UC Berkeley - Campus Heritage Landscape Planning
Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time. Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
SCUP Link Of the four SCUP researchers examining the reports back to the Getty Foundation from campuses which received heritage preservation grants from 2002–2007, SCUP staffer Claire Turcotte is assigned the analysis of the projects pertaining to heritage landscapes. Recently, she had the opportunity to walk through the UC Berkeley campus, after she had carefully read through and analyzed its report:
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: - April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
- April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"
Labels: campus heritage, landscape architecture, open space, PAregion, UC Berkeley
Mills College Heritage Landscape Planning
 SCUP's Campus Heritage Network is an ongoing research project funded by the Getty Grant Foundation. SCUP is working to derive lessons learned from 85 campus heritage-related planning projects funded by Getty from 2002–2007. SCUP staffer Claire Turcotte, administrator of the project and also a member of the research team has produced a summary of the landscape heritage report filed with Getty by Mills College. You can find that summary here, as well as a PDF of the complete report and a link to Mills College heritage buildings in the Council of Independent Colleges' (CIC) online database from its Historic Campus Architecture Project. If you are at all interested in campus heritage preservation, you should join the Campus Heritage Network to stay connected to others with the same interest. Since 1868, Mills College founders, and those who followed, shaped the campus with Picturesque-era exotic and native plantings and distinguished architecture. In 2006, Mills College sought guidance on how to best preserve, enhance, and further develop this unique campus setting. Funded by the Getty Foundation and Mills College, this landscape heritage study distills the values of the college founders and how these were expressed by nationally recognized landscape architects and architects over 140 years. The project singles out iconic resources and recommends how to balance future development with historic preservation. The project included historical research, analysis, and planning, and it culminated in design solutions for two key campus precincts to address current and future needs. The study demonstrates that the use of historic resources is integral to sustainable planning and design. The public lecture series, integration of the study into college courses, and publication of a book increased awareness and excitement about this study’s findings and recommendations. The result is a campus environment that expresses the unique identity of the institution.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: campus heritage, campus heritage preservation, landscape architecture, Mills College, open space, P-A
What's Next? Next Year? 5 Years? Ten Years?
SCUP–45 offers LUs for AIA. Metropolis magazine's current issue has a feature, What's Next: The 1–5–10 Issue, which is describes as "Predications for the future in the form of predictions—from the wildly speculative to the intensely pragmatic. Some snapshots from among the 15 topical categories: - Preservation: 1, GPS for disaster recovery; 5, losing old trades skills; 10, laser-scan imaging
- Green Building: 1, On-site energy; 5, prism windows; 10, aerogel insulation
- Landscape Architecture: 1, New levees in New Orleans; 5, "City Sink," embedding carbon storage in existing infrastructure; 10, Soft coastal engineering
- Health Care: 1, Urban Zen; 5, Pleasant smells; 10, Nursebots
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: architecture, design, environmental scanning, facilities planning, futuring, landscape architecture, Metropolis
Landscape Architects Create New Sustainability Resource Guides
Healthcare Design magazine reports that: The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced a new series of comprehensive online resource guides on sustainable design and planning. Created for national and local policymakers, government agencies, design professionals, planners, and students, the guides include hundreds of project case studies, research papers, organizations, and other government resources on sustainable design aggregated for the first time: Green Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Meta-Resource from ASLA.A new, comprehensive ASLA resource has been launched, the Green Infrastructure Resource Guide, which links out to resources all over the Web and aims to be a one-stop professional resource for planners and designers. "Green infrastructure can be considered a conceptual framework for understanding the "valuable services nature provides the human environment." At the national or regional level, interconnected networks of park systems and wildlife corridors preserve ecological function and create a balance between built and natural environments. At the urban level, parks and urban forestry are central to reducing energy usage costs and creating clean, temperate air. Lastly, green roofs, walls, and other techniques within or on buildings bring a range of benefits, including reduced energy consumption and dramatically decreased stormwater runoff. At all scales, green infrastructure provides real ecological, economic, and social benefits." Labels: environment, facilities planning, green, infrastructure planning, landscape architecture, open space, sustainability
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