Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°11 (2015)

LAM

32 LAND MATTERS

38 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

46 NOW
Water fountains used to be everywhere but are no more; a public-private collaboration ensures deeds for landscape rehab; urban stormwater strategies re handicapped by a lack of common language; environmental justice feeds into the EPA’s new Clean Power Plan; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

70 SPECIES
With boas, it’s not your breathing that stops; plus, lichens: two organisms for price of one!
By Constance Casey

INTERVIEW

Where the Water Will Be
The writer Peter Annin talks about a relatively young compact to protect the Great Lakes, which is facing its first legal challenge and surely not its last.
By Jennifer Reut

86 HOUSE CALL

Outside Looking In
Coen+Partners’ courtyard landscape for a new house in Chicago’s Wicker Park pushes the limits of rules about a property’s exposure.
By Camille Lefevre

100 GOODS
A Place to Park
These bike racks are secure and sexy.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

112 THE CONNECTOR

Designing for equity in post-Katrina New Orleans means knowing when to make do and when to push. Diane Jones Allen, ASLA, is skilled at both.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

122 STREET THEATER

In St. Louis, the new Public Media Commons creates a home for art and free expression.
By Bradford McKee

132 WE GOT FUN AND FOAM

The frenetic playscape of Maggie Daley Park has already gained legions of small fans, but the way it holds to the parking garage below is a spectacle all its own.
By Timothy A. Schuler

150 DEEP CUT

A storied quarry in a working-class neighborhood of Chicago has become a park with an edge.
By Zach Mortice

164 THE BISON BEGIN AGAIN

The stewards of prairie restoration in Illinois are counting on reintroduced bison to establish its ecological balance.
By Timothy A Schuler

THE BACK

192 LANDSLIDE 2015

Where the Wild Plants Are
The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Landslide campaign celebrates the designs of Oehme, van Sweden.
By Katrina Katsma, ASLA

200 BOOKS

Modernism’s Missing
A review of Women, Modernity and Landscape Architecture, edited by Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley.
By Caroline Constant

208 ASLA CONTINUING EDUCATION

Suburban Street Stormwater Retrofitting

234 DISPLAY AND INDEX

236 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

252 BACKSTORY

Another View
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art looks at landscape painting of the Americas.
By Jennifer Reut

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 24 de noviembre de 2015 - 13:54 | Actualizado: 24 de noviembre de 2015 - 13:54 | PDF