Last week, the Trump Administration released a final rule that would gut the most important provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This is the latest move in a series of attempts to destroy America’s bedrock environmental protections, including using the pandemic as cover and an excuse to suspend portions of NEPA last month. [...]
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) strongly oppose the United States Department of Homeland Security’s modification of temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online courses during the fall 2020 semester. The modification forbids nonimmigrant students now taking full course loads online to remain in the [...]
On Monday, July 6, 2020, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that International Students in the United States whose schools have ruled for online-only classes in the Fall 2020 semester must leave the United States, or may face immigration consequences. This is counter productive for the following reasons: International students contribute ~$41 billion dollars [...]
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has embarked on a once-in-a-generation opportunity to holistically re-imagine the campus’ open space resources, collectively referred to as Naturescape. The UCI Naturescape Vision was completed in 2018 to optimize the interconnected open spaces on the 1,500-acre campus to serve and enhance research, teaching, community engagement, wellness, and sustainability, and to reflect and [...]
Tim Zhang led us through the SketchUp and Lumion process beginning with a black and white site plan and moving step-by-step to an illustrative rendering and 3D model. This webinar explained the basics of SketchUp and Lumion and shared shortcuts designed to help you produce professional level presentation renderings and 3D models. About [...]
On June 5th ASLA, with help of The Black Landscape Architects Network (BlackLAN), released a statement joining with millions around the world mourning the racialized murder of George Floyd. They pledged to deepen their partnership with BlackLAN and to build a sustainable plan of action to help guide the profession and address the wants and [...]
On June 17, the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act with a 73-25 vote. This legislation, endorsed by ASLA, would fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) ending the yearly legislative battles to provide programmatic funding. The measure also includes provisions to help the National Park Service and other [...]
On behalf of Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for Mayor Garcetti, I am reaching out to solicit your firm’s involvement to help support the expansion of the Al Fresco Outdoor Dining Initiative in response to our ongoing pandemic crisis. Is your firm willing to help provide pro-bono services to help LA-area restaurants expand their dining capacity into [...]
The Black Landscape Architects Network (BlackLAN) was established in 2012 as an online communications network. The network was established by Glenn LaRue Smith, ASLA as Manager and Kofi Boone, ASLA as Co-Manager. BlackLAN is an organization for landscape architects of African heritage in the United States and internationally. The goal of the network is to [...]
The Southern California Chapter joins with ASLA National and millions of people around the world in mourning the death of George Floyd, a black man who was murdered by a police officer. ASLA recognizes that the brutal systems of slavery and Jim Crowism have dehumanized black people and weakened their communities. We also acknowledge that [...]
