Involve children in workplace. Increase in flextime and job sharing. Finding ways to spend less time at work and more time with the family. Integrating personal time with work time through the use of virtual or home offices. In honor of the society's 100th anniversary, ASLA is helping to revitalize American neighborhoods, beautify community gathering places and showcase the skills of landscape architects at 100 sites across the country.
Projects range from inner-city parks, community gathering places and civic gardens.
As landscape architects, we have an ethical calling through land planning and design to make this world a better place and we realize that the best start for this is when the self-esteem of our youth is nurtured and grown in an environment that is clean, beautiful and filled with grace. This planned open space inspired a parks movement that swept the country. Olmstead began tracking the value of real estate surrounding Central Park when the park was only half completed. He also charted the average increase in property value in the three wards surrounding the park and the city's other wards. The economic value of parks, open space and proper land planning can be readily measured.