Landscape Architecture Rising

Profession's renewal rides on natural and engineered systems to clean and beautify the environment

07/01/2009

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Need to stop flooding or reduce stormwater runoff and sewer overflows? Looking to ease demand on treatment plants and avoid the cost of expansion? Seeking cleaner air or water? Interested in recharging an aquifer, rebuilding a shoreline or remediating a brownfield? Trying to stem highway pollution? Need to rebalance a watershed or ecosystem?

If so, a landscape architect may be in your future. The design professional-until recently derided as little more than a glorified gardener-is on a campaign to reclaim a seat at the environmental cleanup table. Some are even bent on sitting at the head, leading the engineers.

Read the complete article at: http://enr.construction.com/buildings/sustainability/2009/0701-LandscapeArchitecture-1.asp