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ALSO: Thursday June 16, 2 pm EDT, tune in to a conversation I’ll have with four suppliers of landscape fixtures and materials to talk about supply disruptions affecting construction schedules and budgets. To register:
learn.asla.org/asla/onlineev…
@NationalASLA @landarchmag
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"Despite these facts, the U.S. spends annually only $117 per resident on city parks, in comparison to spending $11,582 per person on health care."
Parks and green spaces are essential to the physical, mental, and environmental health of communities. Read our op-ed in @thehill outlining our recent report on why urban parks are essential to community health. thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…
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Important to share the wisdom of my dear friend @Jay_Pitter after last night's Plenary at #CNU30 on #equity. 10 Rules For Better Public Spaces.
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'Our greatest challenges are not technical or technological; they are deeper than that--they are spiritual & cultural'
opening of our new book coming May 13
🔥#SacredCivics: Building Seven Generation Cities🔥
details+preorders (will also be open access)
bit.ly/7GenCities
ALT Cover of new book coming May 13, Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities, edited by Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman & Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook. Cover image includes a photo of sunrise over mystical, ancient city of Bagan, with nature, pagodas, and hot air balloons and a graphic overlay with icons representing four dimensions: intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
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Grounding the Green New Deal: Summit on Design, Policy, and Advocacy
Approved for Continuing Education Credits
Attend the summit and earn
4.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
4.5 LU|HSW (AIA CES)
Hear panel discussions with influential leaders--
Get your tickets today!
lafoundation.org/GNDsummit
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Register Now: Inaugural Race & Space Conversations April 6.
Thought-provoking speakers including @HDHoodDesign & @KBbop address the present reckoning with spatial inequities & reimagining our built & natural environment. Free Event. Limited space. bit.ly/3i7sFBJ
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Why Ecology Is the Infrastructure of the Future. It's high time for Civilian Climate Corps (+ across nation-state borders). 'We need to remove, depave, and undo many of the mistakes that we’ve made in the built environment... ' says @KateOrff h/t @KBbop thenation.com/article/enviro…
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Further exploring our theme of the critical role of food justice to liberatory movements. We share this piece from @ConversationUS w/ @julianagyeman (@tuftsuep) and @KBbop (@NCStateDesign) speaking to the role of communal wealth in “undoing the racist legacy of chattel slavery.”
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This essay is 🔥🔥🔥!!! @vonmeding beautifully stitches together critiques of resilience and vulnerability. Definitely incorporating it into an upcoming essay I'm writing. arrow-journal.org/reframing-…
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New at Places: Brandi Summers on Black homelessness in West Oakland, "the politics of Black clearance and containment," and what it means for Black people to live the same experience again and again. placesjournal.org/article/bl… @_blusummers
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Pratt SOA Dean @HarrietHarriss & Assistant Dean @Quilian Riano interview with @DomusWeb on the future of design education, student leadership, technological hybridization, and eco-political engagement
cc @PrattInstitute
domusweb.it/en/speciali/a-su…
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The markup of the housing measures in the reconciliation bill, which have flown completely under the radar, is here: financialservices.house.gov/…
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"Not every project provides the opportunity to fully realize my values, but I believe the pursuit precipitates a productive tension that supports creativity and invention in our firm’s work." Isaac shares the values he works towards for LAF's Perspectives lafoundation.org/news/2019/0…
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We're thrilled to announce the 2021 LAF Olmsted Scholars, students with exceptional leadership potential. This includes the graduate and undergraduate National Olmsted Scholars who receive $25,000 and $15,000 respectively. Full list is up on our website! tinyurl.com/xv3p4dur
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@scholarwright @Karla_Slocum @KBbop talking with @Imit8ionOFlife of Freedom Georgia and @Patriciazoundi of Caanan Land in Côte d’Ivoire about building spaces for Black safety, freedom, and cooperative living. #BLACKCOM2021
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Our #CorpsNewEra virtual Conference starts 3/15!
Join 3/17 for a discussion on a #ClimateCorps vision & centering equity in our response to #climatechange.
We're excited to be joined by @ginamccarthy46 @KatherineEgland @urbanecologist @KBbop
Learn more bit.ly/CorpsNewEra
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Be sure to check out the free online course, Reimagining Blackness and Architecture, that was developed for the @MuseumModernArt #ReconstructionsMoMA exhibition. I focused my segment on my perennial subject of interest, the architectures of difference.
coursera.org/learn/blackness… – at Manhattan, NY
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As part of the Superstudio Initiative, partner Columbia GSAPP is hosting a free virtual symposium, "Narrative Change for the Green New Deal" at 6:30pm ET on March 8. Register in advance. arch.columbia.edu/events/217…
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In 2019, 49 firms responded to LAF's first-ever diversity, equity, and inclusion survey of landscape architecture. Read our summary to learn what stories the data told. lafoundation.org/news/2019/1…
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How can architecture help rather than harm blackness? theguardian.com/artanddesign…