Department faculty, with support from funded graduate research assistants, have produced a number of publications on research projects and/or coursework. Each year, employment opportunities to collaborate on these and other research/creative projects provide graduate students with research, design and graphic experience for their future careers.

BLAKE GARDEN: A HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE

Although short articles had been written on UC Berkeley's Blake Garden and an oral history published by the Bancroft Library (1988), Blake Garden: A History of Landscape Change was the first easily accessible publication that makes clear how this garden's physical design has evolved. Compiled by Professor Linda Jewell, past garden manager John Norcross, and graduate students, this report relies on previous publications, historic photographs, archival drawings, maps, and interviews with key figures to chronicle the evolution of Blake Garden for its visitors and garden lovers worldwide.

This book is available at Blake Garden and in the Department of Landscape Architecture office.

For more information on Blake Garden, please visit the Blake Garden website.

THE DELTA INITIATIVE

The Delta Initiative is a multi-year research and planning effort at UC Berkeley on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California. Two publications recording the process have been produced by students and faculty.

ReEnvisioning the Delta: Alternative Futures for the Heart of California [pdf]

Assesses the threats that uncontrolled urbanization poses for the Delta and proposes alternative models for securing the Delta over the long term.

The Great Delta Charrette: A Report to the California Department of Water Resources [pdf]

The kickoff event of the initiative, this symposium explores future implications of ongoing urbanization of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region and alternative futures for the region.

For more information about these publications, please visit The Delta Initiative: Re-envisioning the Heart of California website.

WATER AND LAND: A STUDY TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS

After Hurricane Katrina occurred in the Mississippi Delta the department decided to concentrate efforts on the California Delta, which is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.

In 2006, Professor Peter Bosselmann organized a tour of The Netherlands offered insight for design and planning in the California Delta. Fifteen students visited a number of informative sites, including the Westergasfabriek Culture Park (a former gas factory turned public park), Ijburg, a proposed archipelago of eight islands that will provide new land for housing, commercial use and recreational space, and new public parks and housing projects throughout Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Water and Land is comprised of short essays on many of the visited sites, written by the participating graduate students.

LAND USE PLANNING TO PROMOTE MARINE CONSERVATION OF THE CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM IN MOOREA, FRENCH POLYNESIA

Graduate student Shay Boutillier and Professor Tim Duane established, at the Gump South Pacific Biological Field Station in French Polynesia, this research and education project on land use planning and marine conservation. The focus of the research was to explore how to promote sustainability on islands where land use development threatens coral reef ecosystem health. This publication presents the analysis culminating from two graduate environmental planning studio courses (in 2004 and 2005), a field study trip to Moorea in 2005, and a conference in Moorea that addressed the interaction between land use planning and marine conservation.