Built in three phases, with the first opening in 2008 and the third in 2023, the park has been widely celebrated as a model of waterfront renewal. But beyond the familiar story of access returned to ...

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 ...

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

Over the years, Adam Fine has seen a lot of bad signs. They include instructional signs that bury key information and welcome signs that are unwelcoming. One was such a failure that 25 years ago it ...

Lawns and imported trees threaten biodiversity and place specificity. Ruderal’s Betania Forest landscape on the city's outskirts does the opposite.

The Oberlander Prize for Grupo de Diseño Urbano celebrates the strong focus on cultural diversity in founder Mario Schjetnan's work. In 1999, 20 years after establishing the design practice Grupo de ...

In the 1930s, a publicist working for a resort developer nicknamed Idaho’s Wood River basin “Sun Valley” and coined the tagline “Winter sports under a summer sun.” At 5,750 feet above sea level, the ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...