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Places Journal: I don’t know when the myth of landscape architects as climate saviors began, but I know it’s time to kill it. The New Landscape Declaration — a book emerging from a 2016 summit attended by the brightest thinkers in our field — frames landscape architecture as an “ever more urgent necessity,” if not the foundation of […]

The Patch: The city released hundreds of pages of documents regarding Manhattan’s east side resiliency project Friday — including possible mitigations for open space, recreation facilities and bike lanes while the East River Park is undergoing construction for the storm protection plan. A draft environmental impact statement for the storm protection project was released Friday —

CNA Luxury: Saving the planet. It’s not just the subject of passionate political debate. It’s at the heart of a growing number of museum exhibitions this year, including the works of old masters and exhibits built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and a desire to respond to environmental challenges. Among the shows: The much-anticipated Hudson Rising

Fox 10: This morning the City of Fairhope turned to its citizens to ask them what they see for the future of the K-1 Center property. The city agreed to purchase the K-1 Center in March, taking on a project that has been a long time in the making. After some complaints about lack of public

Ligniappe Weekly: The city of Fairhope is hosting a community discussion on the future of its K-1 Center Wednesday, but at this point the property still belongs to the Baldwin County School Board. The fom1er school building is one of three properties the city has agreed to purchase from the school board, but while the $4

Fast Company: Janette Kim started designing board games about climate change after working on scenario planning with her architecture students at Colombia University–and seeing that the typical process, which architects and many cities use to make decisions, was fairly boring. Board games brought the scenarios to life. “They’re great at mixing together a lot of complexity

Daily News: Mayor de Blasio proposed extending the South Street Seaport area by two city blocks into the East River — part of a $10 billion effort to fend off rising sea levels as a result of climate change. “We had to find something that would work, no matter how expensive or ambitious it was,” de

New York Magazine: Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City. The storm put 51 square miles of it under water. Seventeen thousand homes were damaged or destroyed. Forty-four New Yorkers lost their lives. We don’t debate global warming in New York City. Not anymore. The only question is where to build the barriers