英文名称：America Improvement of urban public space

位置：美国

该项目位于美国芝加哥，处于Illinois州的东北部地区，也位于密西根湖西南岸。同样位于这里的芝加哥河流将这座城市一分为二，推进了该项目的建设。设计团队希望能够通过绿色空间的建设和可持续发展项目的推进使得芝加哥成为美国绿色景观发展的滋长地。

就像所说的那样，从景观发展的历史上来看，芝加哥的历史较为悠久，无论是景观艺术还有当地的特色食物，都是具有代表性的。但是在景观美化这一方面似乎有所欠缺。当下的公共环境需要继续改进，这不仅仅指的是当地的千禧公园和卢瑞花园。去年夏天的时候，文化景观基金会举办了一个为期两天的活动，人们可以尽其所能发现芝加哥最有历史价值的景观建筑。据悉，一共有25个公共景观可以让游客们参观。芝加哥是继纽约和洛杉矶后第三个最受欢迎的城市，因此该项目的发展备受瞩目。

Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, with the Chicago River cutting through downtown Chicago And so, that push for greater sustainable development and green space can be expected to prime Chicago as the next hotbed of innovative landscape architecture.

And you might say, it’s about time, since Chicago is better known as the city for architecture, art and food, while landscape architecture seems to take a back seat. Still, even if the current environment is more welcoming of urban parks, great landscape architecture does exist in the city–and I’m not just talking about Millennium Park and the Lurie Garden. Last summer, The Cultural Landscape Foundation led a two-day event called What’s Out There Weekend Chicago which explored Chicago’s most important historic works of landscape architecture (the list of the 25 publicly accessible sites can be found here).

美国城市公共空间的改造外部实景图