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Groundwater, rising seas, and toxic coastal sites

Groundwater rise will create a toxic soup in coastal cities and ecosystems far sooner than what salt water will do on its own — it could…

Nov 30, 2021

Groundwater, rising seas, and toxic coastal sites

Nov 30, 2021

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Race, history, ecology and design in the SF Bay Area: A Marin City case study

African-American workers were welcomed to the Bay Area during World War II, when shipyards in places like Marin, Oakland and San Francisco…

Nov 19, 2020

Race, history, ecology and design in the SF Bay Area: A Marin City case study

Nov 19, 2020

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Does landscape architecture have a racist, patriarchal, colonialist culture?

Consider this claim:

Mar 5, 2021

Does landscape architecture have a racist, patriarchal, colonialist culture?

Mar 5, 2021

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Placekeeping seminar

What is “equity” in landscape architecture? All of the definitions of justice matter, but in my field we have a blindspot that keeps us…

Feb 18, 2021

Feb 18, 2021

Armatures and imaginaries

This week in studio, we’re going to discuss the armatures that shape flows in landscapes, and think about different ways of representing…

Sep 2, 2020

Armatures and imaginaries

Sep 2, 2020

First day of online studio…

This is it, we start this afternoon. I’ve recorded a lecture and posted it online — it’s all about seeing landscapes as spaces where forms…

Aug 26, 2020

First day of online studio…

Aug 26, 2020

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Tools for teaching an online design studio

Choosing digital tools is a betting game. I may be dead wrong. But here are my bets for our whirlwind fall design studio:

Jul 31, 2020

Jul 31, 2020

Competition as context: who will see our work?

The BIG problem of a remote studio experience is that there’s no community that will look at the students’ work and comment on it, since…

Jul 29, 2020

Jul 29, 2020

In 22 days, I’ll start teaching my first online design studio.

Follow along to find out who makes it to the final presentations without losing the thread (myself included). We’ll be working with a real…

Jul 28, 2020

In 22 days, I’ll start teaching my first online design studio.

Jul 28, 2020

Kristina Hill

Kristina Hill

Director of UC Berkeley’s Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD), Assoc. Professor, teaching students to design cities for flooding.

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