landscape architecture

Students’ smart city ideas to help Spokane redevelopment

PULLMAN, Wash. – WSU students are using emerging smart technology ideas this semester in their designs for the future of Spokane’s university district. Lectures, workshops and community engagement will culminate in public presentations later this fall.

WSU graduate student models Spokane neighborhood for prediction, prevention of burglary

By Alyssa Patrick, College of Engineering and Architecture SPOKANE, Wash. – Crime prevention theories suggest that when a burglar decides to rob a house, he or she chooses a home that gives passers-by a poor view of entry points such as doors, windows and garages.

Students spearhead sustainable village plan

      SPOKANE, Wash. – The concept of an experimental, self-sustaining community in the Hillyard neighborhood has been approved by the city and its department of health, and citizens have volunteered to live there for a five-year trial.   Washington State University landscape architecture students led by associate professor Bob Scarfo spearheaded planning for […]

Garden of readin’

Jade plants, ferns, Christmas cacti, philodendrons, dieffenbachias and hoyas line the windowsills of Fischer Agricultural Science Library at WSU Pullman, thanks to Rhonda Gaylord, Fischer’s library specialist and resident gardener. In a small library with limited staff, Gaylord’s job tasks are broad, including working at the circulation desk, processing reserve materials, checking in journals, overseeing […]

Speaker to talk landscape architecture in the West

Daniel Kemmis, director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana, will speak on “The Role of Landscape Architecture in the Emerging West” March 28.Sponsored by the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and the Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning, the lecture will take place at 2 p.m. in […]

Landscaping counts when students pick their schools

You can’t judge a book by its cover, or a university by its appearance. But we often do. Phillip S. Waite, assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, thinks it is human nature to put importance on aesthetics. And college campuses across the country, in hopes of attracting prospective students, should take […]