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Joshua Brooks, an architect and planner, is the co-director of the Denver, Colo., branch of the design firm Sasaki Associates. He joined Diana Alexander at the 2022 Fall Conference to discuss how airports like Denver International become centers for development.  

This is the first of a three episodes in an EFCN podcast series about green infrastructure. Susannah Drake, founding principal of DLAND studio in Brooklyn, NY (which has recently merged with Sasaki Associates), discusses why green infrastructure, though it is commonly only associated with urban areas, is a critical part of thinking about the future of rural landscapes and small water systems.

Σας καλωσορίζω στο 14o επεισόδιο της νέας σειράς των podcasts Archisearch Talks, με θεματική Women in Architecture. Eίμαι ο Βασίλης Μπαρτζώκας ιδρυτής της πλατφόρμας ARCHISEARCH.gr και της εταιρίας επικοινωνίας DESIGN AMBASSADOR H σειρά αυτή έφτασε από την πρώτη μόλις εβδομάδα στο top 10 των Ελληνικών Podcasts στο Spotify με υψηλότερη θέση την 4η ενώ παρέμεινε στο ΤΟΠ 20 για 110 ημέρες. Μπορείτε να τα ακούσετε από διάφορες πλατφόρμες όπως: -Spotify -Apple Podcasts -Breaker -Castbox -Google Podcasts -Overcast -Pocket Casts -RadioPublic -ANCHOR.FM Tα podcast γίνονται στο πλαίσιο της ενότητας Women in Architecture, η οποία ξεκίνησε το 2020 από το Archisearch.gr και την Design Ambassador. Ο διάλογος τότε εξελισσόταν μετρημένα, καθώς η ισότητα στην πράξη θεωρούνταν δεδομένη. Ωστόσο σήμερα πολλές βεβαιότητες έχουν κλονιστεί, έτσι το θέμα για την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα της Γυναίκας, το οποίο χαρακτηρίζει όλο το 2021, από τα Ηνωμένα Έθνη είναι «Women in leadership”, με στόχο τη διαμόρφωση ενός ακόμα πιο ισότιμου μέλλοντος στην μετά covid περίοδο. Το 2021 λοιπόν είναι ένα έτος που γιορτάζουμε τις επιτυχίες που μας εμπνέουν αλλά και ανακαλύπτουμε, επισημαίνουμε και επιλύουμε τα κενά που υπάρχουν. Για να μετρήσουμε επιτυχίες και να εντοπίσουμε σημεία προβληματισμου, μαζί μας σήμερα είναι η η Φάνια Σινανιώτη. Το μελετητικό γραφείο “VOIS architects” ιδρύθηκε στην Αθήνα το 2006 από την Κατερίνα Βορδώνη και τη Φάνια Σινανιώτου και αποτελείται από μία ομάδα νέων αρχιτεκτόνων. Από τότε παρέχει υπηρεσίες μελέτης και επίβλεψης σε διαφορετικούς τομείς και κλίμακες αρχιτεκτονικών έργων. H Κατερίνα Βορδώνη γεννήθηκε το 1980 στην Αθήνα. Το 2001 ολοκλήρωσε τις σπουδές της στην αρχιτεκτονική στο UCL - Barttlet school of Architecture του Λονδίνου. Το-2004, απέκτησε το Diploma of Architecture στην Architectural Association του Λονδίνου. Στη συνέχεια, εργάστηκε στο «Ατελιέ 66, Σουζάνα + Δημήτρης Αντωνακάκης», στην Αθήνα καθώς και στο γραφείο Sasaki Associates, στην Βοστώνη, ΗΠΑ. H Φάνια Σινανιώτου γεννήθηκε το 1981 στην Αθήνα. Το 2001 ολοκλήρωσε τις σπουδές της στην αρχιτεκτονική στο UEL του Λονδίνου. Το 2004 απέκτησε το Master in Architecture στo Royal College of Art του Λονδίνου. Στη συνέχεια, εργάστηκε για ένα χρόνο ως assistant architect στο αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο ISV, στην Αθήνα και τον επόμενο χρόνο με τον ίδιο τίτλο στο γραφείο Sasaki Associates, στην Βοστώνη, ΗΠΑ. Οι δύο γνωρίστηκαν στο σχολείο, σπούδασαν την ίδια περίοδο στο Λονδίνο, δούλεψαν μαζί στη Βοστώνη και κατά την επιστροφή τους στην Αθήνα ανοιξαν το γραφείο “VOIS architects”. Από το 2009, μέλος της ομάδας είναι και η Μάρθα Γεωργίου, που αποφοίτησε από την Αρχιτεκτονική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών, προσθέτοντας την πείρα της από τη συνεργασία της με αξιόλογα αρχιτεκτονικά γραφεία. Αντλώντας έμπνευση από την καθημερινή ζωή, τις συνήθειες, τις εικόνες, τις στιγμές και τα αντικείμενα οριοθετούμε την αρχιτεκτονική πορεία κάθε έργου, το οποίο αντιμετωπίζεται ως μοναδικό.

