Month: August 2014


Open Voices News Roundup: August 28

Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture and urban planning, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Mother Nature’s Daughters “If you wanted to find someone picking a fat tomato this week in the City of New York, you could go…

Open Voices News Roundup: August 21

Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture and urban planning, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Hot and Getting Hotter: Heat Islands Cooking U.S. Cities “Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that…

Open Voices News Roundup: August 14

Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture and urban planning, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back each week for new roundups and items. Community Resilience at the Edge “Is resilience ecological, economic, cultural, or social? For Red Hook and Hunts Point, two communities in New York City, the…

"A quiet place. My soul grows still. This, indeed, is a balm for the weary, a shelter for the beaten. I am so grateful for this sacred space. I am now renewed."

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