It's official! The University of Pennsylvania's Shoemaker Green has just received a 2014 ASLA Honor Award in the General Design Category. The project has transformed an underused corner of the campus into a high-performance, public amenity. It has proved that small urban spaces can contribute significantly to stormwater management, that native ecosystems can provide comparable benefits in the urban environment, and that necessary environmental and social monitoring can be done with minimal cost and effort. Shoemaker Green has become what green infrastructure seldom is: a monitored, high-performance landscape that provides timely feedback on what is working and what isn’t (photographs by Barrett Doherty). Click here for more information on this project .