Location Type

Landscape / Public Space

Landscape and public-space records focus on parks, cemeteries, monuments, plazas, and designed ground where civic meaning lives in the site plan as much as the structures.

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Research In Landscape / Public Space

51 published articles

Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh

Research Record

Updated 2026

Phipps Conservatory: Preserving a Glasshouse and Rethinking Its Climate

Pennsylvania Campus / Institutional Active

Pittsburgh’s 1893 conservatory joins a changing historic glasshouse to a newer landscape designed around energy, water, and environmental education.

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Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh
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6
Updated
2026
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Belle Isle Conservatory: Restoring a Building That Holds a Climate

Detroit Civic Building Active

The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory shows why preserving a glasshouse requires attention to plants, structure, and the work of maintenance together.

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Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Detroit
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4
Updated
2026
Belle Isle Aquarium, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Belle Isle Aquarium: The Systems Behind the Green Tile

Detroit Civic Building Active

The aquarium’s distinctive interior joins architectural preservation to the continuing work of caring for living collections.

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Belle Isle Aquarium, Detroit
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Sources
4
Updated
2026
RiverEdge Park

Research Record

Updated 2026

RiverEdge Park, Aurora

Aurora Landscape / Public Space Active

The project shows how a postindustrial riverfront can function as civic and cultural infrastructure while remaining tied to Aurora's downtown redevelopment geography.

Place
RiverEdge Park
Coverage
Exact
Sources
1
Updated
2026
Chicago Lakefront Beach Parking Gate System

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chicago Lakefront Beach Parking Gate System

Chicago Landscape / Public Space Active

A payment system installed at beach parking lots in 2026 makes visible an old Chicago question in a new format: how public is the...

Place
Chicago Lakefront Beach Parking Gate System
Sources
2
Updated
2026
The 78 / McDonald's Park

Research Record

Updated 2026

The 78 / McDonald’s Park, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Under Redevelopment

The May 2026 naming-rights announcement makes the Fire's privately funded stadium a sharper marker for how The 78 is being turned from undeveloped riverfront...

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The 78 / McDonald's Park
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area

Research Record

Updated 2026

Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area, Chicago

Chicago Landscape / Public Space Active

A restored natural area wrapped around waterway aeration infrastructure became a citywide symbol in May 2026 when bald eagle hatchlings were confirmed and the...

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Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area
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Sources
4
Updated
2026
Chicago Green Infrastructure Strategy

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chicago Green Infrastructure Strategy, 2026

Chicago Landscape / Public Space Active

The first major update to Chicago's green infrastructure strategy in more than a decade gives the Research Library a citywide frame for tracking stormwater,...

Place
Chicago Green Infrastructure Strategy
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Bally's Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

Bally’s Chicago Permanent Casino Site

Chicago Commercial Building Industrial History

The May 2026 topping-out milestone makes the former media-production site a live research subject about North Branch redevelopment, casino urbanism, construction governance, and public...

Place
Bally's Chicago
Coverage
Exact
Sources
2
Updated
2026
Republic Mine Industrial Landscape

Research Record

Updated 2026

Republic Mine Industrial Landscape, Republic

Michigan Industrial Site Ruin / Partial Remains

Near downtown Republic, the former mine landscape records the western reach of the Marquette Iron Range, where underground workings, open-pit expansion, rail loadouts, and...

Place
Republic Mine Industrial Landscape
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds

Research Record

Updated 2026

Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds

Michigan Industrial Site Preserved

The caving grounds make industrial history visible as absence: an abandoned urban core where sidewalks, stairs, vegetation, and trail interpretation reveal how mining reshaped...

Place
Old Town Negaunee Caving Grounds
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Sources
2
Updated
2026
Jackson Mine Pit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Jackson Mine Pit, Negaunee

Michigan Industrial Site Preserved

West of downtown Negaunee, the Jackson Mine turns the first Lake Superior iron mine into a readable landscape of pits, trail interpretation, public memory,...

Place
Jackson Mine Pit
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
3
Updated
2026

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