Landscape Architecture Magazine Vol. 102 N°6 (2012)

LAM

14 Land Matters

18 Letters

Foreground

26 Now
The high cost of rebuilding branches; walking instructions in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Matt Tomasulo, Student ASLA, of CityFabric fame; Connecticut l obbyists who think pesticides around day-care centers are not appalling, and more.
Edited by Linda McIntyre

42 Species
When woodpeckers bang their heads against a wall, it´s with purpose, and the ethereal dove tree proved to be a grail of sorts for a young plant hunter
By Constance Casey

48 Interview
Be the Change
Jon Jarvis, Honorary ASLA, the director of the National Park Service, explains the climate change observations taking place in the national parks
By Linda McIntyre

54 Practice
Liability and You
Are you covered in the event of the worst?
By Michael Singer

64 Workstation
What´s in an Image?
Want to know how James Corner Field Operations builds a rendering for the London Olympic Park? Yes.
By Zoe Edgecomb

74 Planning
A Greener City Grid
Chicago has some rather specific ideas to take the brown edge off the city.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, Fasla

84 Sites
The Dirt on Soils
A good part of your qualifying for credits under the Sustainable Sites Initiative will depend on the way you treat the soil

94 Goods
States of Play
Kids are naturally attracted to the outdoors, and these play structures will make them want to stay and play longer

Features

102 The Trouble with Brick
Nearly 22 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activists are talking about the hazards of paving sidewalks with our most common clay block in Boston, it´s a real problem
By Elizabeth S. Padjen

110 Nature makes Nature
In California, the Tomales Bay estuary is not a dairy farm anymore.
By Emily Vogler and Danielle Choi

The Back

142 Glass Act
Just look at what Cao Perrot Studio has done to a Beatrix Farrand terrace at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C
Photography by Stephen Jerrom

152 Books
How Does Landscape Architecture Mean?
By William S. Saunders

179 Display ad Index

192 Forward
Design the Night
Outdoor lighting at night is important. But we are pointing in the wrong direction.
By Jeff Schnabel, ASLA

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 27 de junio de 2012 - 09:46 | Actualizado: 27 de junio de 2012 - 09:46 | PDF