We visit the floating gardens in the Chicago river. We employ water conservation into all of our designs and advocate for the river as public space.

Floating gardens are having a renaissance. Faced with the realities of climate change, this centuries-old technique is being adapted in different parts of

How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as c…

in rotterdam, the recycled island foundation has retrieved debris from the city's river to create a prototype floating park, which is now open to visitors.

Completed for the 2014 Patri Fellowship in Urban Design by Andrea Haynes. To download a copy set up for booklet printing please follow this link: https://www.spur.org/events/2014-09-09/building-san-franciscos-floating-wetlands

Seattle’s Duwamish River estuary has something new afloat along the shorelines. If you have the chance to visit the river this spring, you might see several structures holding large, square mats of wood straw, biodegradable foam, and other natural materials tethered to piles near the river’s edge. You might also see me or other team members perched on the wooden frames, counting fish, measuring plants, and sampling water quality.

In the April issue of Sunset Magazine , there was a call for readers with vegetable gardens to submit a picture to the magazine's Facebook f...