Landscape Architecture Magazine V.102 N°10 (2012)

LAM

22 Land matters

28 Letters

Foreground

40 Now
A formal cap-and-trade proposal for water pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is under consideration; wildfire frequency in the West looks “Extremely anomalous” to researchers, a statewide parking dispute arises in California; and more.
Linda McIntyre

64 Water
Totally Transformed
Electrical power plants are not noted for their neighborliness. But in Burbank, California, AHBE Landscape Architects has turned the local utility plant in one of the more stormwater-wise sites in town.
Joanne Furio

FEATURES

114 DUST TO BUST
Owens Lake was drained to bring water to Los Angeles. Now it´s a hotbed of blowing toxic dust. Three landscape architecture firms are working to find out what might hold the ground.
Anne Raver

130 THE DESERT DIVINED
An Australian landscape architect and student of parched land drives from El Paso to Tucson to find signs of water, wisdom, and oblivion.
By Brooke Madill

142 THE GARDEN OF DESERTS DLIGHTS
Under sandstone buttes at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects has created a new entry garden to usher people into the mystique of the Sonoran Desert.
Jennifer Zell, ASLA

152 ALWAYS SUNNY
The billionaires Walter and Lee Annenberg left Sunnylands, their state in Southern California, as a place and progress. At its new visitor center, the Office of James Burnett has designed an incredibly voluptuous desert garden.
Bradford McKee

THE BACK

170 LAW OF THE (DRY) LAND
Under Colorado´s water laws, you can´t capture rainwater because you don’t own it. But for conservation´s sake, the state is trying a new approach.
Arthur Allen

178 DON´T TOUCH THAT TAP
When issuing emergency water restrictions, offialdom ought to give landscapes priority.
Kim Sorving

186 BOOKS

Motives and Means
A review of A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design by Carl Steinitz, Honorary ASLA.
Allan W. Shearer, ASLA

222 DISPLAY AD INDEX

224 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

240 FOREWARD

Design Reckoning in the West
What we can learn from the Drylands
Design competition.
Hadley Arnold

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 26 de octubre de 2012 - 08:02 | Actualizado: 26 de octubre de 2012 - 08:02 | PDF