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By Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, ASLA
Social Urbanism: Reframing Spatial Design – Discourses from Latin America, a new book by Maria Bellalta, ASLA, dean of the School of Landscape Architecture at the Boston Architectural College, is a welcome addition to the growing number of publications on the social justice-oriented form of urbanism, architecture, and public space emanating from Medellín and Colombia. The achievements of social urbanism have rightfully become synonymous with Medellín in the world of landscape architecture, urban planning and design, and architecture.
So what is social urbanism? Is it a top-down and bottom-up planning, design, and implementation process for improving the quality of life of low-income and disenfranchised communities? Appropriately, there is no single definition in the book. There are various takes, which range from comparisons to Jaime Lerner’s strategy of urban acupuncture, integrated community approaches (engagement and participation), and pr
By Chioma Lewis
Growing up in New York City as a “street brat,” as author Walter H. Kehm calls it, he had a nature deficit.
As an urban kid, with few nearby parks to play at, he and his friends had only concrete sidewalks for games like stickball and stoopball.
“I grew up with concrete, I grew up with asphalt,” Kehm said.
While playing stickball, he noticed grass growing out of the expansion joints in the sidewalks, and that phenomenon fascinated him.
“I used to say to myself, “How the heck does grass grow in concrete?” Kehm said.
After going to school for landscape architecture, he decided to bring nature into cities for low- income, racially and ethnically diverse communities like the one he grew up in.
Buck Abbey, who has been involved with the Baton Rouge Botanic Gardens since the 1980s, will offer a landscape architect s inside view of how the Independence Park site was developed at 10 a.m. Jan. 9.
A retired professor from the LSU School of Landscape Architecture, Abbey will trace the gardens beginning from the first plantings in 1976 and give a hint of whatâs planned for the future.
The event, hosted by the Baton Rouge Botanic Garden Foundation, will have limited in-person seating or online on Facebook Live.Â
Abbey will provide a guided chronology from the time the land was a successful plantation through its use as the Baton Rouge Airport until it became the 10 wonderful gardens within a garden today. The most recent addition, The Southern Classic Walkway featuring Southern Living Plants, opened in 2018. The gardens connect to the East Baton Rouge Main Library on Goodwood Boulevard.