Today in Fast Company, Nate Berg writes about SCAPE and Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s Gowanus Lowlands Plan and the ongoing evolution of the Gowanus Canal from an industrial canal to a new civic landscape. "Two recently opened projects exemplify the transformation underway along the Gowanus Canal,” Berg writes. “Both designed by the landscape architecture firm SCAPE and in line with a master plan it helped release in 2019, the projects are a preview of what it will look like when the Gowanus completes one of the most dramatic urban turnarounds in recent times."

The Lowlands plan, he writes, "set standards for how future development along the canal could contribute to its cleanup and restoration... Now, it is being used to help shape more than a dozen active development projects along the canal."

Read the full article here.