1938-la-river

The city of Los Angeles acts as a natural flood basin where the surface flows that come from the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountain ranges travel across the city to reach the Pacific Ocean.  This natural system experiences an occasional 100 year flood, where water reaches extreme levels. In 1938, the city experienced the… Read more »

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meet-at-bayou

When dry, the banks of Houston’s Buffalo Bayou offer open air, green meadows and winding waters for crowds of people to enjoy along with gorgeous skyline views of downtown. While primarily designed to accommodate floodwaters, the large meadows that are formed between the lower and upper bayou banks also host thousands of people during festivals… Read more »

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We have found a wonderful use for some beautiful trees that were felled during Hurricane Ike – we are planting them.  And yes, we know they won’t grow back. [Watch the short video.] Our Houston office is restoring Flewellen Creek as a part of an eco-community we are designing in Fulshear, Texas. The waterway had… Read more »

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Which vessels sink and which ones float?  Houston’s bayous are good for more than draining our floodwaters, they are also places for play. The Rice Design Alliance (RDA) knows this and we were happy to attend the second annual Anything That Floats event on April 28 at Sesquicentennial Park along Buffalo Bayou. Sponsored by the… Read more »

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Houston, “The Bayou City,” has had a tense relationship with its bayous and their floodplains. As with any city with much of its development in the floodplain, flooding is always a very real risk — and it isn’t just an infrastructure problem. It is a PR problem. [This post originally appeared on the American Planning Association’s Kid’s… Read more »

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persistant-vision

A hundred years ago, landscape architect Arthur Comey proposed Houston’s first comprehensive city plan. In his plan, Comey envisioned the city’s bayous overlaid with a network of parks and trails. As he wrote, the “bayous and creek valleys readily lend themselves to trails and parks and cannot so advantageously be used for any other purpose.”… Read more »

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