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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…

4 min readNov 30, 2021

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Groundwater, rising seas, and toxic coastal sites

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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…

6 min readNov 19, 2020

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

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

Consider this claim:

3 min readMar 5, 2021

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

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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…

2 min readFeb 18, 2021

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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…

4 min readSep 2, 2020

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Armatures and imaginaries

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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…

2 min readAug 26, 2020

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First day of online studio…

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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:

1 min readJul 31, 2020

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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…

1 min readJul 29, 2020

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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…

1 min readJul 28, 2020

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

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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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