Landscape Architecture Magazine v.107 N°2 (2017)

LAM

12 INSIDE

16 LAND MATTERS

18 LETTERS

FOREGROUND

24 NOW
NUVIS brings a new wave of land art at Owens Lake in California; an educator plumbs the hidden sand dunes beneath Chicago’s lakefront: a potentially easier way emerges to model wildlife corridors; and more.

44 INTERVIEW

Underneath, Overlooked
The head of the Design Trust for Public Space, Susan Chin, Honorary ASLA, describes efforts to reanimate neglected spaces around New York City’s elevated roads and rails
By Zach Mortice

50 PALETTE

Estuarine Serene
The garden of Campion Hruby Landscape Architects in Maryland, large or small, take their material inspiration from the shores of the Chesapeake Bay

64 GOODS

Light the Fire
A Warm glow comes in many guises
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION: OVER & UNDER

74 GOODBY HIGHWAYS
Half a century of urban wounds left by highways is prompting attempts to put cities back together
By Nate Berg

82 THE SEVEN-FOOT SANDWICH
At Hudson Yards in New York, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is creating a complex base on which to build a new mini-city
BY Alex Ulam

102 LOW OVERHEAD
In Toronto, PFS Studio makes a smash hit in Underpass Park
BY Jane Margolies

116 CITY, HEAL THYSELF
Land in Washington, D.C. has become too scarce to waste, which is why soon you won’t even know a highway trench near the U.S. Capitol ever existed
By Braulio Agnese

130 LAYERS OF PLAYERS
Margie Ruddick Landscape accomplished a lot beneath the rails and roads of Queens Plaza in New York – at least what the bureaucracy would allow
By Julie Lasky

144 THE LID COMES ON
Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, by OJB Landscape Architecture, has covered by highway gash and brought out people in droves
By Jonathan Lerner

THE BACK

160 THE GARDEN OF STUPIDITY
On Gustave Flaubert’s botanical busybodies
By Jane Gillete

170 BOOKS
Flooded with Ideas
A review of Waterproofing New York, edited by Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson.
By Thaisa Way, ASLA

190 ADVERTISER INDEX

191 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY

200 BACKSTORY

Big Picture
A new landscape atlas of Texas digs deep
By Jennifer Reut

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 22 de febrero de 2017 - 10:14 | Actualizado: 22 de febrero de 2017 - 10:14 | PDF