Moving what Bibeau describes as an unguarded track in the grass brought current safety standards to bear, including “big ditches on each side of the track, big fence, big everything,” she says, and ...

Erin Despard is a disabled writer and researcher whose work focuses on gardens, landscape, and visual media.

Montreal’s Jardins des Floralies, on Île Notre-Dame in the Parc Jean-Drapeau, have changed a great deal since they were installed as part of a horticultural exhibition in 1980. Of the gardens that can ...

What landscape architects need to know. New place-naming and wayfinding approaches give designers the opportunity to ...

Revamping the landscape history curriculum to uproot racist histories. By Timothy A. Schuler Participants toured sites such as Piscataway Park and the National Colonial Farm. Photo by Andrea Roberts.

The “Little Project” at the Minnesota home of Ping Design's founder creates experiences that exceed a small footprint.

You want to build in some relationship between the way the place feels and the materials and colors that are used on the signs,” he says. The relationship between landscape design and signage has ...

At the Etéreo beach resort on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the typical vacation experience is transformed into a floating holiday amid a carpet of pygmy mangroves. Pathways to the resort’s pools, ...

On August 29, 2005, the tropical cyclone battered coastal areas throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, claiming more than 1,300 lives and causing an estimated $125 billion in damage, ...

Reed Hilderbrand helped Longwood Gardens re-create Roberto Burle Marx's Cascade Garden, his only extant work in North America.

Anjulie Rao is a journalist and critic covering the built environment. Based in Chicago, much of her work reckons with the complexities of post-industrial cities; explores connections to place and ...

“A compact tape measure is ideal for field visits to well-designed sites, such as Little Island in New York City. It’s extremely handy for measuring construction details like the thickness of a ...