The Urban Heat Island Effect and How to Fix it It isn’t your imagination, cities are on average hotter than rural areas. The reason for this is the Urban Heat Island effect. Traditionally designed cities create and retain heat energy at alarming rates. While you may not consider a slightly increased temperature a huge negative, … Read more
Whether you are designing a new park or a massive new office project, consider LEED certification in the planning stages of your next project.
How to Stop Wash Outs and Expensive Maintenance It is rare for a landscape architect to be given a perfectly flat canvas to work with and very few would want one anyway – slopes and hills add character and natural lines. Although a well landscaped hillside can be the highlight of your project, it also … Read more
Urban Planning for Healthy Cities Cities are often viewed as unhealthy and unwelcoming places. Many of the most famous works of English language literature are based in hellish Victorian city scapes and modern Science Fiction frequently references dystopian future cities. Despite this negative image, cities continue to grow exponentially, with 68% of the global … Read more
Sponge Cities: Revolutionizing Surface Water Management in Urban Environments The world is a rapidly urbanising place. Since 1950, the number of people living in cities has ballooned from 751 million to 4.2 billion and Asia is the epicentre of this growth with 54 percent of all city dwellers [1]. Urban environments present many environmental challenges … Read more
Explaining Sustainable Landscaping The buzz word of the moment is sustainability, but what does this really mean and how does it relate to the business of landscaping? On a basic level, sustainability can be defined as the ability to exist constantly. What this becomes on a practical level is the management of resource exploitation, business … Read more
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