used in homes and landscapes are often not designed to be recycled. These materials can consume enormous amounts of resources to produce and distribute and create ...