Landscape Architecture

Children swinging on the pond’s banyan tree. Image courtesy of the author.

FeatureMarch 4, 2020

The Gift of Water

India today faces a wide variety of issues related to water management. These include flooding during the several-month monsoon season, a lack of water during the dry season, depletion of groundwater stores, and unreliable water pipelines bringing water into cities…

Along the Flamingo Arroyo Wash and Bike Trail where the wetland is fed primarily by urban runoff. Image courtesy of the author.

GeographiesMarch 4, 2020

Invisible Infrastructure: Documenting the Hidden Flood Control Infrastructure in Las Vegas

By Jessica Rossi-Mastracci Las Vegas. A city branded by sin, vice, and extravagance. A city where “anything goes,” including gambling, the Strip, partying, strip…

Education Landscape Architecture United States

A solar panel on the roof of a Parisian building. Notre Dame is in the background.

The PulseJune 28, 2016

Towards the Water-Sensitive City

By Gary Grant

With changing climate, demographic patterns, and increasing urban concentration, cities will have to become more “water sensitive” than ever before. This short essay offers some tips.

The Nature of Cities

Civil Engineering International Landscape Architecture Planning / Policy Policy

Gardner Marsh at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum is pictured in an aerial view during an autumn sunset on Oct. 5, 2011. On the horizon is the UW-Madison campus and downtown Madison skyline. The photograph was made from a helicopter looking northeast. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)

The PulseDecember 9, 2015

Small landscape changes can mean big freshwater gains

By Jenny Seifert

University of Wisconsin study finds that small adjustments in agricultural and “working” landscapes can have large benefits in improving water quality.

University of Wisconsin-Madison News

Biological Sciences Landscape Architecture Mississippi River Basin

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 27 | Prospect

Reading these articles, I returned to the idea that these authors are offering us the prospect of seeing the conditions of our environment a...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

Rivers as Creative Ecologies

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson. We explore how activists, artists, scholars, and rivers might co-create riverine engagements that interrupt the extractive capitalist, heteropatriarchal,...

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson

Feature (Peer Review)

Big Stone Lake Stories: Crossing Borders

By Jonee Kulman Brigham. Earth Systems Journey is foremost a form of participatory public art and secondly an environmental education curriculum model. Big Stone...

By Jonee Kulman Brigham

Feature

Fluid Impressions: Connecting Data and Storytelling in Iowa’s Watersheds

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge. As we contend with the environmental degradation...

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge

Geographies

Narmada Parikrama

By Vivek Ji. The waters of the Narmada River flow as though carrying a divine grace, ancient wisdom, and a sense of spirituality. This...

By Vivek Ji

In Review

All We Can Save

By Marceleen Mosher. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine...

By Marceleen Mosher

Perspectives

From Symbol of Wisdom to Inducer of Anxiety: The Ganga Dichotomy

By Saloni Shokeen. The River Ganga, arising from the Western Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh, covers an immense distance of 2,525 kilometers...

By Saloni Shokeen

Primary Sources

Owámniyomni: Still We Gather

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager. Mni Wičoni. Water is life. For many of us, water truly is synonymous with life—and not...

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager

Teaching and Practice

Do You Know Where You Are?

By Laura Rockhold. Over recent years I have been on a journey, one that has deepened my understanding of, and engagement with, the Indigenous...

By Laura Rockhold

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