Landscape Architecture

Renewal Sought For Historic Mexico City District

City trust and private developer are working to revive an area of Spanish-colonial housing.

September 14, 2002 - The Economist

Understanding the Impact of 9-11 On Our Cities

September 10, 2002 - Abhijeet Chavan

Attack Of The Giant Billboards

Important buildings in Poland's cities are being covered up by giant billboards.

August 15, 2002 - BBC News

Combining Architecture And Nature

How can nature be more an intergral part of architecture?

August 8, 2002 - MetropolisMag.com

Ikea Builds Russia's Biggest Mega-mall

Russia's biggest mall is being constructed on the Moscow outskirts by Ikea.

July 11, 2002 - BBC News

Tourism Planning In Spain - Past & Future

The BBC's Madrid correspondent meets Pedro Zaragoza, the man credited with starting mass tourism on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

July 4, 2002 - BBC News

Green Groups Scare Away Dracula Theme Park

Opposition from environmental groups has prompted the Romanian government to abandon plans for a Dracula theme park in the Transylvanian town of Sighisoara.

June 28, 2002 - BBC News

Designing For Security

The American Planning Association, the American Institute of Architects and American Society of Landscape Architectshave formed a coalition to advocate the need to balance security and aesthetics.

June 19, 2002 - The Washington Post Writers Group

City Restores Olmsted's Legacy

A million-dollar project will restore Frederick Law Olmsted's parkway system in Buffalo, NY,

June 11, 2002 - The Buffalo News

Would You Live Next To A Nimby?

Are Nimby's good for planning or not? BBC Online gives a UK perspective.

May 22, 2002 - BBC News

The Future Of Los Angeles: Hopeless

At a forum in Los Angeles, architect Frank Gehry says he has given up on Los Angeles.

April 9, 2002 - LA Weekly

Backyard Nature Is Expensive

The Wall Street Journal investigates what it takes to create a 'natural' backyard.

April 7, 2002 - Wall St. Journal

New Theme Park Opens In Bangladesh

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, gets a multiple-million dollar theme park.

April 2, 2002 - BBC News

Landscape Architecture: Loss Of Innocence

Metropolis reports that landscape architects have become infected with the 'same pretentiousness as the rest of architecture.'

March 21, 2002 - MetropolisMag.com

Coalition Aims To Bring Back Elegance To Downtrodden Area

A coalition of businesses seeks help from landscape architecture students and environmental artist John David Mooney to bring elegance back to a downtrodden area of Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

February 27, 2002 - The Chicago Tribune

Book Review: 'The City In Mind'

A review of "The City In Mind: Meditations On The Urban Condition" by James Howard Kunstler

February 27, 2002 - The New York Times

Security Vs. Citizens' Right To Public Spaces

The Capitol steps are closed to the general public for security reasons. Citizens, planners, and historians, oppose the barring of public access to an important national public space and the best view of the Mall.

January 31, 2002 - The Washington Post

Kunstler Slams Atlanta

Atlanta has become such a mess that nothing can be done to redeem it as human habitat," Kunstler writes his latest book.

January 25, 2002 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Respected Landscape Architect A. E. Bye Dies At 82

Arthur Edwin Bye, a landscape architect, author, and professor, was the first to advocate use of native plant materials.

December 19, 2001 - The New York Times

Is New Urbanism Living Up To Its Name?

The editor of Landscape Architecture says that many NU projects fall short of their promise in site selection.

December 5, 2001 - American Society Of Landscape Architects

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