Today we celebrate the Spaniard who brought the pineapple and coffee to Hawaii.  We'll learn about the man who gardened at Monks House so much it would cause fights with his wife. We'll honor the Japanese American Landscape Architect, who designed many of our Modern Urban Public Spaces and the man who came up with a new kind of berry in the heart of Napa Vally in the 1920s. We'll hear some thoughts about the end of Fall from various poets and writers. We Grow That Garden Library with one of the most beautiful and sophisticated books on our favorite houseplant: the orchid. I'll talk about the five microgreens you should grow for the Holidays to impress your guests, and then we'll add things up with some charming advice on starting a Walking Club from 1890.    But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Vote For the Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights | USA Today | @USATODAY It's time to vote for your favorite - The Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights @USATODAY Readers' Choice Awards. During the winter season, a different kind of color lights up botanical gardens across the United States. Instead of spring flowers, visitors find twinkling holiday lights, often accompanied by a range of other holiday activities and events. Which botanical garden puts on the best seasonal lights show? You decide by voting once per day until polls close on Monday, December 2at noon ET. The ten winning gardens will be announced on 10Best.com on Friday, December 13 The current standings are: 1. A Longwood Christmas - Longwood Gardens - Kennett Square, Penn. 2. Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden - Richmond, Va. 3. Gardens Aglow - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - Boothbay, Maine 4. Nights of a Thousand Candles - Brookgreen Gardens - Murrells Inlet, S.C. 5. Million Bulb Walk/Dominion Energy Garden of Lights - Norfolk Botanical Garden - Va. 6. Illumination: Tree Lights - Morton Arboretum - Chicago 7. Lights in Bloom - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Fla. 8. River of Lights - ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden - Albuquerque 9. Fantasy in Lights - Callaway Gardens - Pine Mountain, Ga 10. Illuminations - Botanica - Wichita, Kan.     Vancouver's Seawall Proves Strong Infrastructure Can Be Pretty, Too | CityLab @CityLab @zachmortice Zach Mortice wrote this great article in City Lab about an artistic seawall barrier. Gardeners can be inspired by taking the functional and making it so much more. Fencing, borders, raised beds, etc. don't need to be eyesores.      Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or track down links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.       Brevities   #OTD  Today is the birthday of the Spanish adventurer and botanist known as Hawaii's Original Farmer, Francisco de Paula Marín, who was born on this day in 1774. By the time Marin was in his early twenties, he had already made his way to Honolulu, Hawaii. It would be his home for the rest of his life. Marin became a friend and advisor to King Kamehameha I, who consolidated all the Hawaiian Islands during his rule. Marin served in the Kamehameha Dynasty in various capacities all through his life, but he is best remembered for his work in horticulture. In 1813, Marin grew the first pineapple in Honolulu - the Hawaiian word for pineapple translates to "foreign fruit." Two years later, Marin planted the first Hawaiian vineyard using vines of the Mission grape. And, in 1817, with the approval of King Kamehameha, Marin planted the first coffee seeds in Hawaii.       #OTD   Today is the birthday of the man who designed Monks House garden Leonard Sidney Woolf who was born on this day in 1880. Woolf was the husband of Virginia Woolf. Leonard was the primary gardener and garden designer of Monks House - although Virginia helped him. Virginia and Leonard lived at the house from the time they first purchased it in 1919 until their deaths. The garden at Monks Hosue was a retreat and a place that they could both escape from the chaos of London. Leonard loved to be in the garden gardening. He hated tea roses and floribunda roses. But, he loved fruit trees like apple and pears, and he sold the fruits to make money. Leonard's devotion to the garden was a source of consternation for Virginia. Leonard spent so most of his time and his money on the garden. Virginia famously complained, “We are watering the earth with our money!” Leonard recorded all of his Monks House garden income and expenditures in a gorgeous dark green and pink ledger book. The first line in the book is dated August 26th, 1919, and he recorded the first gardening work performed by gardener William Dedman. Virginia described Monks House as "the pride of our hearts.’" In July of 1919, she wrote that gardening or weeding produced "a queer sort of enthusiasm which made me say this is happiness." When Virginia suffered bouts of depression, the garden at Monks House was the place she went to recover and heal. Since both Virginia and Leonard kept diaries, the garden was a frequent topic. On September 29, 1919, Virginia wrote: "A week ago, Leonard's wrist & arm broke into a rash. The Dr called it eczema. Then Mrs. Dedman brushed this aside & diagnosed sunflower poisoning. [Leonard] had been uprooting them with bare hands. We have accepted her judgment."    