Gardens & Landscapes

urban agriculture

San Agustín, a parish in Caracas is known for open plots of land where the hillside is too steep for habitation. A group of activists has started building garden plots to help reduce the burden of an extremely high cost of living.[read more]

city parks governance

The most important element of business model innovation for parks right now is around governance. Park visitors want so much more from their experience than one public agency can manage.[read more]

green cities

The essential elements of green cities on display in a fast-moving cartoon video, created in conjunction with the Vancouver 2020 “Greenest City” planning process.[read more]

greenway in Oahu, HI

Can landscape architecture ameliorate public-private conflicts? How can these buffers protect landowners’ privacy without encumbering public access to shared spaces?[read more]

Sure, you may already know the answer to the question of how trees transport water up to such incredible heights. But this video from Veritasium is still worth it.[read more]

property values

Property liability insurance companies say they have been hurting: their profit margins have been at best, razor-thin, for years. And it has been worse since the economic downturn and the apparent increase in natural disasters.[read more]

urban farming

Design Trust put together a metrics framework that measured the associated activities of urban agriculture with the known benefits derived from various studies to convince city officials of urban farming's positive impacts.[read more]

city parks/shutterstock

City park conservancies are most often partners to local or state governments who own parkland. Land trusts, on the other hand, either own their land or a conservation easement. Is it a question of land or people?[read more]

alloting garden spaces

Capacity utilization is a key term in business and an increasingly important term with regards to sustainability. The way in which cities utilise space is becoming a far more pressing issue in today’s world.[read more]

public gardens

Studies show that gardens soothe medical patients. It isn’t much of a leap to see that gardens with walkways, benches and the gentle hum of falling water would have similar effects in other public facilities.[read more]

urban forestry

Toronto has one of the most ambitious urban forestry plans in North America, having set a goal of increasing the overall tree canopy from 17 percent to 40 percent.[read more]

pocket parks

When one thinks of a park, one usually imagines a large plot full of trees in the centre of the city. But what happens in cities where green spaces are vital, but there is no free for such uses?[read more]