- Earth Day Interview with Richard Weller: A Hopeful Vision for Global ...
https://dirt.asla.org/2022/04/18/earth-day-interview-with-richard-weller-a-bold-vision...
The World’s 36 biological hotspots. Image by Rob Levinthal. Courtesy Richard Weller. But the numbers don’t really add up. About 40 percent of the Earth’s ice-free earth is currently used for food production, 30 percent is desert, and 30 percent is forest – although “forest” is a loose term, and some of that already overlaps with protected areas.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Tactical Urbanism
https://dirt.asla.org/2015/05/19/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-tactical-urbanism
As they define it today, tactical urbanism is a “an approach to neighborhood building using short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies.”. For citizens, “it allows the immediate reclamation, redesign, or reprogramming of public space. For developers or entrepreneurs, it provides a means of collecting design intelligence ...
- In Memoriam: Forster Ndubisi, FASLA | LAND
https://www.asla.org/land/LandArticle.aspx?id=60923
By Dr. Chiedu Ndubisi and Ichie Akudinobi Ihiala. Professor Forster Ndubisi, Ph.D., MLA, FCELA, FASLA, born on November 26, 1955, passed on to eternal life on Friday, March 4, 2022. He was born as the first child of six siblings to the family of Sir Dr. Bennett E.C. & Lady May Ndubisi of Umuonwusobara-Ogboro village, Ihiala in Ihiala Local ...