What landscape architects need to know. Gravel paths, wildflowers, and landform barriers in Watts provide much-needed green ...

Eight projects spanning four continents have been selected as 2025 finalists for the prestigious Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize. The prize will be awarded as part of ...

For most kids growing up in Watts, nature is a distant fantasy. This densely populated South Los Angeles neighborhood has roughly half as much tree canopy as the citywide average, and what few parks ...

The African Ancestors Memorial Garden in Charleston, South Carolina, honors the labor and legacy of enslaved people. The ecology of both the South Carolina low country and the African diaspora feature ...

A trail at the Cathedral Close, the 57 acres surrounding the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy Andropogon. “The main Woods…are disastrous,” Carol Kelleher wrote in an annual report ...

A review of a new book on his African Ancestors Garden argues it’s a place of reckoning and release.

Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...

Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...

The “pond” in Lake County, Illinois, shown in May 2021, is subject to a complex legal and regulatory system. Photo by Practice Landscape. At first glance, it was just a pond. Dammed with earth at the ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...