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Ecology
09.22.11: Laura Tepper
Road Ecology: Wildlife Habitat and Highway DesignOn Places, Laura Tepper looks at the emerging field of road ecology and its influence on a new generation of highway landscape design.
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08.22.11: Barry Lopez
Dixon MarshOn Places, a short story by Barry Lopez set in the Petersen Mountains on the Nevada-California border.
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06.09.11: Adelheid Fischer
A Home Before the End of the WorldOn Places, Adelheid Fischer explores our startling ignorance of the natural world — and wonders whether this is enabling the degradation of the environment.
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04.20.11: Radek Skrivanek
The Dying SeaOn Places, a portfolio of photographs by Radek Skrivanek, documenting the death of the Aral Sea.
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04.18.11: Timothy Beatley
Blue Urbanism: The City and the OceanOn Places, planning professor Tim Beatley makes a case for blue urbanism — a new planning focus on how the design of cities affects the health of the planet's oceans.
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10.04.10: William W. Braham
The Temptations of Survivalism, or, What do you do with your waste?On Places, architect William Braham explores the promise — and the illusions — of sustainable self-sufficiency in environmental design.
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09.09.10: Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney
In the Mississippi Delta: Building with WaterOn Places, Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney report on the work of the Coastal Sustainability Studio at Louisiana State University, which is proposing long-range solutions to the environmental and social challenges of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
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04.08.10: Mimi Zeiger
Two Feet High and Rising: On Optimism, Speculation and OystersOn Places, Mimi Zeiger reviews MoMA's ambitious new architecture and urban design show, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, which explores how New York Harbor might be adapted in the face of rising sea levels.
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10.17.09: Charlie Cannon
Partly SunnyPartly Sunny — an exhibition curated and produced at the Rhode Island School of Design — showcases three dozen projects and programs that are successfully confronting the challenges of climate change.
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09.26.09: William W. Braham
How Much Does Your Household Weigh?How much does your household weigh? Architect William Braham explores the unfolding complexities of sustainable design.
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09.12.09: Chris Reed
The Infrastructural CityLos Angeles depends upon vast infrastructural systems that are breathtakingly powerful, yet vulnerable to disruption, even disaster. Landscape architect Chris Reed reviews The Infrastructural City.
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09.04.09: Andrew Blum
Metaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the CityCities are the new frontiers green living, and Andrew Blum argues that we need to revise the old metaphors: will Half Dome give way to the high-rise as the new emblem of environmentalism?
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08.05.09: Nina-Marie Lister
Water/FrontEcological planner Nina-Marie Lister explores innovative ways to regenerate urban waterfronts.
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10.15.08: Alex Steffen, Raymond Cole, Kevin Burke, Emanuel Carter, Stephen Luoni, Brian Stone, Frances Halsband, Kristina Hill, Diane Dale, Fritz Steiner, K. Golden, Megan Susman, John Thomas, Steve McDowell, Stephen Antupit
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