Cities and Water
After the Storm: Climate Change and Public Works
Places Journal
The accelerating crisis of climate change suggests a newly intensified political agenda for design activism.
Emergent Shorelands of the Great Lakes
Places Journal
Dramatic fluctuations at the water’s edge create zones of opportunity for landscape designers and planners.
Water/Front
Places Journal
Landscape designers are pioneering new ways to regenerate urban waterfronts. Projects by Field Operations, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, and Stoss: Landscape Urbanism.
Growing Water
Places Journal
A bold proposal by a team of Chicago urban designers for how cities can ensure the availability of an increasingly scarce resource.
Infrastructural Optimism
Places Journal
Learning from New Orleans, or why we really need a new New Deal.
On the Water
Places Journal
As the planet warms, rising seas will endanger coastal communities. In 2008, an interdisciplinary team proposed a set of adaptive strategies to protect New York.