Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°11 (2013)

LAM

30 Land Matters

38 Letters

Foreground

50 Now
A new prison landscape in Iowa; a lost emerald returning to Boston´s necklace; and two postgraduate guys who decided to redesign Dublin´s riverfront, and may well do so. Also, remembering James van Sweden.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, Fasla

86 Species
What´s happening to the junipers of Scotland (it´s no good); plus, wild turkey, seldom where you want them and often where you don´t.
By Constance Casey

98 Parks

The Sandy Squad
After Hurricane Sandy Battered New York’s parks, a new team was detailed to take stock of unprecedented damage and start to put things back together. At some point, their work could be a playbook for postdisaster cleanup.
By Linda McIntyre

116 Goods

Garden Arts
Fresh takes on garden staples
By Lisa Speckhardt

Features

130 The new Extremes
The forecast is for heavier rains, bigger cyclones, and more intense wildfires. New and finer-grained climate models can help landscape architects confront the localized effects of climate change with increasing certainty

138 Square one
Six years after being leveled by a tornado bigger than it was, Greensburg, Kansas, began rebuilding from nothing. BNIM´s landscape architecture studio helped steer the down toward a new future grounded in renewable energy and sustainable design
By Adam Regn Arvidson, Fasla

154 Permafrost frontier
Amid the slow turmoil of warning at the edge of the Artic Circle, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, FASLA, designed the grounds of a new community school with the highest form of security – food security – as her priority
By Anne Raver

172 The edge of the World
In Rotterdam’s massive new land-creation project on the North Sea cost by H+N+S, imperatives merged to ensure that the city remains Europe’s largest port and stays safe from rising waters
By Jessica Bridger

188 Sooner or later at seaside
An experimental effort by Alexander J. Felson, ASLA, to protect a shoreline neighborhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from frequent flooding shows how hard it is to make a whole community appreciate the existential threat of climate change

198 Think of swim
Around the Matanzas River basin in coastal Florida, researchers and the public are in the middle of a multifaceted process of understaning how encroaching waters over time will change their surroundings and what adaptations may be possible.
By Jonathan Lerner

The Back

214 The life of Kiley

At the centenary of Dan Kiley´s birth, the Cultural Landscape Foundation is bringing out a fresh photographic retrospective on his work
By Jennifer Reut

222 Books

The prophet’s Motive
A review of Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents, edited by Andrés Duany and Emily Talen, and Charter of the New Urbanism, Emily Talen, editor
By John King

258 Display ad index

260 Buyer´s Guide Index

276 Backstory

The Risk Picture
AECOM tells federal officials where floods could increase
By Jennifer Reut

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 28 de noviembre de 2013 - 07:20 | Actualizado: 28 de noviembre de 2013 - 07:21 | PDF