Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°3 (2015)

LAM

10 LAND MATTERS

FOREGROUND

16 NOW
In metro Vancouver, British Columbia, a new park expands the scarce supply of public waterfront on the Fraser River; landscape architecture’s economic impact is tiny buy growing, $7.5 billion is marked for a state water plan in parched California; and more.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

32 SPECIES
Poisonous spiders, often wrongly accused of assault, plus, the starry stonewort, an alga more successful abroad than at home.
By Constance Casey

40 EDUCATION
Chatham Shuts the Door
Last year, the bell tolled for Chatham University’s master’s degree program in landscape architecture under an administration that doesn’s seem ever to have known what it was.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

52 PLAY
DIY, Kiddo
A program of the Trust for Public Land is turning hard, ugly playgrounds in New York City into fun community parks, and maybe producing a few future landscape along the way.
By Alex Ulam

64 WATER
The Drought Will Tell
Joni L. Janecki & Associates designed the Packard Foundation’s landscape to stand up to California’s feast-or-famine moisture patterns Lately, it´s been famine and more famine, and the plantings hold their own.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA

80 HOUSE CALL
Team Effort
A student design collaboration for the Solar Decathlon produced a house and garden for a wounded war veteran. An ASLA Student Award followed.
By Jennifer Reut

90 GOODS
Backyard Bait
The season of sitting outside and staring is night. Here are some objects to keep in view.
Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

102 MANY SAND COUNTIES
The ground beneath much of Wisconsin is being upturned for a special type of sand that is a hot commodity for the fracking business. Fortunes are at stake, and the land will never be the same.
By Philip Walsh

120 EYES NORTHWARD
Lateral Office, in Toronto, so far has made a name largely on its research, which is increasingly focused on the vast, strange Artic lands of Canada.
By Jane Margolies

134 Kids in Oregon, it may surprise you to know, can be as indoors as any others, but three rugged new projects show that the natural play movement is taking hold.

THE BACK

150 BAY Q&A
Jane Wolff parses the seemingly ordinary environment of San Francisco Bay to show its true complexity in her project Bay Lexicon.
By Bradfor McKee

156 BOOKS
Landmarks Revisited
A review of City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America.
By Alison Bick Hirsch.
By John King, honorary ASLA.

176 DISPLAY AD INDEX

177 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

188 BACKSTORY
Buket Book
A huge new book published by Phaidon would have you think all the world is a garden.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 26 de mayo de 2015 - 11:59 | Actualizado: 26 de mayo de 2015 - 11:59 | PDF