HAPPY 2010!

It's already 2010 here in St. Louis, MO. If any of the public health types on this network are thinking of work-related resolutions, I have a suggestion. I noticed several posts where folks are interested in getting a bit more grounded in the basics of planning/land use principles. The website below offers a nice straight forward set of on-line pieces for newbies out there. (Good idea to sound as if you have some understanding about what you are talking about.… Continue

Much of the discussion taking place in landscape architecture these days revolves around climate change design issues. There is very little direct discussion of how the profession can have an impact on diseases caused by sedentary living. Paul Morris-former president ofthe American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), speaks directly to the issue of healthy community design & landscape architecture.



This article is from Dirt, the ASLA blog.…

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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) highlighted Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) on their website this month. ASLA is a member of the SRTS Coaltion and is on record supporting a bill sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) to expand SRTS to high schools and more rural communities.
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