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White House launches Urban Affairs website

The White House launched the Office of Urban Affairs website including a blog and Innovations and Ideas page where US citizens can submit ideas and best practices. This is a follow up to the Urban Tour which included 9 city centers and the Inter-Agency working group on urban policy.
The OUA blog states that the launch [...]

$2.2 billion for Great Lakes Restoration: EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency will spend $2.2 billion over five years on the Great Lakes to clean up polluted water and beaches, restore wetlands and fight invasive species such as Asian carp in a revitalization effort.
In 2010 $475 million is budgeted under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan.
The Initiative builds upon 5 years of [...]

Favorite Landscape Architecture Poll – Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is currently undertaking a poll to gauge readers favorite landscape architecture from across America.
Currently the Leader is Central Park, NY followed by Millenium Park in Chicago and then Academy of Sciences rooftop.
Other landscapes included in the poll is the Great Orange County Park, The Highline and Citygarden St.Louis.
Go vote for your favorite [...]

Adams-Sangamon park breaks ground

Gazette Chicago reports
What made the recent groundbreaking for the new park at Adams and Sangamon Streets, currently known as Park 542, so “exciting” is “the new design,” said Chris Gent, deputy director of planning and development for the Chicago Park District.
Landscape architect Ernie Wong from Site Design Group was on site for the groundbreaking, along [...]

MVVA selected for northern end of Grant Park

Chicago Journal reports
A Brooklyn-based landscape architecture firm has been recommended to lead the revamp of the northern end of Grant Park, one of the most prominent — and, in recent times, most contentious — public spaces in Chicago.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. will plan an area that includes the Grant Park site of the Chicago [...]

ASLA 2009 - Day 1 - Sustainable Cities - Which way to success?

thanks for reading moving to next session will be updating the links and names at the end of the day
9:24am Water use reduction – low flow, EPA water fixtures. Stormwater Run Off – infiltration of 25% of run off, Rain gardens, bio swales, shared rain garden across a whole block. City Services – deliver energy [...]

Things to do during ASLA 2009

Whilst in Chicago I am making a list of things to see and do whilst here
1. Learn something new at the Meeting
2. Meet new people and see new things at the Expo
3. Walk under the Cloud Gate at Millennium Park
4.Visit the Chicago Botanical Garden
5. Splash in the water infront of the Crown Fountain (one of [...]

ASLA 2009 Meeting

Have you always wondered what an American Society of Landscape Architects Annual meeting was like? The 2009 ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo starts tomorrow, this year World Landscape Architect is going to give you an insight into the some of the 150 events over the next few days.
Sadly this will interrupt our usual coverage of [...]

ASLA 2009 Chicago Keynote by EPA Associate Administrator

Lisa Heinzerling, associate administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency`s (EPA) Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, will serve as the
closing keynote speaker at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
2009 Annual Meeting and EXPO, September 18-21, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
The closing general session takes place on September 21 at 3:00 PM and is
sponsored by [...]

Save on 2009 ASLA Meeting + Expo

Register by this Friday, August 14, and save up to $60 on registration for the 2009 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO, September 18-21, in Chicago.
Registration for the meeting is outpacing 2008, indicating attendance in Chicago could be the largest in ASLA history.
Choose from more than 125 sessions—a record in the history of ASLA—to [...]

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