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Jun 28, 2024
MLA students’ award-winning wildfire-resilient landscape design is a call to action for homeowners
Grace Diebel and Shayda Rashidi won the top prize in a contest aimed at generating innovative and cost-effective landscaping ideas that enhance wildfire defense while maintaining aesthetic appeal.
Jun 28, 2024
LAF scholarship winner Kanani D’Angelo is reviving traditional Hawaiian practices to restore Oahu landscapes and watersheds
Kanani D’Angelo, who is pursuing concurrent MCP and MLA degrees, is the 2024 winner of the Hawaii Chapter ASLA/David T. Woolsey Scholarship from the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She is focusing on reviving Native Hawaiian cultural practices to restore degraded landscapes, such as freshwater fishponds, and reconnect people to the land.
Jun 10, 2024
With bond measure slated for November ballot, new study finds inequities in California school facility funding
The Center for Cities + Schools, an affiliate center of the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, has just published a comprehensive exploration of the challenges plaguing TK–12 school facility funding in California. The report authored by Sara Hinkley, entitled “Moving to Equity: California School Facility Program Reform,” provides crucial context for the $14 billion school infrastructure bond measure that will appear on the November ballot.
Jun 10, 2024
Deborah McKoy advocates for inclusive strategy to solve California’s crisis of homeless children, youth
In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, Deborah McKoy, director of CED’s Center for Cities + Schools, argues for engaging homeless youth in the process of building sustainable support systems.
May 30, 2024
Five alums elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows
We’re proud to announce that Patricia Algara (MLA 2007), Michael D. Murphy (MLA 1968), Patsy Eubanks Owens (MLA 1987), Dale Schafer (MLA 1991), and Judith Stilgenbauer (MLA 1998) have been elected to the 2024 class of fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects.