Landscape Architecture Magazine V.106 N°3 (2016)

LAM

12 LAND MATTERS

14 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

20 NOW
Andropogon completes Bartram’s Mile in Philadelphia; Tom Leader Studio tries to unify answers to earthquakes and rising seas in the San Francisco Bay ragion; it will always be Chrismas at Gulf State Park; and more.
EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

40 SPECIES
When days of looking for food are tough, vampire bats observe a blood pact; plus, burdock follows a slow and steady approach to survival.
BY CONSTANCE CASEY

48 PLANNING
Houston Bets on the Bayou
SWA Group follows the success of its Buffalo Bayour Park with a scheme to expand a greenway system along several major bayous threaded through the city.
BY BRIAN BARTH

58 PARKS
The Call of the Open Space
In Georgia, the fast-growing Gwinnett County has been completely rthinking the types of parks it creates as its population diversifies.
BY KEVAN WILLIAMS

70 HOUSE CALL
The Make-Do Shrine
An odd artifact stuck in a Miami Beach garden works as a focus for a lush water garden by Savino & Miller Design Studio.
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

82 GOODS
Well Contained
Gorgeous new vessels to flatter any outdoor space.
BY LISA SPECKHARDT

FEATURES

92 GREEK REVIVAL
Somehow, Charles Anderson, FASLA, found himself in charge of creating what will be one of Europe’s biggest city parks, in Athens, on the enormous site of its former airport.
BY ALEX ULAM

112 ALIVE ON THE EDGE
On a wrecked waterfront in Beacon, New York, Reed Hilderbrand arrived a decade ago to begin making a park that defies the force of the glorious Hudson River.
BY ANNE RAVER

130 LEAFED OUT
Toronto’s downtown lakefront is open for new business since West 8 finished its redesign last summer of a soulless stretch of Queens Quay Boulevard.
BY KATHARINE LOGAN

THE BACK

146 SEEN AND SEEN
The deluxe edition of a new book about the pioneering writer and editor J.B.Jackson examines his connoisseurship of ordinary landscapes.
BY JENNIFER REUT

156 BOOKS

Centennial Bookshelf
On the occasion of the National Park Service’s centenary this year, a roundup of recent titles examining its legacy.
BY LAM STAFF

174 DISPLAY AD INDEX

175 BUYER’S GUIDE INDEX

188 BACKSTORY

Land Marked
Taking a hard look at the land art movement.
BY JENNIFER REUT

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 6 de abril de 2016 - 15:03 | Actualizado: 6 de abril de 2016 - 15:03 | PDF