Ecological Design: Strategies for the vulnerable city: Adapting precarious areas in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change
According to the United Nations, approximately three out of five cities in the world with…
Faculty Publications
Rocket City: Envisioning a Future for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is NASA’s official Visitor Information Center…
Inmigrando: Strengthening destination cities
Today, the scale and speed of the movement of flows of goods…
When Urbanization Comes to Ground
Authors: Carlos Arnaiz and Peter G. Rowe. ORO, 2019 This book is a loose…
Rīo Ciudad, Monterrey: Space Production, Ecology and Culture
Authors: Peter G. Rowe and Roberto Pasini It has often been said that we…
A City in Blue and Green: The Singapore Story
Authors: Peter G. Rowe and Limin Hee Springer Open, 2019. This book is about…
Urbanismo ecológico en/na América Latina
“Ecological urbanism is an initiative of the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University…
Beyond appearances: Community activism and New York City’s High Line
Journal of Landscape Architecture Volume 14, 2019 – Issue 3 Conventional…
Urban Blocks and Grids: History, Technical Features and Outcomes
Authors: Peter G. Rowe, Hanne J. van den Berg and Liang Wang. Scholars Press,…
City Design, Planning & Policy Innovations: The Case of Hermosillo
This publication summarizes the outcomes and…
Housing: What’s Next? From Thinking Unit to Building the City’
Over the course of the 20th…
Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects…
Towns, Ecology, and the Land
Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly…
Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California
This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises…
Resilient Imaginaries: Socio-Ecological Urban Design in Metro Manila, The Philippines
With the notable uptick of natural disasters impacting densely-populated areas, attention to the subject of…
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history…
Ephemeral Urbanism: Does Permanence Matter?
Ephemeral Urbanism invites us to ponder material impermanence. Is a recognition of the transitory nature…
Climate Change Adaptation in North America: Fostering Resilience and the Regional Capacity to Adapt
This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change…
Landscape Tunings: An Urban Park at the Danube
Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also…
Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design
Blue Dunes chronicles the design of artificial barrier islands developed to protect the Mid-Atlantic region…
Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political,…
China's Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being
Photograph of “China’s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being Authors: Peter G. Rowe; Ann Forsyth and…
Beyond the City
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for…
Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated…
The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India – Documenting the Exhibition and its Allied Events
The Urban Design Research Institute hosted the State of Architecture: Practice and Processes in India,…