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In this article for the American Planning Association, Patty Folan encourages people to consider the local market and see whether zoning reform, phased development, or pop-ups can make implementing transit-oriented development a reality. Folan is a visiting associate professor of landscape architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Find out more about her seven ways to rethink transit-oriented development (TOD) in slow-growth areas: https://lnkd.in/gU5KtqXu

Antje Steinmuller, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, University of Michigan’s new chair of architecture is rethinking housing through identity and density. Prior to arriving in Ann Arbor, Steinmuller served as chair of undergraduate architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, among other leadership posts, where her decades of work as an educator, designer, author, and researcher had noticeable impacts on California housing policy. Her current research focuses on innovative housing typologies and the role design can play in mitigating the U.S. housing crisis. Shortly after the beginning of fall term, METROPOLIS connected with Steinmuller to learn more about her current and future work in this regard, and how she was settling into her new role. https://lnkd.in/eE45GSYq

Olmsted Scholar Jorge Mayorga recently graduated with his MLA from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He aims to work with diverse disciplines to design landscape urban projects that enhance the resiliency of marginalized communities and cities throughout the world. As a co-founder and project leader of Human Scale, a design-build 501c3 not-for-profit organization, Jorge has committed his energies as a young landscape architect to designing and building functional and meaningful public spaces in Chicago neighborhoods such as Englewood, Austin, Pilsen, Little Village, and other historically disinvested communities. The completed outdoor community projects have helped improve the mental and physical wellness of veterans and neighbors, promote civic responsibility, highlight heritage and culture, and foster strong inter-generational relationships among the people Human Scale has worked with. Named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. Now in its 17th year, the program honors students who advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits through ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership. #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitecturestudents

What are your hopes for the future of landscape architecture? Olmsted Scholar Kaylah Lue is an undergraduate landscape architecture student at Rutgers University. She plans to get her MLA through Rutgers' 4+1 BSLA/MLA program. Her mission is to create for and with others, fostering public spaces that comprehensively reflect the nuances that inform the site as well as the hopes of the community. Named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. Now in its 17th year, the program honors students who advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits through ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership. #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitecturestudents

Join us on Monday, November 4 for Architecture and Activism: Axel Timm. The practice of our collective raumlaborberlin refers very much to Lefebvre´s quote “Space is a product of (social) interaction." Thus our approach to the city and towards architecture is not the built space or the building of space in particular but rather the conception, the perception – the inhabiting of it. Within our approach with a focus on public or semi public space - we work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. In our work we address the city and urban renewal as a process connected to preferably all users of those spaces. For more event information: https://myumi.ch/egqGn

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Recently, we were lucky to host a Friday evening power talk with Braden Hill, titled Colonialism to Country: Truth Telling through Architecture. Professor Braden Hill, a Noongar Wardandi man from the southwest of Western Australia, currently serves as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students, Equity and Indigenous) at Edith Cowan University (ECU). In recent years, he has played a key role in shaping the new ECU City Campus by integrating Noongar and broader Indigenous narratives into the architecture and life of the campus. Drawing from his project insights and personal experiences, Braden's talk covered a tonne of important ground. He emphasised the importance of always remembering that we are on Country, wherever we are in Australia, and highlighted the need to involve Indigenous leaders in projects from the earliest stages. Beyond that, Braden stressed the responsibility of everyone involved – including clients, architects, and landscape architects – to conduct thorough research into the histories of a site and the people connected to it. At the heart of his message was a call for all of us to be open to learning and to get more comfortable with the discomfort that can come with having essential (and in most cases, probably overdue) conversations. Richard Kendall, one of the talk’s attendees, nicely summed up his key takeaways: - Don't ask for guidance from Indigenous colleagues without having done your prior research. Put some bloody effort in. There is no magic website. - Surfacing stories about individuals otherwise lost to history is important. - If you're sharing a decision-making table, don't allow others to leave the table for a smaller more exclusive table where the 'real decisions' are made. A huge thank you to Braden for all that you shared. And thanks to everyone who joined.

Ever wondered about using hemp, straw, reed, seaweed, corn, flax and many other plants as a way to desigb Housing as Carbon Storage? Come for the discussion and for an exhibition of my students research in “Homegrown” that will open alongside this conference. #housingascarbonstorage #biobasedmaterials #decarbonization

The Columbia University M.S. in Construction Administration program is thrilled to welcome Laura P., Inaugural The City University of New York Fellow at Columbia University School of Professional Studies! #columbiasps #columbiauniversity #cuny #fellow #construction #constructionadministration #constructionmanagement #projectmanagement #constructionindustry #infrastructure #architecture #engineering #highereducation #continuingeducation #mastersdegree

AI can be a useful tool and it can also bring new technology to old issues of bias and discrimination. Let's learn together how to get the most and best out of AI when it's used for screening and security in multifamily.