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NYC opens first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Greenway

By Digital Landscaping • Aug 25th, 2010 • Category: Events, Projects

Bloomberg unveils first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park greenway

The first sections of the Brooklyn Bridge Park greenway have opened, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today, connecting Old Fulton Street to Pier 2 along the East River with a 2,000-foot bicycle and walk lane. The 30-foot wide greenway, which is being developed in conjunction with the Brooklyn [...]



Our Cities, Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life

By Digital Landscaping • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Conferences, Congress, Symposiums, Events

Our Cities, Ourselves:
The Future of Transportation in Urban Life – Architects, Developers, and Transport Planners on the Future of Our City.
Saturday Jun. 26, 2010 11:00 AM – 05:00 PM (in 7 days and 19:09 hours.)
Where: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.

The symposium is organized on conjunction with an exhibition at the [...]



ASLA announces 2010 Professional Awards

By Digital Landscaping • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Awards, News

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2010 Professional Awards, representing the best in landscape architecture around the world in the categories of general design, residential design, analysis and planning, research and communication.

Image credit: 2010 Honor Award [...]



United Nations Climate Change Conference

By Digital Landscaping • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Conferences, Congress, Symposiums, Events

Climate Change and COP15 meeting
Statement by the International Federation of Landscape Architects
The International Federation of Landscape Architects encourages the development and adoption of a Global Landscape Convention to assist nations working to address the impact of climate change on the world’s landscapes and people. They offer this idea [...]



Efficient design, inspired by nature

By Digital Landscaping • Nov 29th, 2009 • Category: News

Efficient design, inspired by nature
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Reducing the energy required for heating is a matter of life and death for penguins, [...]



Symposium WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, 16 November

By Digital Landscaping • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Contests, Events

Symposium WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture
16 November 2009
10 AM to 6 PM
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Federal attention to America’s infrastructure is a critical part of our nation’s economic recovery plan, but
we must also consider how that investment in the next generation of bridges, roads, and waterways will
create more sustainable, more engaging, more livable cities. This symposium [...]



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS CREATE NEW SUSTAINABILITY RESOURCE GUIDES

By Digital Landscaping • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: News

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)  has announced a new series of comprehensive online resource guides on sustainable design and planning. Created for national and local policymakers, government agencies, design professionals, planners and students, the guides include hundreds of project case studies, research papers, organizations and other government resources on sustainable design aggregated for [...]