Depave Chicago Media

Talks & Interviews

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WBEZ Chicago - “Chicago was drenched this past weekend and many Chicagoans are dealing with flooded basements and water damage,” Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons, Environment & Public Health. 9/21/2022 (28:41-35:53)

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Mike Nowak Show - Mary Pat McGuire (Depave Chicago) & Katya Reyna (Depave, Portland) interviewed on the Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki, 6/12/2022 (the segment starts at 17:31)

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Friends of the Parks - Mary Pat McGuire shares “DEPAVE CHICAGO: A Design Approach and Program to Renature Paved Ground in Communities” in the NETSCH re:design lecture series with Friends of the Parks, 8/9/2022

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Mike Nowak PROMO - Mike Nowak says it best...UNPAVE 50%!....Promo video with Mary Pat McGuire (Depave Chicago) & Katya Reyna (Depave, Portland), 5/2022

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What We Can Do To Depave Cities - Podcast Interview, McGuire with Jeff Wood of Streetsblog USA Talking Heads Podcast. 9/30/2021

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21st Century Design - Design Disrupted - Interview with McGuire on remaking infrastructure for water, flooding, and cities through urban surface redesign, University of Illinois, Department of Landscape Architecture, 2018.

Media Coverage by Others

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Discover Magazine “Sherriff, Lucy. “Cities are Depaving for a Cooler Future,” Discover Magazine, 9/72023

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The Nation “Sherriff, Lucy. “A cooler future means a world with less pavement,” The Nation, 8/31/2023

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Axios Chicago “Combating Climate Issues Through Depaving,” by Monica Eng, September 20, 2022

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Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023 - Depave Chicago and The Montessori School of Englewood are selected for CAB 2023 “This is a Rehearsal.”

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Bike Portland - “Depave and an army of volunteers brings city spaces to life,” by Paxton Rothwell, July 29, 2022. McGuire trained to depave in July 2022.

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Planetizen “To Make Cities More Liveable, Get Rid of Pavement,” by Dianan Ionescu, July 20, 2021

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Chicago Magazine “’What Chicago is Doing—and Can Do—to Prevent a Disastrous Flood,’ article by Whet Moser in Chicago Magazine, Aug 30 2017

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Architects Newspaper “’Chicago digs deep to fight flooding, but the city’s geology may provide another solution,’ article by Zach Edelson in Architect’s Newspaper (Online edition), October 24, 2016

Articles & Op-eds by Us

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Depaving for Sequestration - “Depaving for Sequestration, a scalable story of one site,” Decarbonize Design, special issue, Landscape Paysage, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Fall 2024

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Retrofitting Urban Land - Research article on soils-based GSI design in the Chicago-Calumet Region, published in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. November 18, 2021

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Let’s Not Overlook Pavement - Op-Ed by Mary Pat McGuire on the severe impacts of pavement on the health of land, water, and people gives us a new way of thinking - depaving, in Next City, July 7, 2021

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Embracing Rainwater Through Green Infrastructure - Op-Ed by Mary Par McGuire on addressing climate change through green infrastructure by redesigning of the ground beneath our feet, in Environmental Health News, July 9, 2021

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Surface Design Operations in Landscape Architecture - Research article on ground plane design, by McGuire in Landscape Journal. Issue 38:1-2, 2020. pp. 43-60.

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Cities as Hydrogeological Terrain: Design Research to Transform Urban Surfaces - Research paper on depaving and transforming imperviousness, research area is Chicago, by McGuire, in The Plan Journal, 2018.

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Depave Chicago: Points, Lines, and Planes - Chapter by McGuire on why subtraction is a worthy but less expected design adaptation strategy, published in Fresh Water: Design for Inland Water Territories, (Applied Research & Design) in 2019.