Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°6 (2013)

LAM

10 Land Matters

12 Letters

Foreground

18 Now
The ghostly excavations of Elisabeth Chan; Shauna Gillies-Smith, on her own, moves farther still from her economics degree, a study says the broken windows theory is hooey; the quest is on for virtual public feedback in cities, and more.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

30 Species
Red foxes are lovers of cities and their diverse offerings, even in cities don’t love them back; plus, the paradoxical sight and smell of Rosa rugosa on beaches all over.
By Constance Casey

36 Nursery

Sold Out
When the recession hit, and plants stopped selling, some nurseries suspended planting. Now you may find a shortage of certain plants for the next few years, so plan ahead.
By Anne Raver

46 Workstation

Almost Like the Movies
Creating 3-D animations for project presentations can seem like more hassle than it’s worth. Lumion offers a set of tools that can make the job much faster and easier.
By Daniel Tal, ASLA

54 Palette

Desert Campaign
Steve Martino, FASLA, has fought for decades against a perception that the Arizona desert is a wasteland and that its marvelous plants are “useless vermin”.
His gardens are his proof.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA

64 Goods

Social Climbers
Bike, slide, splash, skate, scream.
By Lisa Speckhardt

Features

74 Welcome to Frackville
A trip through the Marcellus Shale region in West Virginia and Pennsylvania turns up the dread and lust in the craze for natural gas.
By Kim Sorvig

92 Dubai’s Green Side
Amid the city’s staggering development, an expanded park system is coming into the balance. Sally Ibrahim Saad, the lead landscape architect of Dubai Municipality, explains the approach.
Interview by Hala Nassar

98 The Crossing
At some point, just about everybody in the Twin Cities drove aver the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in 2007, an event memorialized in a garden by Tom Oslund, FASLA
By Camille Lefevre.

The Back

108 Slow Forces
The artist Giuseppe Penone’s awe of nature
By Bradford Mckee

114 The designer becomes the patient
At the end of a landscape architecture degree program, a student in cancer treatment learned the hazards of a garden meant to help healing
By Kevan Busa

120 Books

The Rest of the Story
A review of Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice, edited by Louise A. Mozingo, ASLA, and Linda Jewel, FASLA.
By Mara Miller

152 Display ad index

153 Buyer´s Guide Index

164 Backstory

Trees Through the Lens
How the photographer Benjamin Sweet became obsessed with shooting New York City trees.
By Amanda Kolson Hurley

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 4 de julio de 2013 - 08:32 | Actualizado: 4 de julio de 2013 - 08:36 | PDF