Fight or Flight: Space Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture

Fight or Flight: Space Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture

When we lose direct access to nature, we lose ourselves. As the planet degrades, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa asks: what is the price of survival? If a SWOT analysis were conducted on human society today, Strengths, Weakness and Opportunities would be overwhelmed by perceived Threats with climate change and AI at the top of the list, closely followed by space colonization. The goal of this essay is to address these threats while attempting to clarify what matters most and why.

Can conservatives return to core values?

Can conservatives return to core values?

In this essay, Ed Shoucair, the President of the Collaborative, discusses what it means to be a conservative in today’s world. He says “The values of many conservatives no longer make sense to me. As a child, I learned America’s strength comes from working hard, carefully managing one’s assets, thinking for yourself and tirelessly seeking to form a more perfect union.”

International ‘Superfund’ could ease the human, economic costs of health crises

International ‘Superfund’ could ease the human, economic costs of health crises

A superfund to which all countries contribute could ease national debt, find solutions to disease and climate change. Today’s global pandemic makes it clear that lethal viruses are here to stay. Equally evident is the need for new ideas to better address pandemics and the intensifying public health emergency of global warming.

The Neponset River Greenway

The Neponset River Greenway

The Neponset River Greenway was named one of America’s “Great Places” by the American Planning Association. The Collaborative led an energetic master planning and design process that created the Greenway and today includes a series of waterfront parks, an 8+ mile multi-use trail, restored wildlife areas and wetlands, interpretive exhibits, a major soccer complex, play areas, and courts.