Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°1 (2013)

LAM

10 Land Matters

12 Letters

Foreground

18 Now
The scoop on the Dredge Research Collaborative, the watchdogs of port expansion plans, a free family of software tools for measuring tree cover and its benefits; the temperature rises that hardiness maps don’t show; a super-sharp camera for tracking changes on land, and more.
Edited by Linda McIntyre

30 Species
How wildflowers changed Lady Bird Johnson’s world and she, in turn, changed ours; plus, the life of one of the most abundant and best named birds in North America
By Constance Casey

36 Interview
The View from the Crowds
Alexander Dunkel, Student ASLA, explains how he analyzes the views people latch onto in landscapes and around monuments by using Flickr
By Lydia W. Lee

42 Workstation
The GIS You Need
Esri’s most recent suite of ArcGIS programs is easier for nonfanatics to use. They’re available on the desktop or from the cloud and play much better now with AutoCAD
By James L. Sipes, ASLA

52 GOODS
Show Stoppers
Fun and functional furnishings from the Maison&Object expo in Paris.
By Lisa Speckhardt

62 FEATURES
How Sweet
At Toronto’s Sugar Beach, Claude Cormier + Associés sen out some simple lines and shade trees, a bunch of sand, and a flock of pink umbrellas, and here came the neighborhood.
By Daniel Jost, ASLA

76 THE SOFT SELL
The Singapore government finds a new way to manage huge amounts of rainfall with the lush restoration of the Kallang River by Atelier Dreiseitl
By Bianca Maria Rinaldi

90 Later, and better
The midcentury Speckmann house in Saint Paul, Minnesota, gets the flattering landscape it always deserved from Coen + Partners
By Frank Edgerton Martin

106 THE BACK
The long view
Proposed alterations to the Christian Science Plaza in Boston should proceed with great care.
By Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA

114 BOOKS
High Times
A review of On the High Line: Exploring America’s Most Original Urban Park
By Jane Gillette

132 Display ad index

133 Buyer’s guide index

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 12 de marzo de 2013 - 11:06 | Actualizado: 12 de marzo de 2013 - 11:06 | PDF