Transforming the Southwestern Medical District for Health and Nature

SPOTLIGHT ON RESEARCH - Mixed Methods: An Innovative Approach to Complex Research Numbers, Stories, Satellite Images, and Journey Maps! It’s Mixed Methods Research, an innovative and empirically robust approach to data collection and analysis that is trending in health research. Check out what MMR is and how we will be using it in the SWMD project..... Read more.

Stay Connected In our efforts to expand engagement and stay connected, we've expanded to LinkedIn! If you are a current LinkedIn member, click below to find our new page There you’ll find educational content, shared best practices, and updates on the District’s transformation. Don’t forget to click the ‘Follow’ button! . Follow us on LinkedIn Trees are Changing the Front Lines of Urbanism Did you know the average street tree in Dallas only lives 18 years? Take a look back at history to learn how the adoption of single species tree-lined street evolved and how the Green Spine and Park projects will use vegetation differently to improve the symbiotic nature of the urban environment....Read More.

What are we reading... Each month we'll share some articles our team members enjoy reading, we think you'll enjoy them too!

Branching out: is communication possible between trees and people?  Why can’t we communicate with trees the same way we communicate with, say, elephants? Both live in social groups and look after not only their young but also their elders. Trees communicate through their interconnected root systems, and elephants communicate using low-frequency rumbling below the range at which we can hear.......Read more.

Unique Trees: 10+ Photos Of Incredibly Weird Trees From Around The World Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting and such trees are referred to in forestry as gemels, from the Latin word meaning “a pair".......Read more.

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