Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°8 (2013)

LAM

12 Land Matters

14 Letters

Foreground

20 Now
There is a lot moving in the waterways this month: a small opening in the Everglades, Streams 101 in Kansas, and a new whitewater downtown in Georgia, Also, a generous stroll for elephants in Washington, and tricks of the eye in street-tree plantings.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

44 Species
The great blue heron’s neck makes the bird a wading spear; plus, a red begonia on a North Korean billboard has a creepy sort of meaning
By Constance Casey

52 Grounds
The Green Carpet
The huge lawns of the Mall in Washington are under a massive renovation to make them durable and beautiful – and not like a dusty mindway for the First Amendment
By Linda McIntyre

64 Goods
Hood Ornaments
What the best dressed public spaces are sporting
By Lisa Speckhardt

Features

74 You must engage: an interview with Mikyoung Kim, ASLA
The designer talks about a practice that channels between art and landscape architecture, and describes the job as being like her years of training as musician: It is a performance
Interview by Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA

82 Every sense
Your may linger. You may whiz by. Either way, Mikyoung Kim´s latest works are about surprise, spectacle, and a whole-body experience.
By Alex Ulam

102 Wood that could and should
Old waterfront warehouse made way for Brooklyn Bridge Park, but they’re still there, sort of, for you to sit on.
By Kate Larsen, Affiliate ASLA, and Michael Wilson, Associate ASLA

The Back

116 Inventing Landscapes
A profession with a lot of patents is a profession in charge of its destiny. Landscape architecture has produced some important patents, though they were a long time ago.
By Richard L. Hindle

126 Books
Drawing, Dreaming, Thinking, and Making Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings and Digital Landscape Architecture Now
By Nadia Amoroso
By Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA

148 Display and Index

149 Buyer’s guide Index

160 Backstory
Field of trees
The National Arboretum outside Canberra, Australia, will have 100 forest and 100 gardens

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