As urban growth continues at a relentless pace, Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, believes it is crucial for landscape architects to weave a site’s history into new designs, but not in ways that are nostalgic or staid. He points to Philadelphia’s Society Hill and the Russell Page Garden at The Frick Collection as early inspirations for managing change with continuity. More recent projects

Join The New York Botanical Garden in Manhattan for a fascinating evening series starting October 5 that explores how ingenuity and deep insights are re-imagining urban landscape design. This year’s featured landscape architects Barbara Aronson, Ken Smith, and Peter Walker respond to a wide range of conditions and aesthetic demands by redefining beauty, fusing influences,

As managing partner of Jerusalem-based Shlomo Aronson Architects, Barbara Aronson designs resilient landscapes in arid locales characterized by extreme water scarcity at sites such as Negev Desert and the Dead Sea. Reinterpreting "green" beauty, these sustainable projects take advantage of natural processes and build on traditional methods of agriculture and irrigation. A graduate of Harvard