About the Sustainable SITES Initiative and the SITES Rating System The Sustainable SITES Initiative is a set of comprehensive, voluntary guidelines together with a rating system that assesses the ...

The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan's West Side. Running between Gansevoort and West 30th Streets, the High Line is now one ...

Register Now: https://asla-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/f95ofkKyRGKEaVCXzSptgA This exclusive webinar features a panel of seasoned ASLA Professional Awards jury ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis of surface conditions reveals that over 50 percent of the campus is impervious and over 20 percent is planted in high maintenance lawn. The Landscape Framework Plan integrates development ...

Client: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation ...

The Nanhu site is currently a tapestry of small farms and canals on the edge of Jiaxing, a city of three million. Jiaxing is uniquely positioned between Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, and is ...

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 ...

Are there vertical farms in practice now, or are they all in the concept / design phase? No, there are no vertical farms in existence as we speak. This is now April 2009, but what there are lots of ...

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 ...

Green roofs can help regulate a building’s internal temperature, reduce stormwater runoff, and mitigate the urban heat island effect. Green roofs offer significant economic benefits, including a ...