Landscape Architecture Magazine V.106 N°5 (2016)

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12 LAND MATTERS

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FOREGROUND

22 NOW
A new vision for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline might have a shot; learning to live with it when your designs are changed, tactical urbanism for the poolside set; and more.
EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

46 SPECIES
Gray squirrels have one big problem in life – finding food in the winter. It has not held tem back much.
BY CONSTANCE CASEY

50 ECOLOGY
For the Birds, Indeed
A new online tool is rolling out to help in planting for a wildlife diversity – without an Excel spreadsheet
BY CAROL BECKER

60 PARKS
The Grater Margins
Around the Appalachian Trail, cooperation among conservation groups and the National Park Service could mean new models for preserving large landscapes.
BY DANIEL HOWE, FASLA

70 GOODS
All Play
The more unexpected, the more fun.
BY KATARINA KATSMA, ASLA

FEATURES

78 THE ART OF HANGING OUT
A tricky plaza around a residential tower at a Boston art school gains clarity and even joy from student imput and Ground Inc.

92 ALL ALONG THE LINE
Portland’s new light rail shows why the city is light years ahead in transportation design: Landscape architects lead.
BY BETSY ANDERSON, ASSOCIATE ASLA

110 THE LIGHTEST TOUCH
Isabelle Greene, FASLA, was starting out in the 1970s when she met the Lovelaces Forty years later, the garden she made for them has the imprint of all she’s learned.
BY LISA GIMMY, ASLA

120 The Landscape Architecture Foundation is marking a half century since Ian McHarg issued an urgent call of action. Several landscape architects bring that plea to present day.

THE BACK

134 THE EARTH TO SPACE
In Scotland, Charles Jencks supplants a mining landscape with the celestial symbols of the Crawick Multiverse.
BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN

144 BOOKS
The Common Green
A review of The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682-1876, by Elizabeth Milroy.
BY WHITNEY MARTINKO

170 DISPLAY AD INDEX

184 BACKSTORY
Hey, Listen!
An exhibit in San Francisco looks at the many ways to experience sound in the urban environment.
BY KATARINA KATSMA, ASLA

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