Every week, we bring you the latest news in placemaking, landscape architecture, the nature-mental health link, and much more. Check back every week for new roundups and items.
New York City Urban Farms After Hurricane Sandy
“Hurricane Sandy’s wrath caused the damage and demise of a number of New York City urban gardens and farms, some less fortunate than others.”
Mud is Good: Ten Easy Ways to Connect Your Family to the Joy of Nature
“Short on Vitamin N? Here’s a brief list of nature activities to help you connect your kids, and yourself, to the health and cognitive benefits of nature time.”
For Pedestrians, Cities Have Become the Wilderness
“The cities have become Wildness. As we’ve radically retrofitted them for the car, spreading them out and out, carving half-paved chasms of emptiness between expressways and off-ramps and strip malls, a great unexplored Wildness has filled those spaces. We just don’t know about it because we never walk through it.”
