BLACKSBURG, Va., March 9 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
What if we could design with water, rather than against it?
To ensure that coastal communities remain resilient and adaptive in the face of environmental change, landscape architecture students in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design envisioned innovative landscape remodeling for the cities of Virginia Beach and Hampton.
Their ideas and resulting designs were the focus of the fall Landscape Design and Planning Studio, a course for fifth-year undergraduates and master's degree students that represents a long-standing collaboration between academia, professional practice, and local government.
For over seven years, s...