ULI Northwest Arkansas 2024 Place Summit

November 20-21, 2024

The 2024 Place Summit theme, "Regional Connectivity: Distinct Communities, A Shared Future," aims to foster crucial conversations about preserving our beloved sense of place amid rapid growth in our region and neighboring communities. 

We will tackle the serious challenges and opportunities around Infrastructure, Housing, Transportation, Art, Sustainability and so much more. 

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India Basin: If the Big Five of Bayview Could See It Now, Part 2

March 10, 2024
Like their trailblazing predecessors, a new cadre of leaders won't rest until racial equality and economic justice deliver decent housing, education, job opportunities, and a healthy environment for this community.

India Basin: If the Big Five of Bayview Could See It Now, Part 1

Feburary 15, 2024
As India Basin Waterfront Park takes shape, Trust for Public Land is honoring the history and legacy of women who fought for justice here.

Queens’ 34th Avenue Shows What Open Streets Can Do For People

April 14, 2023
Op-Ed. “The 34th Avenue Open Street shows how urban roads can be repurposed to make a more livable city. Even more, it is an example of how communities must lead these efforts so that streets reflect a common vision for what communities care about.”

Terre Verde: Creating Resilient Cities

October 14, 2022
Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Alison Sant about the many pathways towards reinventing our cities to be regenerative and equitable.

The Atlantic Festival

September 21, 2022
Alison Sant participated in the panel, "The Possibility of a Sustainable Future: Combatting Climate Change" with Suzanne Lee (Biofabricate) and Seth Goldman (PLNT Burger), moderated by Atlantic Staff Writer Robinson Meyer. The conversation acknowledged that the stakes couldn’t be higher. Finding solutions to climate change so that people and nature can thrive together is the opportunity and challenge of the moment. The Atlantic assembled policymakers, climate innovators, scientists, and business leaders to address today’s most urgent climate challenges and solutions to build a more resilient future.

Smithsonian Earth Optimism X Folklife Festival

June 26, 2022
Livelihoods and Landscapes, a Panel discussion

ThreeSixtyCity Podcast Featuring Alison Sant

Feburary 23, 2022
Host Greg Lindsay interviews Alison Sant about her book From the Ground Up.

From the Ground Up

2022
Named one of the best books of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects and Planetizen

Pedal In!

September 17, 2017
Created for the opening of The Commons, a public gathering space at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Studio hosted a public bike ride featuring a series of talks focused on bicycling as a way of claiming public space from our city streets to our parklands.

Field Lab

October 2016
As Designers-In-Residence at the Exploratorium, the Studio for Urban Projects created a Field Lab along the San Francisco waterfront to examine the effects of sea-level rise in the San Francisco Bay. Over the course of a month, the Field Lab was a venue for public discussions, hands-on workshops, a research library, and film screenings.

Public Orchard

September 2010
An architectural pavilion and public park programmed with a series of talks, workshops, film screenings exploring food security, urban foodsheds, and public space created for the 01SJ Biennial.