Publications

Edited Volumes

Tamminga, K., guest editor. 2023–24. The Landscape of Sustainable Cities: Emerging Futures, Architecture special issue, vols. 3(4) and 4(1).

Tamminga, K. and T. Knüvener, guest editors. 2018–21. Sustainable | Sustaining City Streets, Sustainability special issue, vols. 11(7, 8, 15, 17, 21, 22), 12(9, 13, 22-24), 13(1) and 13(4).

Tamminga, K., guest editor. 2012–2018. Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, special issue, Sustainability, vols. 4(4-9), 7(12), 8(3), 10(4).

Tamminga, K., D. van Engelsdorp, and A. Smith, editors. 2012. Nearby Nature II, GigaPan Magazine, vol. 4(2), Carnegie Mellon University.

Smith, A., K. Tamminga, and D. van Engelsdorp, editors. 2011. Nearby Nature I, GigaPan Magazine, vol. 3(6), Carnegie Mellon University.

Parts of Books

Tamminga, K. and T. Knüvener. 2021. Editorial: On sustainable and sustaining city streets. Sustainable | Sustaining City Streets. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 1–4. ISBN 978-3036509341.

Tan, S. and K. Tamminga. 2021. A vision for urban micromobility: From current streetscape to the city of the future. Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems, E.G. Nathanail et al., eds. Switzerland: Springer Nature, vol. 1278:158–167. ISBN 978-3030610746.

Hodge, G., D. Gordon, and P. Shaw. 2021. K. Tamminga, corresponding author for Don River Valley Rehabilitation Strategy, City of Toronto. Planning Canadian Communities. 7th edn. Toronto: Top Hat. ISBN 978-0176073794.

Tamminga, K. 2008. Restoring biodiversity in the urbanizing region. Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking Theory and Practice. J. Grant, ed. Toronto: Thomson Nelson Canada, 243–251. ISBN 978-0176103576.

Tamminga, K. 2007. Changing nature: towards a civic culture of urban ecosystems regeneration. Águas Urbanas: Uma Contribuição para a Regeneração Ambiental como Campo Disciplinar Integrado. V. Tangari, M. Bahia Schlee, R. Andrade, and M. Dias, eds. Rio de Janeiro: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-FAU, 147–161. ISBN 978-8588341104.

Schlee, M., D. Baptista, and K. Tamminga. 2007. Diagnóstico ambiental participativo em bacias hidrográficas urbanas. [Participatory environmental analysis of an urban river basin.]. Águas Urbanas: Uma Contribuição para a Regeneração Ambiental como Campo Disciplinar Integrado. V. Tangari et al., eds. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 215–235. ISBN 978-8588341104.

Tamminga, K. 2006. Disturbance zones. Planning and Urban Design Standards. American Planning Association. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 141–142. ISBN 978-0471475811. 

Tamminga, K. 2006. Invasive species. Planning and Urban Design Standards. American Planning Association. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 145–147. ISBN 978-0471475811. 

Honwad, S., C. Hoadley, and K. Tamminga. 2006. Building a learning community for Himalayan sustainability. Global Change in Mountain Regions. M. Price, ed. Duncow, UK: Sapiens Publishing, 326–328. ISBN 978-1402035067.

Schlee, M., A. Coelho Netto, and K. Tamminga. 2006. Mapeamento ambiental e paisagístico de bacias hidrográficas urbanas: Estudo de caso do Rio Carioca. [Environmental and landscape mapping of an urban river basin: Case study of the Carioca River.] Rios e Paisagens Urbanas em Cidades Brasileiras. L. M. Costa, ed., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 33–55. ISBN 8588721384.

Tamminga, K., L. Mozingo, D. Erickson, and J. Harrington. 2002. Interweaving ecology in planning and design curricula. Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning. B. Johnson and K. Hill, eds. Washington, DC: Island Press, 357–395. ISBN 978-1559638135.

Hood, W., K. Tamminga, R. Bingham, A. Otten, and F. Pasqual. 1999. Hunter Park. Re-evaluating stormwater: The Nine Mile Run model for restorative development. B. Ferguson et al., eds., Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 8–11.

Luymes, D. and K. Tamminga. 1996. Integrating public safety and use into planning urban greenways. Greenways: The Beginning of an International Movement. J. G. Fabos and J. Ahern, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, 391–400. ISBN 978-0444824646.

Articles in Journals & Proceedings

Kriehn, E., K. Tamminga, and T. Flohr. 2023. Spatial indices for convivial greenstreets. Sustainability 15(24): 16781.

Zhang, Y., K. Tamminga, and H. Wu. 2022. Interweaving computational and tacit knowledges to design nature-based play networks in underserved communities. Land 11(3): 350.