One of Virginia's favorite places to write was in the garden at Monks House. She had a small converted shed that she called her writing lodge. Every morning on her way to the lodge, Virginia walked through the garden. The Monks House garden was THE place where she wrote some of her most famous works. One story is often shared to illustrate Leonard's devotion to gardening. In 1939, as the second world war approached, Virginia called for him to come inside to listen to "the lunatic" Hitler on the radio. But Leonard was in the middle of tending to his Iris, and he shouted back: ”I shan’t come. I am planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead.”   After Virginia's tragic suicide, Leonard wrote: "I know that V. will not come across the garden from the Lodge, and yet I look in that direction for her. I know that she is drowned, and yet I listen for her to come in at the door."   At Monks House garden, there were two Elm trees that the Woolf's had sweetly named after themselves, “Virginia and Leonard.” Leonard buried Virginia’s ashes under one of those Elms and installed a stone tablet with the last lines from her novel The Waves: “Against you, I fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! The waves crashed on the shore.”         #OTD   Today is the birthday of the Japanese-American landscape architect who designed some of the country’s best-known industrial parks, urban spaces, and campuses, Hideo Sasaki, who was born on this day in 1919. Sasaki was born in Reedley, Calif., and grew up on his family’s truck farm in the San Joaquin Valley. During WWII, Sasaki and his family suffered at an internment camp in Arizona, where Sasaki worked in beet fields.  As a very bright student, Sasaki went on to study at the University of Illinois and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Sasaki lived in the Boston area, where he taught at Harvard for more than 20 years, chairing its landscape architecture department from 1958 to 1968, and he founded his Sasaki Associates firm. By 1993, more than a third of all landscape architecture professors had been trained by Sasaki. Sasaki created industrial parks for big companies like John Deere and Upjohn. He also designed urban spaces like Boston’s Copley Square, New York’s Washington Square Village and the St. Louis Gateway Mall. In 1971, Sasaki became the first recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architects medal. Sasaki died of cancer back in August of 2000.     #OTD Today is the anniversary of the death of the plant hybridizer Rudolph Boysen who died on this day in 1950. In the 1910s and '20s, Boysen had been playing around with plant genetics. He worked on an 18-acre farm owned by John Lubbens in Napa Valley. On one June morning, Boysen took a walk along a creek bank to inspect some of his new berry creations. Boysen was astonished when he saw that one of the vines bore fruit that was almost two inches long. The fruit would become known to the world as the Boysenberry. Boysenberries are similar to blackberries but have a larger, juicier, and sweeter fruit. The Boysenberry is a cross between the loganberry, the raspberry, and the blackberry. In 1927, Boysen advertised them as "the sensation of the 20th Century."  The grower, Walter Knott, had been looking for new varieties of berries, and when he got some of Boysen's plants, he knew it was the berry he had been looking for over the past decade. Knott gave Boysen credit by naming the plant in his honor. But, Knott managed to make an empire for himself with the proceeds - establishing the world-renown Knotts Berry Farm. As for Boysen, he never earned a dime from the Boysenberry.       Unearthed Words   "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear." - William Cullen Bryant   "She calls it "stick season," this slow disrobing of summer,  leaf by leaf, till the bores of tall trees, rattle and scrape in the wind." - Eric Pinder, Author   "November comes  And November goes,  With the last red berries  And the first white snows. With night coming early,  And dawn coming late,  And ice in the bucket  And frost by the gate. The fires burn  And the kettles sing,  And earth sinks to rest  Until next spring." - Elizabeth Coatsworth     Today's book recommendation: Orchid Modern by Marc Hachadourian Marc Hachadourian is the senior curator of the incredible orchid collection at the New York Botanical Garden, and his book Modern Orchidsis outstanding. The subtitle for the book is Living and Designing with the World’s Most Elegant Houseplants - so true, Marc. You can read for yourself in Marc's book about the history of orchids and all the different types of orchids, but most of us simply want to know the answer to one or two questions like 'how do I keep my orchids happy and healthy?' and/or 'how do I get them