Tag: News Roundups
Open Voices News Roundup: April 22
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Can America’s Greenest City Also Be a Shale Oil Powerhouse? The evidence of Philadelphia’s not-too-distant past as an industrial powerhouse is apparent to anyone who drives by…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 15
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. The Completely Puzzling Relationship Between City Population and Parks The larger a city gets, the less infrastructure it needs per capita. At the same time, as populations…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 8
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. National Landscape Architecture Month: Healthy Living Through Design 2013 With the theme of Healthy Living Through Design, National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM) 2013 will spur a country-wide…
Open Voices News Roundup: April 1
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. A Chicago Park Learns from New York’s High Line There’s no denying that the High Line, New York City’s famed elevated park, has captured the imagination of…
Open Voices News Roundup: March 18
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. A City Center Becomes a Garden Aberdeen, a city in Scotland, is not only transforming its urban center into a garden and cultural center, but also making…
Open Voices News Roundup: March 11
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Tree and Human Health May Be Linked Our deep connection with nature has roots seemingly as old as humanity itself. Ancient Celts viewed trees as sacred symbols…
Open Voices News Roundup: March 4
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. The Benefits of Exercising Outdoors While the allure of the gym — climate-controlled, convenient and predictable — is obvious, especially in winter, emerging science suggests there are…
Open Voices News Roundup: February 25
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. For Winter’s Gloom, a Healing Dose of Light in a Garden On an unusually warm and bright Sunday in January, almost 100 people showed up to watch…
Open Voices News Roundup: February 18
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. What We Want and What We Don’t: Forging an Urban Nature that Works for Everyone Living with so much nature right in the heart of your city…
Open Voices News Roundup: February 11
Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Summoning Nature for Healing The Crown Sky Garden, on the 11th floor of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is a 5,000-square-foot area…
