Landscape Architecture’s Role in Low Impact Development Designing For Sustainability, Spring 2013 Podcast

Landscape Architecture’s Role in Low Impact Development Designing For Sustainability, Spring 2013

Loren Oki
UC Davis's Landscape Architecture lunchbag lecture series is offered this spring by professor Loren Oki and focuses on peoples' need for development that is aesthetically and functionally designed and yet tempered by a concern for sustainability.
Green streets in El Cerrito
Our ninth and final lecture: Josh Bradt, watershed specialist and project manager at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, discusses greening up the urban streets of El Cerrito.
May 31, 2013
38 min
Video
The New California Park: Opportunities for Sustainable Low Impact Development
Lecture 8: Marq Truscott, LDA advisory board member and friend of the program, discusses designing parks today. Marq is President of the firm, Quadriga, in Sacramento.
May 24, 2013
40 min
Video
Integrating Storm water Management with Urban Design
Lecture 7: LDA program alumnus and visiting lecturer, Kevin Perry, of Urban Rain Design studio in Portland, OR, discusses managing storm water in an urban setting.
May 17, 2013
50 min
Video
A sustainable contractor's perspective: water, case studies and return on investment
Lecture 6: Aaron Majors, owner and department manager of construction at Cagwin & Dorward of Novato, CA, discusses his views on being a contractor today - a contractor who is sensitive to sustainability.
May 10, 2013
51 min
Video
Managing Landscapes for Sustainability and Watershed Functions
Lecture 5: Eric Berntsen, staff environmental scientist at the California State Water Resources Control Board, proposes how he envisions managing landscapes for their own sustainability and watershed functionality.
May 3, 2013
50 min
Video
Designing Residential Landscapes for MWELO
Lecture 4: Cheryl Buckwalter, executive director of EcoLandscape California and Landscape Liaisons, discusses her ideas for designing residential landscapes for California's Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance.
Apr 26, 2013
44 min
Video
Landscapes for a New California
Lecture 3: Julie Saare-Edmonds of the Water Use Efficiency Branch of the California Department of Water Resources discusses her ideas for landscapes for a new California.
Apr 19, 2013
42 min
Video
Course Introduction
Lecture 1: Impacts of residential development on urban creeks and streams.
Apr 5, 2013
50 min
Video