OCEANSIDE — A local group of professional landscape architects is helping design the Veterans Honor Garden at the Veterans Resource Center run by the nonprofit Veterans Association of North County in Oceanside. The American Society [...]
Park-starved Mission Valley can look forward to a new public playland by early 2017 now that construction has begun at the 14.3-acre Civita Park. The $2 billion master-planned community, begun by Sudberry Properties in 2010, [...]
Every Californian knows about the San Andreas Fault, but closer to home and not so well known is the Rose Canyon Fault, which makes a journey through La Jolla, Coronado, and Downtown San Diego, where, [...]
Tim Smith, President of ASLASD and Glen Schmidt, Founding Principal of Schmidt Design Group, Inc., discuss the role and work of landscape architects; saving water during the drought: what to do and what not to [...]
San Diego’s Lane Field Park, created by Denver’s urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas, is on the former site of Lane Field baseball stadium, home to the then-Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres from [...]
With more development in urban than suburban areas in 100 years, there is a clear need for more parks, gardens and plants, which could explain the popular new trend of living walls, also referred to [...]
Past ASLASD President, Patricia Trauth, was appointed Friday, June 5, 2015 by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Landscape Architects Technical Committee. The committee establishes standards for licensing and enforces laws and regulations that govern [...]
ASLASD President Tim Smith and member Michelle Landis are quoted in an article featured in the Union Tribune discussing if the drought is killing the lawn. Read the beginning of the article below and click [...]
Nobody can say exactly how many, but trees in Balboa Park are dying, according to park advocates and city officials. Years without hard rain have weakened the trees, many of which do not belong in [...]
At the end of the 1800s the city of San Diego was not like any other major U.S. city. Enormous in acreage, the streets were still unpaved. With miles of oceanfront, there were no beaches [...]