Flohr, T., T. Johnson, and K. Tamminga. 2021. Virtual Studio 1.0: A virtual tacit-forward learning management framework, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture  6: 476–486.

Tamminga, K., J. Cortesão, and M. Bakx. 2020. Convivial greenstreets: A concept for climate-responsive urban design. Sustainability 12(9): 3790.

Tamminga, K. 2019. Designing with: An engaged studio approach to applied community development scholarship. Practice Insights 12: 40–42.

Tamminga, K. 2017. Green infrastructure in liminal streetside spaces: Cases from European city cores. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Association of European Schools of Planning Congress, 1128–1137.

Nagle, L., S. Echols, and K. Tamminga. 2017. Food production on a living wall: A pilot study. Journal of Green Building 12(3): 23–38.

Tamminga, K. 2014. Convivial greenstreets as force and context for urban sustainability. Proceedings of the 4th World Sustainability Forum / SciForum 4: 1–21.

Honwad, S., O. Sypher, C. Hoadley, A. Lewis, K. Tamminga, and R. Honey. 2014. Education for sustainability and resilience in a changing climate. International Conference of Learning Sciences 3: 1466–1473.

Tschakert, P., K. Dietrich, K. Tamminga, E. Prins, J. Shaffer, E. Liwenga, and A. Asiedu. 2014. Learning and envisioning under climatic uncertainty: An African experience. Environment and Planning A 46(5): 1049–1067.

Tamminga, K., and D. De Ciantis. 2012. Resilience, conviviality and the engaged studio. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 16(3): 115–151.

Schlee, M., K. Tamminga, and V. Tangari. 2012. A method for gauging landscape change as a prelude to urban watershed regeneration: The case of the Carioca River, Rio de Janiero. Sustainability 4(9): 2054–2098.

Das, P., and K. Tamminga. 2012. The Ganges and the GAP: An assessment of efforts to clean a sacred river. Sustainability 4(8): 1647–1668.

Tamminga, K., R. Stehouwer, and P. Drohan. 2010. Exploring the excited skin: Gigapixel imaging of soil profiles and landscape contexts. Proceedings of the Fine International Conf. on Gigapixel Imaging for Science. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 1–7.

Hoadley, C., S. Honwad, and K. Tamminga. 2010. Technology- supported cross-cultural collaborative learning in the developing world. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration. Copenhagen, Denmark: ACM Digital Library 3: 131–140.

Schlee, M., N. Cavalcanti, and K. Tamminga. 2007. As transformações da paisagem na bacia do Rio Carioca. [Landscape transformation in the Carioca River basin.] Paisagem & Ambiente. University of São Paulo, 267–284. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2359-5361.v0i24.

Tamminga, K. 2004. Ecological restoration education and emerging trends in public scholarship. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Society for Restoration International Conference. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, 40.1–40.10.

Gordon, D. and K. Tamminga. 2002. Large-scale traditional neighborhood development and pre-emptive ecosystem planning: the Markham Experience, 1989–2001. Journal of Urban Design 7(3): 321–340.

Tamminga, K. 2001. Book review of Site Analysis: Linking Program and Concept in Land Planning and Design. Journal of Architectural Engineering 7(3): 94–95.

Tamminga, K. 2000. Watersheds as a context and focus of integrated graduate training. Plan Canada 40(5): 35.

Sherwin, L. and K. Tamminga. 2000. Keystone projects: Service-learning practica in watershed stewardship. Water Resources Update 119: 27–41.

Tamminga, K. 1999. Hope for the hyperstressed: Regenerating Pittsburgh’s post-industrial ecosystems. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Ecosystems Restoration and Creation, 80–95.

Tamminga, K. 1999. Synecologies, greenway planning and the pursuit of synergies. Proceedings of the Sixth and Seventh Biennial Linear Parks Conference, Virginia Polytechnical University. Appalachian Consortium Press, 50–68.

Tamminga, K. 1997. Restoration planning in the urbanizing (bio)region: Ecological themes and regional imperatives. Opportunities in Sustainable Development: Strategies for the Chesapeake Basin, M. Hill, ed., American Society of Landscape Architects, 67–75.

Tamminga, K. 1997. Theoretical models for greenway: are greenways a new idea? Ample Opportunity – A Community Dialogue. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 199–202.

Tamminga, K. 1996. Restoring biodiversity in the urbanizing region: Towards pre-emptive ecosystems planning. Plan Canada 36(4): 10–15.

Tamminga, K. 1996. Ecology and placemaking: Towards an enriched urban design theory. Designing (In) The Democratic City: Proceedings of the 1996 American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference. Hampton University, accepted, 1–7.

Luymes, D., D. Nadenicek, and K. Tamminga. 1995. Across the Great Divide: Landscape architecture, ecology and the city. Renewing the American City: Proceedings of the 1995 Conference of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 187–196.

