For cities to be truly sustainable and resilient, wastewater treatment needs to be localized, not centralized, chorused landscape architects and others at the American Society of Landscape Architects' 2011 Annual Meeting & Expo, held on Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 in San Diego.
“There is room for improvement in the modern approach to stormwater management,” said Jack Ahern, a professor in the Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.