Landscape Architecture Magazine V.105 N°2 (2015)

LAM

8 LAND MATTERS

10 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

14 NOW
A pop-up park is a cabaret in Camden, New Jersey; a quest to find play voids in cities; a Minnesota lake’s overly rich diet of old phosphorus; Barry Diller’s new pet project in the Hudson River; and more.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

30 SPECIES
The global spread of eucalyptus, “fuel tanks wrapped in kindling.” Plus, koalas: indolent, sharp-clawed, and anything but care bears.
By Constance Casey

38 WATER
The Dust Settlement
Regulators in charge of clearing up clouds of particulates blowing off the dried- up Owens Lake in California have reached their ultimate solution: till the lake bed, then flood it gently
By Anne Raver

46 PLANNING
What Ecodistricts Need
Comprehensive schemes for ecodistricts promise greener neighborhoods in ways that avoid regulatory and developer whims. A big hurdle remains in furnishing their heavy utilities.
By Brian Barth, Affiliate ASLA

58 SOILS
Life in the Dirt
What to know about exudates, cation exchange, tilth, and other vital and all but invisible factors on witch thriving soil depends.
By James Sottilo

66 HOUSE CALL
Among the Vines
It´s one to live in Napa Valley, and another entirely to make your house blend seamlessly with surrounding vineyards. Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture made it happen.
By Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA

76 GOODS
Set in Rows
If your must have bollards, at least make them good ones.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

84 A HAND UP, A HAND DOWN
Set-aside programs for women-owned landscape architecture firms often help some break into projects they might not have otherwise, but they also involve their share of chagrin.
By Fred A Bernstein

92 !MELK MAN
Jerry Van Eyck, ASLA, didn,t move from the Netherlands to set up! Melk, his landscape architecture and design firm in Manhattan. But it would have been a decent bet if he had, considering the growing book of public space and park business he has going.
By Alan G Barke

110 SOFT LANDING
On Miami’s shoreline of Biscayne Bay, ArquitectonicaGEO has set the stage for a native plant community and flood control around the grounds of a new art museum by Herzog & De Meuron.
By Beth Dunlop

THE BACK

126 EVERYTHING ON THE BLADE
With the Alvsjö Flatbed in 2001, James Corner was proposing not a design, but a revelatory working method.
By Pierre Bélanger

134 BOOKS
Right into the Ground
A review of Natural Burial: Landscape, Practice, and Experience by Andy Clayden, Trish Green, Jenny Hockey, and Mark Powell.
By Scheri Fultineer, ASLA

156 DISPLAY AD INDEX

157 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

168 BACKSTORY
Design Story
The writing on the website Re: form offers reminders that everything is designed.
By Jennifer Reut

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 11 de marzo de 2015 - 08:34 | Actualizado: 11 de marzo de 2015 - 08:34 | PDF