As communities and demographics shift rapidly in the United States, landscape architects are responsible for creating and curating progressively more urban spaces for increasingly diverse communities. In an era of extreme ...

Urban green stormwater infrastructure facilities come in many forms, which include variation in the number and types of plant species. How plant diversity in stormwater facilities is perceived and valued by the public, ...

In seeking to develop a design approach inspired by African American culture, jazz emerged as a deep source of creativity in art and design. This project looks at the invariable features of jazz—improvisation, syncopation, ...

Federal-tribal collaborations in resource management are becoming more common, but successes are difficult to duplicate and recommendations for future partnerships are often vague, nontransferable, or dependent on a ...

Climate change, capitalism, globalism, densification of cities, and the rise of large scale monocrop farming have created an environmental landscape of food instability and a lost opportunity for human connection to and ...

This project sought to explore ways in which algorithmic modeling may lend a methodology to the landscape architecture design process. Specifically, a computational design framework originating from industrial engineering ...

Ecological restoration is a field that is constantly evolving as we learn more about how much we do not know about our surroundings. This research looks at the potential to co-create with native animals as a way to provide ...

In consideration of climate change and the increasing trend of extreme weather events, communities see more urgent needs for preparation, especially for protecting their vulnerable populations. Given the growing climate ...

Many US cities are experiencing exceptionally high housing costs and housing shortages, this is especially true in California, where housing costs greatly exceed those of the rest of the nation. State law-makers and ...

Landscape architects have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation through natural climate solutions that sequester carbon in ecosystems. However, landscape architects lack resources on how to design landscapes ...