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ASLA is thrilled to introduce its exciting refresh of YOUR LAND, the popular magazine that introduces 

landscape architecture to middle and high school students.

Thanks to the generous support of Landscape Structures, ASLA members and educators can engage youth audiences in the one profession that shapes their outdoor environments, strengthens communities, and promotes healthy climates and lifestyles. 

As a post-pandemic response, PopCourts! is a public plaza that transformed a historically disinvested commercial corridor and changed how the City of Chicago thinks about vacant space.  

Designed, funded and built in less than a year, the project became a case study and inspiration for the “Public Outdoor Plaza” program. The “POP” program has pledged to fund ten more community plazas along neighborhood retail corridors in historically underinvested and primarily black and brown communities.

The success of PopCourts! and its brand inspired the city to dedicate 10 million dollars to a city-wide Public Outdoor Plaza (POP) program to support community-based organizations in their efforts to spur economic development and activate underutilized commercial corridors.