EcoDistricts: a holistic approach to better neighborhoods
The EcoDistrict planning approach to the creation of better neighborhoods provides a flexible, holistic and rigorous framework for organizing and achieving policy, sustainability and investment goals. We recently attended the EcoDistricts Foundation Training that was [...]
PARKing Day 2017: UpStudio innovates with the University of Pittsburgh
PARKing Day 2017 is finally here! UpStudio Landscapes is excited to be a part of the University of Pittsburgh's inaugural PARKing Day. We collaborated with the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute and the Living Learning [...]
USL is now a PennDOT Business Partner
We are excited to announce that UpStudio Landscapes is now a certified business partner with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. As a registered consultant with PennDOT, we are able to provide landscape architecture consulting services [...]
This is Landscape Architecture- a month long celebration
April is world landscape architecture month, an international celebration of landscape architecture. To help introduce the public to the profession, ASLA is asking members to share images of landscape-architect designed spaces with the tag "this [...]
Good Design Delivers @ AIA Build Pittsburgh 2017
A first for our staff, we headed to AIA Build Pittsburgh's Conference "Good Design Delivers" for a day of continuing education. Held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the conference focused on the [...]
Green Infrastructure in Parks
As so many parks are a part of greater stream systems, parks can bring both recreational and ecological value to communities. The concept of incorporating green infrastructure into parks in not an entirely new idea. [...]