"Y" Shape Jetty project, located the Rosada Lagoon in Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, provides an alternative for the coastal development in Mexico. It establishes a new Coast-Lagoon-Mainland-based life circle instead of putting all stress on the narrow beach zone. This is not only a new circle of life but a circle of environment protestation and sustainable tourism development. The salt ponds industry, fishing, boating, eco-tourism, restaurant, hotels will be available around this jetty project in the middle of the lagoon, which serves as a transition joint connecting opportunities on the coast and mainland. Within this new stretched life circle, more local people, groups, and parties can be a part of it together contributing to the development of social justice.

Cleaning water and the environment with green sanitation infrastructure provides a framework for a thriving urban ecosystem where human waste is transformed into resources to grow food, plant-based products, and create urban habitat.

Despite unprecedented public transit investment and transit-oriented development over the last two decades in Los Angeles, transit ridership remains low. More than in any other US city, the vast majority of transit riders in LA come from very-low and extremely low-income households.

Yet LA Metro's transit plans have failed to adequately cater to their needs. TOD densities around stations often produce luxury condos, whose inhabitants avoid public transit. In an attempt to reverse this demographic mismatch between transit and development, this project investigates a better coordination between bus service, new public housing provision, and street design around the Vermont Station on LA's Expo Line.

The project sees the 2028 LA Olympics as a major opportunity to demonstrate such coordinated planning by delivering a new-generation bus system for the city, converting Olympic housing to public housing, and delivering amenity-rich streets that not only cater to the Games, but also deliver a much needed legacy of amenities to the surrounding marginalized communities.

In stormwater management, monitoring analysis is much more accurate than hydrological calculations or simulations. For performance evaluation, high-precision data is needed but hard to come by.

Aiming to find out how much runoff can be reduced by canopy trees, lawn, and bioretention basins with different levels of rainfall, this research uses a wireless sensor network to visualize the whole rainfall process of a closed-watershed campus site named Shengyinyuan. Quantitative performance assessment has also been achieved with the minute-level data collected.

This study provides a set of monitoring indicators and methods for rainwater management which has great potential for more applications and can help landscape architects to evaluate post occupancy. On the other hand, the rainfall process visualization works are good materials for education.

In the 11 rainfall events monitored in the site, canopy trees contributed more than 32% of the interception, and 4 bioretention basins achieved obvious runoff reduction especially in continuous, large and short, high-intensity rainfall events（nearly 10% runoff reduced by 2% area）. Several important results indicated further design improvement.

Aiming at the spatial regeneration and community building synergy development, the Dàshílànr Micro-Regeneration Handbook takes the Dàshílànr area in Beijing as example, the micro-regeneration as the guiding concept, to explore the Beijing old town Hutong renewal methods.

The project is in cooperation with THUPDI, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Dàshílànr Platform. We have inspected the site and talked with local residents, government (neighborhood committees) and design institutes. Summarizing our previous research content and practical experience, we compile this handbook, and have shared our results with the public through flash mob activities, new media, videos, forums, etc., and after which, correct the handbook content based on the feedback.

We are looking forward to building a platform for joint development and a communication foundation between residents, tourists, government and professionals. The project is expected to be communicative and inspiring, so that more people would learn about the abundant and excellent possibilities of urban micro-regeneration projects.

Designed to be a laboratory for learning, the didactic garden is a sustainable space for teaching, research, and outreach in support of local food. Designed and built by students in a collaborative studio with landscape architecture students leading architecture and graphic design students, the garden highlights the best of what each discipline can contribute to a collective design process. The garden has a simple but thoughtful design that works with the existing site to create a series of rooms associated with four terrace levels. A central walk and stair tie the rooms together creating a central axis for service and accessibility. Numerous educational elements are incorporated into the garden including Farmbots, a classroom space, and educational graphics. Incorporating technologies typically reserved for larger applications, the garden minimizes potable water consumption and maximizes efficiency through an automated water recovery, collection, filtration, and distribution system. Overall, the garden is an innovative landscape that has serves as a model for what urban agriculture could become as it is intentionally integrated into communities.

Design is a political act and "no true transformative design occurs without confronting the status quo" (Hester, 2006). Through a democratic and accountable process, Constructed Efforts presents an alternative approach to design that directly engages disadvantaged communities in constructing small-scale projects to build long-term community capacity and resiliency.

This project focuses on neighborhoods in the Gateway Cities along the Lower Los Angeles River Corridor having denser industrial land-uses, lower median incomes, lower educational attainment, higher population density, more minority residents, and limited access to quality open spaces. The project engaged five different communities over a period of two years. Residents were leaders in all stages of the design-build process from site selection to construction. Project successes include five built projects, a neighborhood advocacy group, and a long-term plan under final design by a local landscape architecture firm. The process demonstrates that simple short-term low-budget projects are effective at engaging communities, empowering residents, and improving neighborhood quality of life. The methods are now being explored by local governmental committees for adoption in State planning processes.