Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°7 (2015)

LAM

12 LAND MATTERS

14 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

20 NOW
Flood control dovetail with foreclosure in Milwaukee; a farm atop an Indianapolis hospital yields a huge harvest; trees take on loaded significance near conflict zones, evolving LED’s present new environmental concerns; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

42 SPECIES
The Ioquat, a Chinese fruit tree sometimes found with is fragrant flesh, though animals return the favor by spreading its seeds.
By Constance Casey

50 FOOD
The Global Cocumber
The idea of a utopian food landscape for the Milan Expo 2015 seems to have been doomed from the start.
By Tim Waterman

60 INTERVIEW
Green Roof Gold
Molly Meyer, who started three companies for green roofs, says biodiversity is the next wave in her business.
By Lauren Mandel, ASLA

66 WATER
A River Returns
Since two high dams have come down on the Elwha River in Washington, the changes have been swift and dramatic.
By Katharine Logan

76 GOODS
Get Drenched
Still, flowing, or stored underground, water in the key ingredient.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

84 STAR WITNESS
A generations-long effort to remember Holocaust victims in Kiev at Baby Yar Park in Denver gains new gravity in a revived design by Tina Bishop, ASLA.
By Jane Margolies

104 The Chavis Conversion
The African American neighborhoods on South Park and East Raleigh in Raleigh, North Carolina, have long orbited around Chavis Park. A new master plan and a unorthodox process shows the rest on the city why.
By Jonathan Lerner

120 LIVE IT UP
The-high-rise One Central Park complex by Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Sydney is crawling with life across its facades, with plenty of automated help.
By Carol A. Becker

THE BACK

136 COMPETITIONS: WHAT’S THE REAL PRIZE?
You win some, and you also don’t lose some. A recent conference on the conducting of design competitions drew a range of views on what constitutes hitting the bull’s-eye.
By Elizabeth S. Padjen

146 SONGS OF ICE AND FIRE
Iceland is a geological treasure box. A new exhibition highlights the Arctic nation’s primal landscapes in photos, sound, and poetry.
By Jennifer Reut

156 BOOKS
Günther Vogt’s Multiform Cosmos
A review of Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities, by Günter Voght.
By Jane Hutton

180 DISPLAY AD INDEX

181 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

192 BACKSTORY
Big Trash Art
In Lisbon, Portugal, an artist makes murals from garbage.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 5 de agosto de 2015 - 12:28 | Actualizado: 5 de agosto de 2015 - 12:28 | PDF