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Stormwater Management Takes The Field
Many parks, recreation, and athletic facilities serve as community hubs where residents gather to compete, play, socialize, and enjoy the outdoors. These prized community assets can play an even bigger role by incorporating infrastructure to manage stormwater, mitigate flooding, and achieve water-quality goals.
Protecting Parks From Climate Change
Climate change is transforming America’s parks. Warming temperatures increasingly affect plantings, wildlife, and even pest populations, requiring new maintenance regimes and management techniques.
A Symbiotic Relationship
To make cities more resilient, park planners and designers need to look beyond the typical stormwater requirements when thinking about public spaces. How can parks solve larger, community-wide stormwater problems while still accommodating recreational needs?
How To Raise A Meadow
With shrinking maintenance budgets on the horizon, municipalities and other public agencies have been researching options to reduce costs. One frequently considered initiative is the addition of turf to reduce the amount of mowing by maintenance crews.
An Outpouring Of Opportunities
When the Stark County Park District in Canton, Ohio, in creating a Countywide Trail and Greenway Plan to expand its park system, built a 300-mile network of recreat
Stormwater Infiltration
Landscape architects are a special breed. All of us began our pre-career existence intrigued by our natural surroundings. As an infant, my first word was ТLook.У Most of us began the elementary-school
Planning For A Rainy Day
The University of Kansas in Lawrence is well-known for its basketball history, but did you also know the university has a commitment to effective planning principles and sustainable practices? As KU