Suzanne Schwab is a ULI Emergent Leader
November 29, 2014
Congratulations to Suzanne Schwab, who received the Emergent Leadership Award from ULI’s Orange County/Inland Empire District Council Young Leaders Group.
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Third Street Promenade is 25
November 29, 2014
PlaceWorks’ Principal Woodie Tescher helped the City of Santa Monica celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Third Street Promenade. Woodie was the lead planner for the project, and he and former mayor Denny Zane shared stories about the planning process. See article in the Santa Monica Daily Press.
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APA Section Awards
November 29, 2014
The APA Section Awards are out, and PlaceWorks is once again well represented.
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Breaking New Ground in the Coachella Valley
November 29, 2014
PlaceWorks is the lead coordinator of an international design competition —called “Breaking New Ground”— focused on workforce housing for farm and service workers in the Coachella Valley. The competition is sponsored by The California Endowment as part of its Building Healthy Communities program.
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“Harnessing the Potential of Urban Rooftops”
November 29, 2014
The Fall 2014 issue of Esri’s ArcNews published an article by PlaceWorks’ David Early and Sarah Sutton about the Rooftops Resources Project, which developed a way to assess urban rooftops for their capacity to grow food, capture rainwater, and generate electricity
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The Revised Practical Guide to Environmental Risk Is Available Now
October 29, 2014
If you are already familiar with our Practical Guide series, we offer a revised edition in a new graphical setting with some new and updated material. If you are not already familiar with the Practical Guides, this is a good introduction. “A Practical Guide to Environmental Risk: Perception, Assessment, Communication” describes some of the human and scientific processes at work when an environmental hazard rears its head.
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