Landscape Architecture Magazine V.107 N°3 (2017)

LAM

12 INSIDE

16 LAND MATTERS

18 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

24 NOW
Students investigate creatures as fellow designers; a Baltimore development yields aividends for a local school; social media hijacks a park design for the better; the Doomsday seed bank opens to save Syrian crops; and more.
Edited ByTimothy A. Schuler

48 ECOLOGY
The Upside of a Die-Off
When a Houston park’s tree canopy began to perish after a multiyear drought, an opportunity emerged to rebuild a better urban forest.
By Allyn West

60 ENERGY
The Art of Infrastructure
Solar panels and wind turbines aren´t known for great design, but new research on landscape aesthetics and renewables could help change that.
ByTimothy A. Schuler

72 GOODS
Safe and Sound
Design elements to privide sense of security
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

84 START YOUR ENGINES
Think you have what it takes to start your own design firm? You’re probably right.
By Kevan Williams

98 PEDAL HARDER
Two wheels, one objetive: Steve Durrant, FASLA, is on a mission to design better bicyle infrastructure
By Fred. A Bernstein

110 Walking the walk
Fifteen years and two mayors in the making, Sasaki’s Riverwalk along the Chicago along the Chicago River delivers public goods with glamour.
By Jane Margolies

THE BACK

136 ANOTHER VIEW
Long-neglected photographs of the easter United States come into focus in a pioneering show at the National Gallery of Art.
By Jennifer Reut

148 BOOKS
Still on the Trail
A review of The Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chanberlin.
By Betsy Anderson, Associate ASLA

170 ADVERTISER INDEX

180 BACKSTORY
Cross Roads
Finding landscape connectivity for animals as well as people on a former du Pont state.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 19 de abril de 2017 - 08:46 | Actualizado: 19 de abril de 2017 - 08:46 | PDF