'Waterblogged' seems to be an appropriate title for the first project at hand: rerouting water at my home for the express purpose of preventing all that pesky flooding. I live in a traditional Chicago bungalow single-family style home. The house has some land around it on all sides though one side has a very thin strip of land, typical of urban living. This area seems to be the source of the water that floods the basement.
In dealing with this task, I've decided to do a complete overhaul of water handling on my lot. My hope is that by blogging about it I can share the trials, errors, lessons learned and design ideas that I encounter through this process.
I am a biologist and landscape architect by training and hope to continue this blog to include my other interests, urban food production and restored urban ecology.
About Me
- Anna E. Glenn
- Chicago, Illinois
- I am a landscape architect and biologist based in Chicago, Illinois. My work focuses on functional and productive cyclical systems - of any nature or scale - ornamental, native, garden, farm. By combining design and science, we create places of lasting importance, satisfying the historic treatise of "firmness, commodity, and delight". My interests include the design of educational spaces such as college campuses, elementary and grade schools, public spaces such as urban neighborhoods, multi-family community gardens, municipal farms and forests, and private spaces such as food-integrated urban gardens, orchards, and suburban homesteads. My current work includes design|build for home and community scale sustainability projects. I enjoy cross-learning from other fields and simultaneously study restoration ecology, ecological engineering, agro-ecology, urban planning, and international development.
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