This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by registered architect and landscape architect, Susannah Drake of dlandstudio. Curtis and Susannah are discussing eco-friendly urban landscaping, and what landscape architecture can mean for New York City's protection from future storms like Hurricane Sandy. Hear about sanitation issues that come with storm surges, and how innovations like sponge parks can deal with rising tides and currents. Where and how are architects building to compensate for the increasing number of tropical storms in the New York metro area? Later, Curtis and Susannah talk about the intersection of landscape design and architecture, and where one ends and the next begins. This episode has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.

"I think that a lot of our cities were set up on waterways to facilitate exchange. Going back to (dlandstudio's) MoMA project, we analyzed the coastline and the ways it has expanded to facilitate exchange... Now we don't have the same systems of exchange where we're translating goods at the water's edge- in part due to containerized shipping." [17:55]

-- Susannah Drake on Burning Down the House

This week on We Dig Plants gets down and dirty with the Gowanus Canal. Joined by Jeff Hutchinson and Erikof the Gowanus Canal Conservancy hosts Alice Marcus-Krieg and Carmen DeVito talk about what the Conservancy is doing to follow their mission to be a "steward for the preservation, restoration and green development of the Gowanus Canal and its environs for the greater good of the community", from their compost project to volunteerism. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.

Dylan Thuras joins Grace Bonney in the studio for this week's installment of After the Jump! Dylan is the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, a website dedicated to all things esoteric and unique in travel. Tune into this episode to hear Dylan and Grace talk about the idea of discovery in the age of the Internet, and what is really left to be discovered. Dylan talks about some of his concerns about publicizing some of these hidden gems, and how he has confronted this issue. How has Atlas Obscura affected the communities and areas that it spotlights? Hear about some of Dylan's revelations that induced his love for traveling. Where would Dylan take some Atlas Obscura users in Brooklyn? Find out on this week's episode of After the Jump! This program has been brought to you by Clarkson Potter Publishers.

"A lot of times, I'm talking about some exotic, crazy places, but there's a place a mile from you- where ever you are. There's some amazing thing quite close." [7:25]

"The whole point of the Atlas is that it's not just about these crazy far away places... it's about digging deep, knowing the context, and realizing that there's discovery to be made all around you." [13:20]

-- Dylan Thuras on After the Jump