Landscape Architecture Magazine Vol. 102 N°8 (2012)

LAM

10 Land matters

14 Letters

Foreground

24 Now
The inexplicably inane struggles (against adults) to allow children to ride their bikes to school; the high rise death rays that endanger the Nasher Sculputre Center in Dallas; ASLA honors for Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, FASLA, among others; spatial engineering for the American chestnut´s return; and more.
Edited by Linda McIntyre

42 Species
In coffee plants, caffeine has a real purpose unrelated to your need for speed; also, the mystery of Max Frei, of geranium fame, solved at last!
By Constance Casey

50 Econ

Limbo Land
Last year, Governor Jerry Brown of California killed the state’s community redevelopment agencies to lower a big budget deficit, and funding instantly vanished for numerous public landscape proyects. Some are dead for good, but others may yet survive.
By Lisa Owens Viani

60 Palette

As in Nature
In the first installment of a new section about planting design, Susan Van Atta, FASLA, shows how she uses her favorite native plants. That´s not to say that native means easy.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA

76 Goods

Look It Up
When it comes to bicycle racks, there is life beyond the hairpin.
By Lisa Speckhardt

Features

80 The inventions of reed hilderbrand
The firm of Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand took ASLA Honor Awards in 2011 for three very different designs. In conversation, they describe their work in the simplest terms: Order. Clarity.
An Interview by William S. Saunders

90 Oaks on granite
A canopy of two dozen large trees on a tiny plaza near Boston’s Central Wharf holds the secrets to its existence well underground
By Daniel Jost, ASLA

98 Amazing Trace
In the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, a boarwalk called the Half Mile Line takes you through parts of a marsh not seen, and therefore not know, from the water’s edge

110 Soul transplant
Philip Johnson seems to have had exactly one idea about landscape. To the renovation of a 1960s house he designed in suburban Dallas, Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, has brought a few others, and they are a good deal more subtle
By Mark Lamster

The Back

124 The Big, Spooky (Utterly Meaningless)
Agenda 21
How a plantidinous 20 year old United Nations declaration about sustainability suddenly became the next political vampire that will rob you of privacy, propery, and everything else you cherish
By Linda McIntyre

132 Books

Beyond Visual Tourism
By Frank Edgerton Martin

156 Display and index

157 Buyer´s Guide Index

168 Forward

Answers for Autism
There may be relief in the outdoors for one of the most baffling disorders among children today
By Charles Colvin, ASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 28 de agosto de 2012 - 09:11 | Actualizado: 28 de agosto de 2012 - 09:11 | PDF