The Landscape Institute Ideas competition

The Landscape Institute, the Mayor of London and the Garden Museum are hosting an open ideas competition, to design innovative new places that enrich London’s Green Infrastructure. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts including the founders of New York’s High Line - a public park created on a 1.45 mile-long elevated rail structure in the heart of Manhattan.

The winners will be announced by Mayor of London Boris Johnson as part of the High Line Symposium taking place at the Garden Museum from 5-8 October 2012. Shortlisted entries will be displayed at the Garden Museum and featured in the LI's journal 'Landscape', and each shortlisted entrant/team will receive a free ticket to the Symposium.

Download thecompetition brief and the registration form.

Find out more about Green Infrastructure

Closing date for submissions: 14 September, 2pm.

Prizes:

• First prize: £2500
• Runner up: £500

Source:

http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/ideas/

For students who are going places

The Landscape Institute Travel Award 2012

The Landscape Institute Travel Award is awarded from a fund set up in memory of David Ashmore, Adrian Brunswick and Michael Norton, three landscape architects who were tragically killed in an air crash at Biggin Hill on 13 January 1989. A legacy was added to the fund on the death of Mary Mitchell in December 1988.

The fund provides for an annual award for which student members of the Institute may apply. The aim is to provide applicants with an opportunity to travel which might not otherwise be open to them. Travel should be extracurricular, focusing on a specific topic of interest. It can be in the form of a study-specific trip, or extension of existing travel arrangements for the purpose of study.

In 2012 the amount offered for the award is to a maximum of £750. The closing date for applications will be Monday 30 April 2012. Applications will be reviewed by a panel convened by the LI’s Education and Membership Committee and the winning applicant will be notified by 31 May.

For more information and an application form, click here.

Source:

http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/news/index.php/news_articles/view/for_students_who_are_going_places/

America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design

Richard Jackson waits for a bus outside Los Angeles International Airport. The UCLA scientist is a leading voice in the call for better urban design for the sake of public health. // David Zentz for The Chronicle

Researchers can have revelatory moments in remarkable places—the African savannah, an ancient library, or the ruins of a lost civilization. But Richard J. Jackson's epiphany occurred in 1999 in a banal American landscape: a dismal stretch of the car-choked Buford Highway, near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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