Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°4 (2013)

LAM

14 Land Matters

18 Letters

Foreground

26 Now
In Norway, a new degree program takes on the effects of resource extraction in the Artic; the extra lengths cyclists will ride for ease and safety; James NcNabb’s cityscapes in miniature, and more.
Edited by Adam Regn Ardidson, Fasla

38 Especies
More than Isaiah Berlin ever knew about hedgehogs; plus, the colorful legacy, of the physician and botanist Matthias de L’Obel (perhaps on your patio).
By Constance Casey

44 Workstation
Socially Yours
It can help your practice to use any of the many social networking sites. But time is tight and easy to waste, son invest your time on the web wisely.
By Amanda Kolson Hurley

54 Nursery
The Root of the Problem
Circling or girdling tree roots can take down a large, seemingly healthy tree. The problem usually starts with growers, and there are ways to avoid it if your know the signs.
By James R. Urban, Fasla

70 House call
Still Utopia
H. Keith Wagner, Fasla, has done it again with his bucolic minimalism, this time on a piece of model farm that Frederick Law Olmsted designed during the Gilded Age.

80 Goods
Bright Spots
We’ve got lighting: Spots, standards, pendants, and fire!
By Lisa Speckhardt

92 Features
Grown in Detroit
In the Middle of downtown, Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture has made a village square where social life and food thrive together.
By Linda McIntyre

102 Changing Lanes
Some cities’transit malls have failed, but Porland, Oregon’s was simply lagging before a complete redesign of its streets and storefronts by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.
By Daniel Jost, Asla

114 This American Piazza
It would be hard to name a brad, flat sparsely planted public square that has worked well in this country. Director Park in Portland by OLIN and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, may become one of the first
By Daniel Jost, Asla

The Back

132 The watering the dead
In arid parts of the West, people continue to die and be buried in grassy memorial parks regardless of water shortages. But there are fitting alternatives to lying under a lawn
By Stephanie Armetta Clements

140 Books
Sandy and the inevitable
A poststorm review of Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront by Barry Bergdoll, Michael Oppenheimer, and Judith Rodin.
Reviewed by Jessica Lamond and David Proverbs

178 Display ad Index

180 Buyer’s guide index

192 Backstory
The Wheels of San Francisco
In Street Fight, Jason Henderson looks politically at how commuters rool in the city
By Lydia W. Lee

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 26 de abril de 2013 - 08:45 | Actualizado: 26 de abril de 2013 - 08:45 | PDF