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TRANSPORTATION Winter
in this issue
+ O’Hare International Airport –
A Flight Path to Sustainability (PAGE 1)
+ Planning for the Joy of the Journey (PAGE 4)
+ How Observation Informs Design (PAGE 12)
+ Toward the Bloomingdale Trail (PAGE 13)
+ Making the Case for
Landscape Architecture (PAGE 14)
2013
elevation
A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE ILLINOIS CHAPTER
American Society of Landscape Architects
www.il-asla.org
Susta
inable planting near O’Hare International Terminal 5
O’Hare International
Airport – A Flight
Path to Sustainability
By Dorothy Izewski // Chicago Department
of Aviation (CDA)
Rating Program. Based on the concepts
of LEED, this new program applied to
civil engineering and landscaping projects,
rewarding compliance with green airplane
certi
TRANSPORTATION
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news Chapter Events + Highlights This spring, be
Planning for the Joy of the Journey By Ferhat Zer
The “Mother Road”, Historic Route 66, follows a
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views Let’s be the solution in 2013! By Chris Lan
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Kentucky Coffee Tree, 4” Caliper Kentucky Coffee
partnership), county extension offices, arborists
and protects our streetscape from catastroph- ic
Making the Case for Landscape Architecture By Ter
New parks will be access points to the Bloomingda
A Flight Path to Sustainability [continued from p
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