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2012 CSI Firms and Projects Announced

Over 20 design firms and 30 projects have been selected for LAF’s 2012 Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. This unique research collaboration matches LAF-funded faculty-student research teams with leading practitioners to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects as Landscape Performance Series Case Study Briefs.

Participating firms were selected based on the quality of projects submitted, potential to produce comprehensive quantified benefits, availability of baseline information, and commitment to the research collaboration. Practitioners provide the background information and narrative for projects, help identify potential performance benefits and information to quantify them, and provide the faculty-student research teams with access to key project personnel, photos, documents, clients, and other stakeholders.

The collaborations are now underway — look for updates throughout the summer and new Case Study Briefs in the fall from these participating firms and projects:

  • AECOM
    Stuyvesant Cove Waterfront Open Space
  • Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute
    Beijing Olympic Forest Park
    Tangshan Nanhu Eco-city Central Park
  • The Berger Partnership
    Magnuson Park Wetlands
  • CDF, Inc.
    Queens Botanical Garden Visitor Center
    Charles City Permeable Streetscape
  • Design Workshop
    Cherry Creek North & Fillmore Plaza
    South Grand Boulevard Great Streets Initiative
    Park Avenue/ Highway 50
  • Ecological Landscape Design & Restoration
    Stone Mill at the New York Botanical Garden
  • EDSA
    Castiglion del Bosco
  • EPT Design
    Frontier Project
    Sonia Sotomayor Learning Academies
  • Jones and Jones
    Cedar Lake Park and Trail
  • KMS Design Group
    Black Rock Sanctuary
  • Mia Lehrer + Associates
    Vista Hermosa Natural Park
  • MIG, Inc.
    West San Gabriel River Parkway Nature Trail
  • Mithun
    Eden Hall Campus at Chatham University
    High Point
    Hubbard Homestead Park
  • Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
    Tujunga Wash Greenway
  • OLIN
    Celebrezze Federal Building Plaza
  • Frederick Law Olmsted
    Back Bay Fens
  • Reed Hilderbrand
    Central Wharf Plaza
  • Sasaki
    The Avenue
  • SWA Group
    Cross Creek Ranch
  • TBG
    Park Seventeen
  • UW Campus Sustainability Fund
    Biodiversity Green Wall & Water Harvesting System
  • Wells Appel
    Pennswood Village Regional Storm Water Quality and Management System

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