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Designing at the Edge: Materials and Planting for Coastal Landscapes
2025-12-15 11:26 Introduction – Reading the Coastal Brief Stand on a coastal site for ten minutes and you get a full project briefing without a word being spoken. Salt rides in on the wind. Sand moves constantly. Soi...
From Concrete to Sponge: How Landscape Architects Are Rewriting Urban Water Infrastructure
2025-12-05 11:29 Introduction: When Streets Turn into Rivers Across many cities, the same picture keeps repeating: a cloudburst, gutters overwhelmed, streets turned into rivers, basements and subways flooding within ...
The Blue Economy: The Future of the Blue Economy - PART 10
2025-11-18 21:12 The blue economy is shifting from aspiration to frontier practice. New technologies (algae-based fuels and biomaterials, autonomous vessels and sensor networks), novel finance models, and growing soci...
The Blue Economy: Case Studies - PART 9
2025-11-07 21:06 Practical success in the blue economy comes when finance, technology, ecology, governance — and crucially design and place-making — converge. The four case studies below illustrate distinct levers: la...
The Blue Economy: Global Policy and Governance in the Blue Economy - PART 8
2025-10-29 13:10 Introduction: Why Global Governance Matters in the Blue Economy The Blue Economy—defined as the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and ocean ecosystem healt...
The Blue Economy: Designing the Circular Blue - PART 7 : Circular Economy
2025-10-19 14:39 Introduction: Rethinking Waste in the Ocean Age The blue economy—defined as the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and ocean ecosystem health—is gaining glo...

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