Posted on May 26, 2010 by elissahoagland
ASLA’s The Dirt recently covered the 2010 Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Study Symposium. This year’s focus was “Designing Wildlife Habitats,” which looked at ways to preserve biodiversity in rural and urban environments. America’s cities are an appropriate laboratory for such a movement, given that many city-dwellers’ encounters with wildlife are limited to rats, raccoons [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2009 by Ben Welle
At Slate.com, Gretchen Rubin, writing for her Happiness Project blog, interviews Julie Morgenstern, who Rubin says “has done a lot of thinking about happiness, as it relates to managing our possessions and time.” Morgenstern’s response to one question provides a nice perspective on the value of city parks in keeping us uncluttered in the mind. [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Ben Welle
The NY Times has an article this week on how “involuntary attention” such as being in a park or children going out for recess during school hours can foster better learning, health and development. Turns out, not so shockingly, that we need to recharge every once in a while. Sitting in front of a computer, [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Ben Welle
Jonah Lehrer writes the other day in the Boston Globe on how cities, as fun, energetic and vibrant as they are, for these very reasons can cause our brains to strain. He notes recent research showing this, but also evidence from studies showing how places like parks and trees can help alleviate the problem. He [...]
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