Depave Chicago Media
Articles & Op-eds
“Depaving for Sequestration,
a scalable story of one site,”
by Mary Pat McGuire & Vidhan Goel
Special Issue of Landscape Paysage “Decarbonize Design,” Matt Williams and Karen May, editors.
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Fall 2024
Retrotting Urban Land
Research on soils-based Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) design in the Chicago-Calumet Region.
by Mary Pat McGuire, et al. in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (ERIS). (1) 2021.
Let’s Not Overlook Pavement
by Mary Pat McGuire on the need to shift focus toward depaving cities.
in Next City, July 7, 2021
Embracing Rainwater
by Mary Pat McGuire on depaving for community health.
in Environmental Health News, July 9, 2021
Surface Design Operations
Design research that categorizes 25 landscape projects into 5 strategies for designing the ground plane leading to multiple environmental and aesthetic effects.
by Mary Pat McGuire in Landscape Journal. Issue 38:1-2, 2020. pp. 43-60.
Points Lines Planes: Depave Chicago
Book chapter by Mary Pat McGuire that walks through the logic of understanding and intervening in the surface our cities for integrative rainwater design.
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 the fascinating geological conditions of the city of Chicago, and how we can tie depaving and retrofitting strategies to those soils.
by Mary Pat McGuire
The Plan Journal, Issue 1, Volume 3, 2018.