Landscape Architecture Magazine V.104 N°9 (2014)

LAM

12 LAND MATTERS

FOREGROUND

18 NOW
The full view of a freedmen’s settlement in Brooklyn; North Carolina’s ambition for a statewide trail network; a new global map of cities’ freshwater sources; and more.
Edited by Adam regn Arvidson, FASLA

32 SPECIES
Puffins prefer to do almost everything in the ocean, but the waters where they live are warming. Plus, sometimes it´s called wicker, but in fact it´s rattan, and supplies are thinning.
By Constance Casey

38 NURSERY
An Oak Stalker, Still at Large
There are as yet no successful eradication strategies for the pathogen that causes sudden oak deth, which has dozens of host species, so scientist are looking ever harder at ways to prevent its spread.
By Lisa Owens Viani

50 ECOLOGY
Have Tree, Will Travel
Some conservationists are relocating certain plants that they fear won´t survive climate change in their current habitats. It´s tricky trying to create populations rather than plantations.
By Kevan Williams

62 GOODS
Uncommon Grounds
Outdoor fixtures in sleek shapes and styles.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

74 RUN DRY
Worries about water in California are now critical after three extremely dry years. A Deepening drought is making the state’s imbalances between supply and demand grow starker.
Yes in certain places, things seem to go on as ever.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA

86 THE MIDDLE OF TRAUMA
The public’s embrace of a new memorial to thousands of people killed in Mexico’s drug war in less equivocal than the reconciliation the memorial is supposed to bring about.
By Jimena Martignoni

96 SALVATION IN A GRAIN OF SAND
The owners of a notable Long Island beach house began to forge a truce with the rising sea in 1998. Their adaptation continues on a hypnotic landscape by LaGuardia Design, while the trials of many people around them are only beginning.
By Mac Griswold

108 CHICAGO FELL IN LOVE
After a decade’s seasoning and some inevitable alterations, the Lurie Garden has matured into the muscular yet delicate set piece that Chicago’s spectacular lakefront deserves.
By Thaïsa Way, ASLA.

THE BACK

124 THE OTHER END OF THE TRACKS
What people have feared about rail to rail proposals over time has proved to be much worse than what new trails actually bring.
By Silas Chamberlin

136 BOOKS

Measuring Influence
A review of The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010, James Corner and Alison Bick Hirsch, editors.
By Julia Czerniak, ASLA

164 DISPLAY AD INDEX

165 BUYER´S GUIDE INDEX

176 BACKSTORY

Out of Sight
A filmmaker talks about her documentary on buried urban rivers.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA.

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 1 de octubre de 2014 - 11:57 | Actualizado: 1 de octubre de 2014 - 11:57 | PDF