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Innovative water resilience from a city below sea level

Innovative water resilience from a city below sea level

"Public spaces can do double duty. A park can also provide a natural defense against floods, and a set of public squares can also act as rainwater storage."

Joan HydeAugust 6, 2022

Digital twins

Digital twins

“This is like a living, breathing kind of content in that it has the archives in it, it has current and then it has future.”

Joan HydeDecember 9, 2021

Landprocess's state-of-the-art project

Landprocess's state-of-the-art project

This is the kind of amazing project that might be considered utopian if it weren’t already in place.

Joan HydeDecember 2, 2020

Design For Distancing: Ideas Guidebook

Design For Distancing: Ideas Guidebook

The “Design for Distancing Ideas Guidebook” referenced here features ten plans for creating temporary, low-cost spaces for distanced outdoor engagement and commerce in public areas.

Joan HydeAugust 19, 2020

Design in the age of pandemics

Design in the age of pandemics

“We have to return to this kind of medieval spatial response to disease control, which means that architecture and urban design [and landscape architecture] suddenly become medical."

Joan HydeMay 1, 2020