This new video from the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architecture) is “an animation that explains how to transform your property into a real wildlife habitat. Learn how native plants and designed structures provide what nature needs.” It’s great to see the Landscape Architecture profession starting to raise awareness on urban habitat design. They have also been involved in the Sustainable Sites Initiative, “an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.” Hopefully this trend will continue and more practicing Landscape Architects will start to include habitat design as a standard practice for all of their designs.
Designing Neighborhoods for People and Wildlife on Vimeo.
