Academy Affair Benefit Dinner Announced
Join the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) for a delightful evening of art and
architecture benefiting the LAF Olmsted Scholarship Program, at the newly refurbished
Hamilton Building.
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Case Studies Go Online
LAF's Land and Community Design Case Study Series is going online
LAF is currently expanding beyond its book publication efforts to make landscape
architecture case studies more widely available. LAF will be posting case studies
that use the LAF Case Study Method for Landscape Architecture on the LAF web site,
as well as encouraging the development of even more studies.
This will accomplish one of the original goals of the series, as put forth in the
1999 LAF Case Study Method for Landscape Architecture, which was to disseminate
the case studies online, presenting "specific cases, baseline data, and images
searchable by topic, problem, location, use, goal, etc." The online database will
become more comprehensive over time, and the search function will be designed to
correlate with the complexity of the site as it develops.
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LAF Awards $83,000 in Scholarships
The 2007 LAF Leadership in Landscape Scholarship Program awarded twenty
five scholarships and fellowships worth $83,000, a 20% increase over last year.
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Re-Imagining the Land:
Planning for Brownscape Redevelopment in the Delaware River Corridor
Kristen Ford
2006 Dangermond Fellow
Kristen Ford, one of two 2006 Dangermond Fellows, has completed her research project,
Re-Imagining the Land: Planning for Brownscape Redevelopment in the Delaware
River Corridor.
Ms. Ford summarizes her research as follows: "In Philadelphia, like many other
industrial cities, a concentration of brownfields can be found along urban river
corridors, where industry was historically sited. This project explores how the
corridor system can be used as the basis for redevelopment of the Central
Delaware Waterfront, a prominent Philadelphia brownscape. Beyond offering
strategies for the redevelopment of this waterfront, this project offers a
model for how to plan for brownfields redevelopment, emphasizing the corridor
system over the short-term use of sites."
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Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices
The Land and Community Design Case Study Series has added a new title with the
publication of Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices, which
looks into how landscape architects and planners have addressed the issue of
biodiversity in their work.
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