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