Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°1 (2015)

LAM

10 LAND MATTERS

12 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

20 NOW
A planner’s plan for Luisiana’s wildlife areas, among “resilience officers” shock and stress are in the job description; Dirk Sijmons parses energy landscapes; and remembering Bill Callaway of SWA Group.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, Fasla

32 SPECIES
Among the short lived opossum’s many defenses are an ability to destroy ticks and turn back a viper´s venom; plus, pawpaws, the native smoothie on a tree
By Constance Casey

42 WATER
Dry on a Good Day
The genius of the century-old Miami Conservancy District in Ohio is that it pairs flood control and land protection without politics
By Kevan Williams

50 PRACTICE
Strange Companions
Landing Studio turned a Massachusetts salt port from an obstacle to an attraction
By William S. Saunders

58 GOODS
Grounded
The actively beautiful surface
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

66 NO, NO , YO GO FIRST
Kids are right to be a bit scared a new playgrounds designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and James Mather Delaney. It’s good for them
By Gweneth Leigh, ASLA

82 THIS IS A TEST
On a green roof at the Chicago Botanic Garden by Oehme, van Sweden, palt failure is as important as success
By Lauren Mandel, Associate ASLA

94 SO CAL
Mia Lehrer + Associates’new garden at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is a paean to nature the city has lost
By Jennifer Reut

THE BACK

110 GROWING PAINS
Tactical urbanism for megacities at MOMA
Strategy would help
By Jonathan Lerner

120 BOOKS
On Center: Nature Revealed Through Geometry
A review of Tree Forest, by Gina Crandell
By Susan Herrington

136 DISPLAY AND INDEX

137 BUYER´S GUIDE INDEX

148 BACKSTORY
Plantée en Paris
A look at the photographer Marion Brenner’s new book with Zahid Sardar
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

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