Tags: arts & culture

“Completing the Loop” Plan Wins National Award for Excellence in Sustainability

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Riverlife and evolveEA were honored by the American Planning Association (APA) Sustainable Communities Division at their 2022 awards ceremony.

Riverlife Completing the Loop Plan Charts an Equitable New Future

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Pittsburgh's Completing the Loop plan is driven by an environmental justice vision to reconnect and enhance its most precious natural assets.

Ice House Studios Courtyard

Starting with the imperative of controlling rainwater flow, evolveEA's interdisciplinary approach to the Ice House Building Courtyard included landscape design, hardscaping, roofing, plumbing, green roof and structural elements for the public art space.

ART+PLACE: The Roots of Community Identity

Art can knit together the lived experience of neighborhood identity with long term and sometimes abstract principles of community development. The Pittsburgh community of Larimer has been cultivating a local culture of sustainability through ecodistrict planning and has used art and creative placemaking to build capacity around neighborhood stormwater issues, urban agriculture and economic development.