The Greening of the Dominguez Channel Begins!
SWA, in conjunction with From Lot to Spot and the Environmental Charter High School, is working on a project on the Dominguez Creek Waterway in Los Angeles. The students created conceptual designs of...
View ArticleDominguez Creek Waterway: Improving Habitat and Public Open Space
SWA is currently working with the Environmental Charter High School in Hawthorn on a project on the Dominguez Creek Waterway. This project is part of a larger Initiative that was created in 2010 in...
View ArticleLandscape Infrastructure: Systems of Contingency, Flexibility, and Adaptability
This year’s annual CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) conference was held in Los Angeles. CELA’s conferences focus on recent research and scholarship in all aspects of landscape...
View ArticleFuture of Freeways: Wildlife Crossings
With an estimated 1.5 million deer killed annually on US roads , and potentially a greater biomass of smaller animals killed, wildlife crossings reconnect remaining land patches to facilitate healthy...
View ArticleFreeway Potential: Heat Island Mitigation
Urban heat island effect is measured as the temperature difference between the air within the urban canopy layer and that measured in rural areas. Built urban environments can suppress air movements,...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Watershed
The anatomy of the Los Angeles County watershed which includes the Los Angeles River, San Gabriel River, Ballona Creek, and the Dominquez Channel cover 1780 square miles in size and consists of 1240...
View ArticleQ&A with the Army Corps of Engineers: Los Angeles’ Channelized Waterways
In preparation for my recent presentation at Harvard GSD’s panel on Landscape Infrastructure, I sat down with Steve Dwyer of the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss Los Angeles’ concrete rivers. The...
View Article1938 Flood and the Channelization of Los Angeles’ Rivers
The city of Los Angeles acts as a natural flood basin where the surface flows that come from the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountain ranges travel across the city to reach the Pacific Ocean. This...
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