School of Environmental Design
Type: News Story
A brand-new park is about to take shape in the heart of Doylestown, thanks to a collaboration between faculty and students in Temple’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and community volunteers.
September 17, 2015
Type: News Story
Professor of Community and Regional Planning Jeffrey Featherstone is lending his expertise to revitalization efforts in the West Bank of the Jordan River.
June 11, 2015
Type: News Story
Funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Temple University will help plan health, environmental and economic improvements in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. The $200,000 grant will target the cleanup and reuse of former industrial sites.
April 24, 2015
Type: News Story
Over the summer, a group of Temple students studied transportation, urban agriculture and emergency food services in Norristown, Pa., to better understand the community's access to nutritious, safe, affordable food.
August 26, 2014
Type: News Story
With landscape architecture major Thu Ngan Han leading the charge, fresh vegetables will soon be popping up in a community garden located in the Lawncrest section of Philadelphia. This will be the 25-plot garden’s second growing season.
May 9, 2014
Type: News Story
Thanks to a four-year $1-million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Temple’s Main Campus will become a living laboratory for the study and evaluation of stormwater management controls and practices in urban environments.
January 27, 2014
Type: News Story
In the latest installment of the Temple Made student profile series, meet Denise Racquel Smith, a 31-year-old horticulture major with a passion for plants.
February 18, 2013
Landscape Architecture professor honored by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Type: Accolade
July 18, 2012
Landscape Architecture and Horticulture team chosen for national research study
Type: Accolade
July 18, 2012
Type: News Story
Diana Fernandez, B.S. Landscape Architecture. Fernandez was able to combine her leadership skills with a love of design and drawing, which led her to discover architecture as a potential career.
May 4, 2012
Type: News Story
Julia McCabe, M.S. Community and Regional Planning. At Temple Ambler, McCabe, 36 from Upper Dublin, Pa., is president of the Temple Planning Student Organization, co-chair of the Ambler Campus Sustainability Council and a research assistant with the Center for Sustainable Communities.
May 3, 2012
Type: News Story
Students and faculty in Temple Ambler’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture are busy preparing for their 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show exhibit, “Aloha ‘āina: A Return to Life with the Land,” which seeks to show how the Hawaiian concept of living with the land can be applied in the northeast. The show runs runs March 4-11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
February 22, 2012
Type: News Story
Experts at Temple's Ambler Arboretum say this winter’s unseasonably warm weather has created confusion among local flora and fauna. Early spring bloomers’ growth cycles are happening three to five weeks early, according to director Jenny Rose Carey.
February 9, 2012