Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°6 (2015)

LAM

12 LAND MATTERS

14 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

20 NOW
New light on the global dust cycle: the landscape winners of the Knight Cities Challenge; what cities with quiclky aging populations need; things yu don’t often hear about the sounds outside; and more.

40 SPECIES
The killing method of the emerald cockroach wasp, terrific in its precision, humbled even Charles Darwin; plus, agave, the terminal bloomer.
By Constance Casey

48 INTERVIEW
Crowd computing
The movement of crowds through public spaces seem haphazard. Studies by a computer scientist, Ioannis Karamouzas, suggest they are cannier than they appear.
By Michael Cannell

52 ECOLOGY
Don’t Bring It Here
New York State, following Florida and Wisconsin, recently enacted new bans on several dozen invasive species.
By Anne Raver

66 PLANNING
A Canopy in Crisis
Louisville officials are just realizing they have a real problem with tree loss, and aim to fix it.
By Alan G. Brake

72 GOODS
Fun Stuff
Kids can sit on a “log”, climb – even in the dark – or get drenched.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

82 Time to go
It feels bad when longtime partners break away, but it´s a form of reproduction.
By Mark Hough, FASLA

92 The shelter of oaks
On a run-down California property, Lutsko Associates repatriates the native forest.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA.

102 Treasure island
This summer and evermore, the hammocks are swinging on Governors Island, a revolution fortress turned refuge by West 8.
By Jonathan Lerner

THE BACK

126 Everybody into the pool!
Around the public pools, or badis, in Zurich, it’s hard to tell if desire or design came first.
By Jessica Bridger

136 Books
Metropolitics
A review of [Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century, by Steven Conn.
By Alex Krieger

164 DISPLAY AD INDEX

165 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

180 BACKSTORY
Parks Anywhere
Pollinators in Toronto have patches of native plants where they can rest and refuel, thanks to the Homegrown National Park.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 17 de julio de 2015 - 11:59 | Actualizado: 17 de julio de 2015 - 11:59 | PDF