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Climate Mitigation and Social Well-Being in Urban Design

By Neha Chinwalla + Clelie Fielding As shapers of the built environment, landscape architects and urban designers are primarily concerned with people and places. Today, we are facing a global climate crisis that threatens the health and well-being of people and places. Simultaneously, social connections are unraveling with the rise of technology that tends to...

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Active Transportation Climate Responsible Handbook Community Design Education Habitat Landscape + Community Planning Metabolism

Materials Matter: Designing the Climate Responsible City

By Constantine Chrisafis + Brianna Weekes Building on the foundation laid by Designing  the  Climate  Responsible  City, this companion guide turns its attention to the embodied carbon locked into the materials and processes that shape streetscapes, landscapes, and other urban sites. The publication distills a clear set of principles for climate‑mitigative site design, outlines ideal...

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Active Transportation Climate Responsible Handbook Community Design Education Habitat Landscape + Community Planning Metabolism

Green Futures Lab Students Win Climate Solutions Prize

Did you know that UW Green Futures Lab Scan Design Interns won one of the two Climate Solutions prizes, as part of CBE’s Climate Solutions symposium this past spring?! There were over 40 entries and Constantine Chrisafis’ (MLA/MUP ’25) posters describing our Designing the Climate Responsible City project and publication won the prize in the Communications category....

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