to rebloom?' To Marc, the answer to those questions is pretty straightforward. In general, we simply need to understand the growing conditions that orchids prefer. Marc teaches us what orchids like by asking us the following six questions: Does the location have natural sunlight? How strong is the sunlight? How long does the location, receive natural light each day? What temperatures will there be throughout the year? In the daytime? In the night? Is the air constantly dry or doesn't have some moisture And finally, how often will I water and care for the plants? If you have an orchid lover in your family, this is the book for them. It would make a lovely Christmas present. In addition to learning how to care for the orchids, you will get Marc's top picks for orchids, and he has 120 of them. And, Marc also shares some pretty amazing projects that will add to the decor of your home, including terrariums, a wreath, and a kokedama. There's also a project that teaches us to make an orchid bonsai tree that is absolutely stunning. All of Marc's crafts and projects are a level up from something you would typically see in a gardening book. Marc provides a level of sophistication and elegance with his work that I just have not seen in a garden book in some time. When I can look at a project and learn something - whether it's a new tool or new product that I can source for working with my own floral arrangements - I'm so appreciative. So, hats off to Marc for tackling a subject that most of us feel we could use more help with (orchids) and by not dumbing it down. Overall, Marc shares super-helpful pro-insights and modern options for incorporating our most beloved houseplant: orchids.       Today's Garden Chore Start sowing some microgreens for the holiday season.  There is nothing like a microgreens garden to satisfy your winter gardening needs and at that same time, growing those fresh, nutrient-dense, garden to table greens that you can grow in the comfort of your own home. For most gardeners, I think the biggest challenge with growing microgreens is learning what dishes can be enhanced with them. Btw, microgreens are just the little seedlings that pop up after you plant the seeds. So, what five microgreens will I be planting in time for Christmas?  Arugula - this is the perfect topping for your Christmas Lasagna or bruschetta — and it offers the same amount of calcium as spinach. Basil - the PERFECT addition to many tart Christmas drinks. Basil is an anti-inflammatory. Radishes - wonderful, fresh addition to salads and even stuffing. As tasty as a full-grown radish. Vitamin C + Protein. If you like radishes, you'll love radish microgreens. Cilantro - for soups and stews. Super easy to grow. Lutein and Beta-Caratein Powerhouse. Pea - excellent for garnishing any egg dish and FANTASTIC for adding to mashed potatoes. 7x Vitamin C of blueberries. Onion Sprouts - use just as you would an onion. The sprouts taste just like an onion.       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart On this day in 1890, The San Francisco Call shared an article with this headline: Walking Clubs. Lazy People Have No Interest in the Subject. Here's an excerpt: "You may have heard of a hundred kinds of clubs, ... and you may belong half a dozen and yet have never heard of a walking club.  If so, you have missed one of the best of all. Autumn is here, and the bracing air makes you feel like exercising briskly. The leaves are turning to gold and scarlet, the nuts are nearly ripe, and the squirrels are scampering through the trees, chattering challenges with saucy eyes. Now is the time to organize walking clubs. A number of bright, boys and girls might get up such a club in an hour, No initiation, no fees. A President perhaps and maybe a Secretary to put down anything wonderful that may happen during the walks. The only business of the club will be to settle where they will walk. No constitution, no by-laws. Take any morning when it does not rain, see that your feet are shod strongly and comfortably, and walk as many miles as you can without fatigue. Hold up your head, throw your chest forward, and walk. Don't mince along or shuffle, but strike a long, swinging step from the hip joints. Have a destination. Select a farmhouse or a country inn three miles out. Manage to get there in time for dinner or supper, and after eating, rest one hour. Then come home by a different route. At night take a bath and go to bed. Take a walk once the first week, twice the second week, and keep that up for six weeks. Then walk three times a week, if the weather permits. Begin with a six-mile walk and lengthen it to ten. Keep up these walks during the autumn and winter — in fact, up to next summer. Get a number to go, and keep on enlisting new members. Seek a new route for every walk, if such a thing is possible. If not, add variety by dividing the club into two detachments, which shall meet at some previously agreed upon place to lunch. Then "swap routes" for the return trip, or return all together by a third route. There are a hundred ways of preventing monotony. Incite members to discover new points of interest and get an amateur botanist or geologist to join you. Study natural history as you walk, discuss, argue, reason, but don't quarrel. This is the way to be healthy and wise. Never mind the wealth— that will come of itself."       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."  

