Landscape Architecture In the News
A sampling of recent press coverage of landscape architecture. Keyword terms are noted by ">>>" and "<<<" marks.

Political Press Releases                                 
Yahoo! News
Date: 04/23/08

This Earth Day, the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< (ASLA) encourages Congress to support the Energy Conservation Through Trees Act, introduced today by Representative Doris Matsui (CA-5). The bill will help lower energy usage and utility bills through planting residential shade trees.

REP. MATSUI INTRODUCES ENERGY CONSERVATION THROUGH TREES ACT           
World Landscape Architecture
Date: 04/23/08

Utilizing Strategically Planted Trees to Conserve Energy is endorsed by: National Arbor Day Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, American Forests, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, International Society of Arborists, American Public Works Association, California Urban Forests Council, Urban Ecology Institute, California ReLeaf, >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<<, Trees Atlanta, Friends of Trees, Utility Arborists Association, Sacramento Tree…

Neighborhood Briefs                           
Portland Tribune
Date: 04/23/08

…[O]rganized by the Oregon Chapter of the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<<, the Portland Water Bureau and Portland Parks & Recreation, will be remarks from its designer, noted Pacfiic Northwest landscape architect Robert Perron. Because April is National Landscape Architecture Month, the Oregon chapter has co-sponsored events at Portland fountains for the past two years. Chapter spokesman Tim Gish said fountains were chosen because they are iconic and popular gathering sites. The Salmon Street Springs Fountain is in Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park at Southwest Salmon Street and Naito Parkway.

Sculptures Covered Up to Smooth Sharp Edges                                 
Asbury Park Press
Date: 04/22/08

…with national and regional awards from the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<<, American Institute of Architects, International Federation of Landscape Architects, and Boston and Connecticut societies of architects. When the work is done, McConnell said, the sculptures will be unveiled again.

Stormwater | Rain Gardens Reign                              
Stormwater
Date: 04/21/08

In 2007, the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< gave a national award to the project's rain garden, which replaced 4,000 square feet of asphalt. "Rain gardens are a decentralizing strategy," says Tom Evans, a landscape architect with URS Corp. in Cleveland, OH. That decentralization means that rain gardens, even those installed through community projects, become the homeowner's responsibility to maintain. Requiring homeowners to attend workshops to learn about their rain gardens and other LID features, such as the programs profiled do, connects the homeowners to the programs long-term….

Up High and Down to Earth: A Beauty of A Green Roof Comes with Benefits
Boston Globe
Date: 04/21/08

The client - the owner of the roof - is the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< (ASLA), led by its CEO, Nancy Somerville. The building is the ASLA headquarters, at 636 Eye St. NW, not far from the Capitol. Americans are laggards in green roofs. The leading country is probably Germany, where there are 50 square miles of green roof. That's bigger than the entire city of Boston. And that figure is probably already out of date. Every year, the Germans add rooftop gardens totaling four times the area of New York's Central Park. The ASLA roof is intended to change that. It is, above all, an educational project.

Architects Praise Plan to Develop Riverfront                          
New Orleans Times Picayune
Date: 04/19/08