When I think of landscape infrastructure, I think of ways in which utility corridors could be maximized. Historically they have been these single use corridors, but now that infrastructure is kind of crumbling and many agencies, both locally and federally, are looking to reinvest, but also let it do more than what it has done… Read more »

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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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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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I was at Harvard yesterday to participate on the student project reviews at the GSD,  and was flattered with an invitation by Craig Verzone to be interviewed for his podcast series, Terragrams, on landscape design.  His series is a nice cross-section of the landscape profession – from academia to practitioners – and he’s interviewed some… Read more »

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