Erin Despard is a disabled writer and researcher whose work focuses on gardens, landscape, and visual media.

I'm an award-winning writer on design, sustainability, and well-being in the built environment. I write regularly for Architectural Record (where I'm a contributing editor and where my work formed ...

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For most kids growing up in Watts, nature is a distant fantasy. This densely populated South Los Angeles neighborhood has roughly half as much tree canopy as the citywide average, and what few parks ...

Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of fire. It was 1973. She thought the Soviets were coming. Then she wondered if there ...

Revamping the landscape history curriculum to uproot racist histories. By Timothy A. Schuler Participants toured sites such as Piscataway Park and the National Colonial Farm. Photo by Andrea Roberts.

Lone Oaks Farm had a master plan as ambitious as they come. Implementation has been rocky. By Timothy A. Schuler The cabins opened in summer 2023, but the site was cleared prior to construction. Image ...

To meet the ambitious climate targets ahead, designers, developers, and construction firms need common standards. And soon. By Timothy A. Schuler Climate Positive Design, whose Pathfinder platform is ...

It’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or, as they say here in Toronto, a balmy 27 degrees. Stephanie McCarthy leans back in a white Adirondack chair and digs her feet into the sand. On Canada’s Sugar Beach ...

On August 29, 2005, the tropical cyclone battered coastal areas throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, claiming more than 1,300 lives and causing an estimated $125 billion in damage, ...

An architecture critic jump-starts real change in Dallas’s memorial landscape. By Timothy A. Schuler The Stoss plan would connect Dealey Plaza to Martyr’s Park ...

“It’s a very complicated project, but because of the way we’ve been able to explore it and show people exactly what we mean, I think we’ve been able to take the conversation a lot farther a lot more ...