Who Really Benefits From Central Park?
Central Park is lauded as one of New York's greatest urban achievements, but whom does it actually serve?
Parks
New Eco-Park Packs A Rainforest, Desert, And Penguins In One Building
Ecorium in South Korea is a new ecological park that recreates all of the world's major ecosystems.
Turning Parking Into Parklets Across the U.S.
Urban citizens get a break in tiny public parks
The Landscape Architect's Guide to Boston
As cities become nature-friendly, green spaces sprout everywhere
New Addition at North Carolina Museum of Art Brings Outdoors In
A new addition at a North Carolina museum will pull double duty to accommodate the work inside and out.
Advocating for Play: Saving Philadelphia's Smith Playhouse
A groundswell of play advocacy in Philadelphia
Six Places That Make Their Cities Special
A salute to those special places—some humble, some utterly utilitarian—that give a city its unique personality and collective soul.
In Atlanta, Transforming a Freeway Into a Cultural Greenway
Midtown section of the plan with building labels Freeways have sliced through the hearts of many communities, creating derelict wastelands that destroy neighborhoods and sever connections. Our cities have buried, covered, or dismantled the massive structures required for high-speed…
Four Landscape Projects That Celebrate Their Local Character
What makes a place memorable? How does it connect to its community? Why do people visit—and what makes them come back? We instinctively seek authenticity of locale. Landscape provides a logical instrument for creating authentic regional expressions of place. While…
How Valencia Turned A Crisis (And a River) Into a Transformative Park
Valencia’s Green River, Photography by Brian Phelps. Bold ideas are easy, implementing them is hard. This is particularly true as cities around the world want to use their landscape infrastructure to address the issues they face. How can interventions…
In-Closure: A Park for Seattle That Any Citizen Can Claim
“The [in]-closure project goes far beyond a plain “public space”…it is the place where urban micro-events happen…conveying a social and interdependent economy based on time – a new type of commodity money to chat, debate, help ideas to germinate, be…
Profile: Richard A. Glaser, Timeless Landshaper
Richard A. Glaser is an urban planner and landscape architect. He's worked on everything from a landscaped backyard swimming pool to entire cities in the Middle East. He worked for large Philadelphia offices like Lou Kahn's and for Marcel Breuer…
