Interested in seeing a project that supports urban agriculture, restorative and recuperative outdoor spaces and supports native ecological health and habitat?
Jacob Blue will present Rethke Terrace, the first of five proposed supportive housing facilities planned for the City of Madison. Rethke Terrace is a 60-unit, single-individual supportive housing facility located on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. The developer of the project, Heartland Housing, of the Heartland Alliance, had a particular interest in developing a landscape that could provide urban agricultural desires, restorative and recuperative outdoor spaces and support native ecological health and habitat. Blue developed a food forest concept for the site. Selecting edible species from canopy trees down to groundlayer vegetation, Blue and his team developed a landscape plan that provides an ecological approach to urban agriculture. Blue will discuss his approach and the species he selected for the project, as well as show images of the installed and constructed facility.
Blue is a landscape architect with Ayres Associates in Madison, Wisconsin. For years Blue has been changing how design is done. A national leader in the emerging fields of ecosystem services management and ecological design, he is a classically trained landscape architect and field ecologist. Blue has co-authored papers and textbooks exploring the nexus of design and ecological science and has participated in and led ecologically based design projects throughout the United States, India, Peru and Chile. Using a subtractive rather than an additive design approach, he evaluates the historical and potential ecological communities of a site and then carves out the design program to maximize the benefits delivered by healthy ecosystems.
Don't forget to register!
WNLA webinar
Wednesday, Oct. 5
12-1:p.m.
Free for WNLA members
$50 for non-members
Jacob Blue will present Rethke Terrace, the first of five proposed supportive housing facilities planned for the City of Madison. Rethke Terrace is a 60-unit, single-individual supportive housing facility located on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. The developer of the project, Heartland Housing, of the Heartland Alliance, had a particular interest in developing a landscape that could provide urban agricultural desires, restorative and recuperative outdoor spaces and support native ecological health and habitat. Blue developed a food forest concept for the site. Selecting edible species from canopy trees down to groundlayer vegetation, Blue and his team developed a landscape plan that provides an ecological approach to urban agriculture. Blue will discuss his approach and the species he selected for the project, as well as show images of the installed and constructed facility.
Blue is a landscape architect with Ayres Associates in Madison, Wisconsin. For years Blue has been changing how design is done. A national leader in the emerging fields of ecosystem services management and ecological design, he is a classically trained landscape architect and field ecologist. Blue has co-authored papers and textbooks exploring the nexus of design and ecological science and has participated in and led ecologically based design projects throughout the United States, India, Peru and Chile. Using a subtractive rather than an additive design approach, he evaluates the historical and potential ecological communities of a site and then carves out the design program to maximize the benefits delivered by healthy ecosystems.
Don't forget to register!
WNLA webinar
Wednesday, Oct. 5
12-1:p.m.
Free for WNLA members
$50 for non-members
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