Tamminga, K. 1995. Urban place and placelessness. Urban Forestry News 3(3): 3.

Tamminga, K. 1995. Is the ‘living filter’ sustainable? Assessing the spray irrigation of municipal effluent. The Environmental Professional 17(4): 290–300.

Select Reports to Sponsors

Tamminga, K., C. A. Cole, T. Yahner, S. Rothman, D. Meehan, L. Rummler, C. Bichon, A. Carter, T. Gould, R. Levitt, Y. Ma, A. McGraw, and S. Parkhill. 2018. MG2V – Musser Gap to Valleylands. A report on biophysical and human components of a tract of Penn State property. Penn State University, 71 pp.

Sam, A., N. Kerlin, K. Tamminga et al. 2016. Master Tree Plan 2016: An Urban Forestry Strategy for Effective Management in a Tree City. Borough of State College, 87 pp.

Tamminga, K. and M. Hogan. 2015. Collaborative Community Design in Underserved Neighborhoods. Post-conference report to the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, 10 pp.

Wagner, R., C. A. Cole, M. Brittingham, C. Ferreri, L. Gorenflo, M. Kaye, B. Orland, and K. Tamminga. 2014. Morristown National Historical Park Natural Resource Condition Assessment. Natural Resource Report NPS/NERO/NRR-2014/869, 219 pp.

Wagner, R., C.A. Cole, M. Brittingham, C. Ferreri, L. Gorenflo, M. Kaye, B. Orland, and K. Tamminga. 2014. Saratoga National Historical Park Natural Resource Condition Assessment. Natural Resource Report NPS/NETN/NRR-2014/751, 240 pp.

ALCCAR core team. 2012. Learning, Planning and Adapting to Climate Change: A Guide for Facilitators. Penn State University, 225 pp.

Cole, C.A., R. Wagner, M. Brittingham, C. Ferreri, L. Gorenflo, M. Kaye, B. Orland, and K. Tamminga. 2012. Natural Resource Condition Assessment for the Roosevelt- Vanderbilt National Historic Sites. Natural Resource Report NPS/NER/NRR 2012/557, 236 pp.

Tamminga, K. 2008. PPG Lime Lakes phytoremediation project: Upland grassland trials and bioremediation for ultra-high pH brownfields, with Key Environmental. PPG Industries, Akron, Ohio, 12 pp., appendices.

Yahner, T. and K. Tamminga, eds. 2004. Endless Mountains Riverway Study. Endless Mountains Heritage Region. Penn State Press, 77 pp.

Seigel, M., K. Tamminga, R. Becker, and R. Burkholder. 2004. Tensions of change: Writing and making the American landscape – A retrospective. College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University, 24 pp.

Center for Watershed Stewardship and K. Tamminga. 2002. Nescopeck Creek Watershed Stewardship Report. Friends of Nescopeck. Penn State University, 148 pp.

Center for Watershed Stewardship and K. Tamminga. 2002. The Jacobs Creek Keystone Project. Jacobs Creek Watershed Association. Penn State University, 135 pp.

Tamminga, K. 2001. Keystone Projects in the CIty: Towards Graduate-level Stewardship Training in Pennsylvania's Urban Watersheds. Center for Watershed Stewardship. Penn State University, 51 pp.

Center for Watershed Stewardship and K. Tamminga. 2000. Maiden Creek Watershed Keystone Project. Berks County Conservancy. Penn State University, 114 pp.

Stehouwer, R. and K. Tamminga. 2001. Curriculum restructuring: Environmental technology training program. Invited assessment of EPA Region 3 and Bucks County Community College’s Brownfield Training Curriculum pilot, 15 pp.

Collins, T., D. Dzombak, J. Rawlins, K. Tamminga, and S. Thompson. 1999.  Pittsburgh's Nine Mile Run Watershed: River Conservation Plan. Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, 372 pp.

Brooks, R., K. Tamminga, C. Lipton, and R. Carline. 1998. Protection and management plan for the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center. ClearWater Conservancy and PA DCNR. Penn State Cooperative Wetland Center Report No. 98-2, 95 pp.

Tamminga, K. and C. Woodland. 1994. Rouge Park Management Plan.  Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Queen’s Printers for Ontario, 95 pp.

Stansbury, J. and K. Tamminga. 1993. Massasauga Provincial Park Management Plan. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Queen’s Printers for Ontario, 32 pp.

Hough, M, D. Luymes, and K. Tamminga (primary authors). 1992. Healing an urban watershed: The story of the Don. Regeneration: Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City. Toronto: Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront, pp. 226-258.

Hough, M., K. Tamminga, R. Newbury, and D. Gordon. 1991. Bringing Back the Don. The Task Force to Bring Back the Don. City of Toronto, 79 pp.