St. Louis spends upwards of $200,000 a year mowing the city’s vacant lots. A winner of the inaugural Sustainable Land Lab Design Competition, the Sunflower+ Project aims to rethink vacant land by planting fields of sunflowers that can remediate the soil and bring in some extra income. (Sam Fox School)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
- Laurie Olin shares tales from what life was like growing up in Alaska to his journey through landscape architecture in this illuminating half-hour podcast with the National Endowment for the Arts. (OLIN)
- St. Louis spends upwards of $200,000 a year mowing the city’s vacant lots. A winner of the inaugural Sustainable Land Lab Design Competition, the Sunflower+ Project aims to rethink vacant land by planting fields of sunflowers that can remediate the soil and bring in some extra income. (Sam Fox School)
- Landscape architecture students get a hands-on learning experience with stream assessment science–a subject that deserves a better understanding by landscape architects. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)
& RELATED
- Sarah Goodyear explains how our street design is killing a childhood pastime. (Atlantic Cities)
- Great news cyclists! The Federal Highway Administration may be giving its blessing to physically separated bike lanes that could eventually integrate into the two bibles of US road design: the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. (Streetsblog)
- The number of young non-drivers may still be in the minority–you can count me in that mix!–but that number is part of a growing trend that will have serious implications for future transportation policy and land use planning. (Washington Post)
- Developers are starting to offer “garden-ready” amenities to homebuyers. (Denver Post)
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