A Better Standard of Better Design
By Lance Hosey / On May 29th, 2013
#ForewordFriday: Landscape edition
By Jason Leppig / On February 8th, 2013
Reviewers from The Dirt to The Metropolitan Field Guide and beyond have said nothing but positive things about Travis Beck's Principles of Ecological Design.
The Beauty of Beauty: Aesthetics' Power in Design
By Admin / On December 17th, 2012
Lance Hosey, author of The Shape of Green, wrote an article for GreenBiz.com in which he reflected on the idea that technology's design could potentially reduce its manufacturing waste.
Island Press Staff Picks
By Admin, Jason Leppig / On June 25th, 2012
This week's pick is from Senior Editor, Heather Boyer.
From Heather:
#ForewordFriday The Shape of Green
By Admin / On June 22nd, 2012
Can beauty save the planet? Yes, if we are as smart about how things look as we are about how they work, believes architect and designer Lance Hosey, author of The Shape of Green.
A Few Minutes with Lance Hosey
By Admin / On June 21st, 2012
Lance Hosey is President and CEO of GreenBlue and author of The Shape of Green.
Island Press: You write that conventional views of sustainability are short-sighted. How so?
The Responsible Business
By Lance Hosey / On May 15th, 2012
On May 4, at the Living Futures conference in Portland, I had the great pleasure of hearing a keynote by the uproarious Carol Sanford.
#OccupySprawl: Easier, Faster and More Productive
By Admin / On October 25th, 2011
Inspired by the recent popular discontent expressed so colorfully on Wall Street, I offer this proposal: Occupy Sprawl!
It Is a Matter of Scale or What is the Connection between Brain Size and Sprawl
By Admin / On September 26th, 2011
Scale is fundamental to urban design. If you get it right, and achieve a well-proportioned space between buildings, you have a sound basis to build upon. Even if the architecture is far from perfect, the public realm you create can be decent and comfortable. If you get the scale wrong and your master plan is built, even the most lustrous architecture won’t remediate the failure of space-making; people might still use it for utilitarian reasons (think the parking lot of a Wal-Mart), but will not enjoy it.
Reduced or Not, the Mortgage Interest Deduction Can Help Fix Sprawl
By Galina Tachieva / On September 19th, 2011
As of late, the mortgage interest deduction (MID), a tax break many Americans have become accustomed to, has become the focus of much debate and controversy. It first became the subject of heated discussion when President Obama’s debt commission suggested its reduction. They argued that in addition to reducing deficits, such reform could also help slow the growth of sprawl.