Landscape Performance News

July 25, 2018

Case Study Briefs Receive Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Announcements

To more effectively represent the Case Study Briefs as the scholarly product that they are, we recently added a digital object identifiers (DOI) to each. DOIs provide a permanent and consistent link to online, scholarly content and are used widely to identify academic, professional, and government publications, including journal articles, research papers, and reports. DOIs facilitate the citing of online content, which is particularly important for academic journals, student theses, and other research papers.

October 2, 2017

Case Study Investigation (CSI): Apply Now for 2018

The Landscape Architecture Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2018 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. Deadline Nov 30. CSI matches LAF-funded faculty-student research teams with leading practitioners to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects and produce Case Study Briefs for the Landscape Performance Series.

October 28, 2016

Case Study Investigation (CSI): Apply Now for 2017

The Landscape Architecture Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2017 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. Deadlines Nov 18 and Dec 2. CSI matches LAF-funded student-faculty research teams with leading practitioners to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects and produce Case Study Briefs for the Landscape Performance Series.

September 29, 2015

LPS Wins Top ASLA Communications Award

Announcements

The Landscape Performance Series has been recognized with the 2015 Award of Excellence in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). This is the highest honor in the ASLA Professional Awards, which recognize top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications, and research projects from across the U.S. and around the world.

September 16, 2015

Case Study Investigation (CSI): Apply Now for 2016

The Landscape Architecture Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2016 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. Deadlines Oct 16 and Dec 4. CSI matches LAF-funded student-faculty research teams with leading practitioners to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects and produce Case Study Briefs for the Landscape Performance Series.

September 3, 2015

LPS Watch List: August 2015

Watch List

Each month we bring you a roundup of landscape performance news worth sharing – the latest in research, tools, and innovative thinking related to the measurable environmental, social, and economic benefits of sustainable landscapes. Several of this month’s articles highlight that the relationship between landscape elements and benefits is often more complex and nuanced than we think.

August 5, 2015

A Digital Data Library for Wildlife Infrastructure

by Amanda Kronk, SWA Group

Wildlife infrastructure exists as a framework of migration courses and habitation patterns that are inextricably linked to critical human infrastructure. At any given time, there are countless “rivers of wildlife” migrating locally and regionally above and within the world we know. In conjunction with increasingly fragile climatic conditions, urban development is drastically disrupting this framework. Wildlife is essentially pushed to the urban periphery, as increasing habitat fragmentation results in detrimental conditions for species migration.

August 3, 2015

LPS Watch List: July 2015

Watch List

June 11, 2015

Technology for Social, Sustainable and Smart Cities

by Ed Krafcik and Isabel Munson, Soofa

Data and technology

If cities are to reflect the culture of the present day while also inspiring the future, then by and large, cities across America are lagging. All generations, not just the millennials and Gen Z, are growing more connected. Why, then, do our cities not yet reflect the same type of digital connectivity and embrace of technology and data that our culture does?

June 4, 2015

Tracking the Performance of Urban Trees in Silva Cells

by Leda Marritz, DeepRoot Green Infrastructure

Post-occupancy evaluation

Green utilities like soil, trees and water can provide a high level of ecosystem services while creating a more livable built environment. But designing spaces that satisfy the needs of both natural and built systems can be a challenge in urban areas.

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