Confronting Floods: Protecting Piermontfrom Mother Nature

Rockland County Times December 2017 (Photo by Libby Zematis) The studio links landscape architecture students with flood-risk Hudson Riverfront communities to explore design alternatives for more climate resilient, beautiful and connected waterfront areas. Confronting...

Design for Hudson River waterfront wins national honor

Cornell Chronicle October 2017 Graduate students Hong Gao, Luyao Kong and Qianli Feng received the prestigious award for Weaving the Waterfront, a design that combines climate-resilient programs and public spaces. The ASLA Awards recognize top work of landscape...

Cornell’s Hudson River Conservation Work Nets DEC Award

Cornell CALS May 2017 (Photo by Libby Zematis) Cornell’s approach to conservation in the Hudson watershed has been to work with communities on their own terms and at their own pace. […] The approach has paid off in myriad ways. Of the 260 municipalities in the...

Design exhibit offers N.Y. town climate change defense

Cornell Chronicle June 2016 To keep riverfront communities intact in the face of rising waters due to climate change, landscape architecture master’s students at Cornell’s Climate-Adaptive Design (CAD) studio are sketching sturdy, flexible concepts for a city along...