Depave Chicago Media

Articles & Op-eds

“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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Retrotting 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

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

Research article on ground plane design

by McGuire in Landscape Journal. Issue 38:1-2, 2020. pp. 43-60.

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Points Lines 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.

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Cities as Hydro-Geologic Terrain: Design Research to Transform Urban Surfaces

Research paper on depaving and transforming imperviousness, research area is Chicago

McGuire

The Plan Journal, 2018.

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