Contact the show! Aaron M. Ellison is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Senior Ecologist & Deputy Director at the Harvard Forest, and a semi-professional photographer and writer. He studies the disintegration and reassembly of ecosystems following natural and anthropogenic disturbances; thinks about the relationship between the Dao and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis; reflects on the critical and reactionary stance of Ecology relative to Modernism, blogs as The Unbalanced Ecologist, and tweets as @AMaxEll17. He is the author of A Primer of Ecological Statistics (2004/2012), A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (2012; recipient of the 2013 USA Book News International Book Award in General Science, and the 2013 award for Specialty Title in Science and Nature from The New England Society in New York City), Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research (2017), Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution (2018), and Vanishing Point (2017), a collection of photographs and poetry from the Pacific Northwest. On Wednesdays, he works wood. David Buckley Borden is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible combination of art and design, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David's projects highlight both pressing environmental issues and everyday phenomena. Driven by research and community outreach, his work manifests in a variety of forms, ranging from site-specific landscape installations in the woods to data-driven cartography in the gallery. David's place-based projects have recently earned him residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Teton Artlab, Trifecta Hibernaculum, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. David was a 2016/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University and continues to work with researchers as a Harvard Forest Associate Fellow to answer the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?” David studied landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and worked at Sasaki Associates and Ground before focusing his independent practice at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event. Links mentioned The Suffocating Embrace of Landscape and the Picturesque Conditioning of Ecology Guest Contact Info Aaron Ellison Aaron’s Wikipedia page Aaron’s Amazon Author page Aaron at Harvard Forest (Harvard University's 4000 acre laboratory & classroom Long Term Ecological Research site since 1988) Aaron The Unbalanced Ecologist Aaron on Twitter @AMaxEll17 Email Aaron Ellison David Buckley Borden David at DavidBuckleyBorden.com Associate Fellow (Designer-In-Residence) at Harvard Forest Hemlock Hospice Art/Science Installation & Exhibition by David Buckley Borden David at the Santa Fe Art Institute Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather) Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org Britta Nancarrow on Instagram Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project EcoArtsFoundation.org Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page Email the show Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

In this episode, Bill, Kristina and Charlie talk with Phyllis Zhou, Landscape Architect at Sasaki Associates, talk about using Revit for landscape architecture. Phyllis shares her thoughts on which landscape projects are ideal for Revit and the major benefits Sasaki obtains for integrating BIM into its design process.   LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xue-phyllis-zhou-2b368810/  

In this episode, Gina Ford discusses her former role as a Principal of Sasaki Associates, an internationally recognized planning and design firm in Boston, MA. We explore the idea of designing for locals and visitors simultaneously, the reasons why people resist public landscape projects and how to justify investing in the built environment. Gina is now Principal and co-founder of the award-winning firm Agency Landscape + Planning, which is based in Cambridge, MA. --- Glossary of terms used in this episode: “The GSD” - the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, which offers degrees in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban Planning and other design study programs. “CAD Skills” - this refers to proficiency in a design software program called AutoCAD, or Computer-Aided Design. “Circulation” - a term used by planners and designers referring to roads and/or pathways for pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and other modes of travel. “Bascule Bridge” - more often called a drawbridge. “Field Ops” and “MVVA” - two different NYC-based landscape architecture firms: James Corner Field Operations and Michael Van Valkenburgh, respectively.

