Native Plants Improve Environment, Reduce Maintenance Costs
Native plants play such a critical role in our ecosystems. They have coevolved with the soils, rainfall patterns, and climatic conditions of a region. Native plants also have specialized relationships with the birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife of a region, providing nutrition and nesting. A common misconception is that all plants can provide the… Read More »
Tags: Biodiversity, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Design, Native Planting, Native Plants, Sustainability
Visual Communication: Enhancing the Message and Inspiring Collaboration
By Craig Stoffel, PLA It’s been said that drawing is a designer’s first language, communicating ideas in 2D that will eventually be constructed in the real world. The graphics vary in detail, complexity, and refinement, and for good reason. Similar to for-construction drawings, which have established milestone deliverables of schematic design, design development, and construction… Read More »
Tags: Conceptual Design, Design, Designer, Drawings, Graphics, Rendering, Sketch, Visual Communication
One-Way or the Other? Two-Way Traffic Conversion Requires Study
By Alexander Cowan, PE, PTOE A drive through the downtown area of many American cities includes time spent on one-way streets. Cities have used short segments of one-way traffic for hundreds of years to try to improve traffic flow and move higher volumes of traffic along downtown arterials. However, in recent years many communities have… Read More »
Tags: Downtown, One-Way, One-Way Streets, Parking, Restoration, Revitalization, Traffic, Two-Way, Two-Way Streets