About

Carey Clouse is a professor of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches courses that address the overlap between social justice, environmental stewardship, and urbanism, focusing on integrating these critical issues within design and planning education. His work emphasizes the importance of addressing social and environmental concerns through landscape and urban design practices, contributing to the academic discourse on sustainable and equitable urban development.

Research topics

• Archaeology
• Engineering
• Environmental planning
• Political Science
• Environmental resource management
• Geography
• Computer Science
• Ecology
• Biology
• Economics
• Environmental ethics
• Environmental science
• Architectural engineering
• Business

Selected publications

• Making Space for Community

  Landscape Journal · 2025-11-01

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  <h3>Abstract</h3> Hardcourt bike polo has become an increasingly popular sport in the United States in the past two decades, highlighting opportunities for new spatial responses in landscape architecture and planning. However, the appropriation of informal spaces for bike polo recreation suggests that many public parks are ill‐equipped to manage this land use. This article shares a case study highlighting a bike polo club in Eugene, Oregon, using interviews with players, fans, and design experts to identify opportunities and challenges for hardcourt bike polo design. The results of this study point to a series of recommendations for more integrative professional design services, with a focus on a relatively affordable and accessible palette of design interventions that could be adopted to facilitate emergent communitarian recreation activities on public hardcourt surfaces. The article makes the case that although alternative park activities remain underrepresented in landscape architecture practice, their examination offers inroads to more diverse programming in public spaces.

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• Flexible recreation: changing perceptions in pandemic-era public park use

  Journal of Urban Design · 2025-06-03 · 1 citations

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• Street Trees

  2025-01-01

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• Building Up Water Artificial Glaciers in Ladakh

  2024-07-01 · 1 citations

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  Design Project Data Location Ladakh | North India | Asia Project Team Leh Nutrition Project | Ice Stupa Team Date 1980 | present Coordinates 34° 7’ 27.48” | 77° 28’ 0.804” Area n.a. Length n.a. Investment n.a. Artificial Glaciers A map traces the artificial glaciers and is indicated by a vertical line. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="black-white" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003356486/a2d141df-52cf-4779-81f0-f700c1746673/content/fig10_200_1_B.tif"/>

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• Tethering Buddhism to Climate Change

  2023-05-12

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  In this chapter about the ice stupas of Ladakh, we explore the gains that can be made when environmental advocacy projects become tethered to religious ideals. The ice stupa is a relatively straightforward engineering strategy used by farmers to stockpile winter meltwater for crop irrigation the following spring in north India. As such, it could serve agricultural goals without being branded as a stupa, or specifically designed for Buddhists in Ladakh. However, because it has been co-opted as a Buddhist structure, it has become far more visible, accessible, and even celebrated as a landscape feature. Since 2014, ice stupas have become sacred objects in Ladakh, venerated, protected, and reproduced, as much for their religious value as for their drought mitigation. The intentional overlay of Buddhist symbolism has linked religious values with environmental interests, in compelling and productive ways. Designers might learn from this framing, as unconventional and even radical climate-adaptive design projects can be made to resonate with communities by making connections to social, cultural, and religious contexts.

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• Cuba’s Informal Gardens: Situating State Support and Public Participation

  2022-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Glacier blanketing: Two approaches in the European Alps

  Journal of Landscape Architecture · 2022-09-02 · 1 citations

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• The resurgence of urban foraging under COVID-19

  Landscape Research · 2022 · 19 citations

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  • Geography
  • Environmental planning
  • Business

  The COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks in American food security, as global supply chains seised, movement within cities and regions halted, and restaurant access diminished. During this time, new interest in local food provisioning surfaced in the US, highlighting the value of productive agriculture within urban landscapes. In many areas, this urban food provisioning expanded to include foraging, the practice of acquiring food products from edible landscapes for free. This paper charts the resurgence of urban foraging during the pandemic, frames this activity within theory on do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism and the right to the city, and makes planning and design recommendations for bolstering this trend in the future. While urban foraging has historically been characterised by bottom-up participation, the addition of top-down organisational frameworks and legal structures could reinforce this practice in North America, helping to promote local food security, particularly during periods of crisis.

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• Yestermorrow/UMass Design+Build Semester: A Decade of Work

  2021-01-01

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  A decade ago, the architecture department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst partnered with the Yestermorrow Design Build School to envision and create a study-away design/build semester experience. This program has flourished since then, and the tenth anniversary year provides a logical moment for celebration and reflection. This presentation showcases the work of the past decade, and highlights the ways in which novel goals and aspirations underpin this particular collaboration.

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• Reservoirs and canals

  2020-08-19

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Frequent coauthors

• Stephen Schreiber

  2 shared

• Zachary Lamb

  2 shared

• Caryn Brause

  1 shared

• Alpa Nawre

  University of Florida

  1 shared

• Timothy A. Schuler

  1 shared

• Taylor Shippling

  University of Pittsburgh

  1 shared

• N. Anderson

  Northwestern University

  1 shared

Labs

• Landscape Architecture and Regional PlanningPI