Mary Pat McGuire

@MaryPatMcGuire

Landscape architect; Assoc prof FAA/UIUC; Water Lab; fresh water; Depave Chicago: Floating Woman

Illinois, USA
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Joined October 2017
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  1. 29 Dec 2021

    Warning landscape architects+ all of our design fields risk exploiting this situation. Be mindful of who you serve and how.

    "We're for the jobs the comet will bring"
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  2. 27 Dec 2021

    Brilliant conversation about the extended mind existing, living, and learning in our bodies and the importance of movement to our thinking. Exciting implications for our workspaces and classrooms.

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  3. 22 Dec 2021

    🙏🏽follow each other, love one another.

    Replying to @MaryPatMcGuire
    If you value climate action and you're not following , you are missing out!
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  4. 22 Dec 2021

    To go deeper on water in Chicago, read Sinking Chicago by Harold Platt. 🤯

    Replying to @elianabrown5 @LHLogan1 @MaryPatMcGuire
    Nature’s Metropolis is excellent.
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  5. 22 Dec 2021

    coastal cities!

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  6. 22 Dec 2021

    Insight 🙌 Look at local tree ordinances or stormwater capture ordinances…the world is in the details.

    The most meaningful climate policy is local policies that are not on their face climate policy.
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  7. 15 Dec 2021

    This is our neighborhood in Chicago.

    Just gonna retweet this every day
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  8. 8 Dec 2021

    Floating Woman here feeling this vibe….

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    New levels of chillin
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    24 Nov 2021

    Congratulations to Elizabeth J Kennedy FASLA and Glenn LaRue Smith FASLA who are the newest ASLA Fellows. Pictured below (left to right): Karen A. Phillips FASLA, Glenn LaRue Smith FASLA, Elizabeth Kennedy FASLA, Kona Gray FASLA, Diane Jones Allen FASLA.

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  10. 23 Nov 2021

    The Condition of Land in Chicago. Economized through an upside down value system.

    Chicago transportation study report from the 1960s. don't let anyone tell you nobody knew better than to rip apart our cities for the sake of cars, even as it was happening.
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  11. 20 Nov 2021

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    A most beautiful thing: an artist in France fills holes in sidewalks with mosaics. He is known as the "paving surgeon" and has been "treating the wounds of urban streets since 2016."
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    19 Nov 2021

    And there was never a fucking doubt that this would be the outcome. All eyes on Georgia.

    BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted on all charges in shooting that killed two people and injured a third.
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    15 Nov 2021

    The entire basis of the premise of this account that we can rapidly build soil is found it on the notion that we can organize our design decisions based on logical responses to topography. This method can shape our towns farms forests so that they rapidly sequester carbon

    there really is only one system that can handle & respond to this and that is coastal temperate rainforests. They hold onto soil, collect moisture & rain (on the surface of their canopy, in their trunks & in the soil. They are now almost completely cut down. Time to get planting1
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    10 Nov 2021

    A giant 800 year old cedar tree in Japan. A beautiful vision to head off to sleep and dream world with

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  15. Retweeted
    6 Nov 2021

    If we want change we have to literally transform the places where we live, our communities, our groups of friends and colleagues. We need to literally increase photosynthesis and soil production and build the culture that makes that possible. Then there is strength and power

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  16. 6 Nov 2021

    Evidence to convert curbside parking lanes to other uses, like planting trees, is growing irrefutable. In Chicago, we could retrofit for stormwater block by block. - “The hidden climate costs of America’s free parking spaces | The Guardian”

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    3 Nov 2021

    New highways and road expansions may be slowing down in many parts of the world but the ever expanding geography of car infrastructure in the emerging EV era is only becoming more consumptive of the earth's surface

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    26 Oct 2021

    There's definitely a real connection here, as pavement runoff can be a cause of flooding and a source of toxicity, while big parking lots keep cars at the center of our public infrastructure

    Cannot say enough about this damaging, inverse relationship between rain and pavement. We definitely don’t need any more planet and lung killing asphalt. Instead we need a better relationship with rain as a nourishing element.
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  19. 26 Oct 2021

    Cannot say enough about this damaging, inverse relationship between rain and pavement. We definitely don’t need any more planet and lung killing asphalt. Instead we need a better relationship with rain as a nourishing element.

    The rain stopped and the asphalt started.
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    24 Oct 2021

    Is a Parking Lot More Valuable Than a Prairie?

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