Georgia Collins is the Senior Managing Director and Co-Leader of the Workplace Strategy Practice at CBRE. CBRE is a Global commercial real estate company that ‘helps clients identify opportunities to reduce and/or reallocate their costs, more effectively manage their resources, improve employee engagement and make decisions faster’.  With specific responsibility for research and development, Collins’ focus is on enhancing and expanding their service offerings so that clients can better understand, and more effectively deliver, environments and services that improve employee effectiveness and act as competitive differentiators in the war for talent. Collins has more than 15 years of experience in the field of workplace consulting. A recognized leader in the industry, Collins’ project experience spans a wide range of markets and industries. Prior to joining CBRE, Collins led strategic business consultancy DEGW’s North American practice where she led significant engagements for companies like Autodesk, Cisco, eBay and Microsoft. Prior to DEGW, Collins worked as an urban planner for Sasaki Associates. Change management considers how to create workplaces that inspire and allow people to work at their best. When opening a new office, CBRE uses 80% of standard resources – market stand-up desks, for example. The other 20% are designed to be specific to that particular office. The time spent defining what makes each location special is an important part of the change. So offices in Hawaii look and function differently than those in Chicago. Three steps in the process to successful design is thought of as a pyramid, with the base as the foundation, the middle, relational and finally the top of the pyramid is transformational. Specifically, Foundational – what are the things that people need to do their job? (i.e., fast internet or parking) Relational – how do you enable people to build their internal networks? (collaboration areas, break rooms, etc.) Transformational or differentiating – what makes this particular organization special? Collins’ advice for corporations is threefold. First, consider how to strip out the friction in work. Second, think about how to elevate the work experience. And third, intentionally don’t ‘plan’ everything What you will learn in this episode: What Workplace360 is Why CBRE decided to make some changes and how they figured out what changes to make How to get people that are reluctant to embrace change to come along What is ‘life admin’ or ‘work admin’ and how it might work for your office Personalization in an open office – is it possible or necessary?  

If you were asked, “Where does your food come from?” chances are high your answer is going to be “from the grocery store.” But, where does that food come from? The truth is that a very vast majority of the produce purchased in every single grocery store around the United States comes from California. This system makes it difficult for people all over the country to access food and is a major contributor to the drought that California is currently dealing with. James Miner is a managing Principal at Sasaki Associates who is working on ways to change the current food production model into something sustainable that will allow for greater access to locally grown food all across the country. Tune in as he shares his knowledge on how food is currently being distributed and what we can do to build a better model.

Christine Butterfield is the director of community development for the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which was hit by a record-breaking flood in June 2008. She speaks here about the extensive planning effort to rebuild a city in which more than 10,000 people were evacuated from areas along the Cedar River, historic neighborhoods were inundated, and thousands of residents lost their homes or saw them badly damaged. At the APA National Planning Conference in Boston in April 2011, she and her staff saw the city’s heroic efforts recognized with an APA National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practices in Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Planning, shared with Sasaki Associates, Inc., for the city’s new River Corridor Development Plan.

Michael Grove: Urban designer for Watertown-based Sasaki Associates