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Projects
A Massive Public Works Project in Toronto Creates a Park and Revives Ecologies
Designed Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, The opening of Biidaasige Park marks an early milestone in long-term efforts to “renaturalize” and develop a part of the city’s waterfront.
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Regenerative Design as a Response to the Water Crisis in Mexico
Guided by ancestral knowledge and shaped through collective design, Reserva Peñitas uses a regenerative development model in Valle de Bravo offering a blueprint for ecological healing, resilience, and community governan
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Profiles
Democracy Needs Room to Breathe
From reimagining Pennsylvania Avenue to reactivating Franklin Park, David Rubin and his Land Collective Studio are helping Washington, D.C. reclaim its public spaces as open, flexible, and deeply democratic.
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Viewpoints
Public Outdoor Spaces: Behind the Design of Powerful Parks
METROPOLIS gathers its top articles that explore how public outdoor spaces can make a significant impact on urban livability, community, and environmental health.
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Profiles
Future Green Puts Plants at the Heart of Its Practice
The Brooklyn-based landscape architecture and design-build studio blends fabrication and urban placemaking to reframe public space.
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Profiles
Four Students Posit a Link between Architecture and Biodiversity
Members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 explore ways architecture can support plant and animal habitats across typologies, from housing to research stations.
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Profiles
Wittman Estes Creates Places where Architecture and Landscape Intertwine
The Seattle-based firm’s nature-based approach is rooted in a belief that the best designs give more to their surroundings more than they take.
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Profiles
Edward Lyons Pryce, the Black Landscape Architect that Preserved the Tuskegee Institute
A new scholarship will continue Pryce’s legacy as one of the first Black landscape architects.
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Viewpoints
Why Landscapes Designed to Flood Are Environmentally Sound
The author of a new book explains why a landscape may be more resilient when it is designed for and defined by its floods.