Landscape infrastructure is an evolutionary approach to strategizing economically and environmentally sustainable multipurpose infrastructure systems, reversing urban sprawl and regenerating our invaluable natural resources. As the world faces an urgent need for new and repaired infrastructure systems, design and planning professionals have the crucial opportunity to reimagine networks that support multiple uses and functions. Multipurpose… Read more »

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SWA is currently working with the Environmental Charter High School in Hawthorn on a project on the Dominguez Creek Waterway. This project is part of a larger Initiative that was created in 2010 in memory of Patrick Curran, a former SWA employee. The Patrick Timothy Curran Initiative (PTCI) has pledged its efforts to this project… Read more »

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Planning is well underway for the “Flash Flood” event along Houston’s White Oak Bayou at Studewood Park on February 28th. There are a lot of details still to be determined, but we are working with local schools to help teach students about our bayous and their significance to life in Houston, and to encourage student… Read more »

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Last month, the Army Corp of Engineers opened the Morganza Spillway – effectively flooding farmlands, homes and communities – in order to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This was only the second time that the spillway has been opened its history. As I describe in my post on MetropolisPOV, this is not a remarkable… Read more »

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Currently organization is underway to implement an installation art project depicting the physical influence that the one hundred year flood event has on the urban landscape. While “Flood Insurance Rate Maps” (FIRMs) are a standard measure of flood influences in the region, these forces can be difficult to understand in the physical landscape. This project… Read more »

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“A Citizen’s Forum for Engaging Houston’s Most Significant Open Space System” Historically, water has shaped the broad expanses of the Houston region, watershed by watershed, culminating in the city’s most debated landscape feature, its Bayous. If one lives in our self proclaimed “Bayou City”, how are we as individuals understanding, preserving, enhancing, degrading and generally… Read more »

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