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THE VIEW FROM THE CROWDS

Posted in ASLA, AWARDS, INTERVIEW, LAM MAGAZINE, PHOTOGRAPHY on January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

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From the January 2013 issue of LAM:

By Lydia W. Lee

Even though Alexander Dunkel, Student ASLA, has never visited the High Line in New York City, he can tell you exactly what part of the park is the most popular: the 10th Avenue Square. How? He spent a year analyzing Flickr, the popular image web site, and seeing where people take the most photos. Because many of the images in Flickr collections are tagged with their precise geographic location as well as a descriptor (“Golden Gate Bridge,” for example), Dunkel was able to generate maps of an area’s most frequently photographed subjects. From his home in Dresden, Germany, he spoke about his research at the University of California, Berkeley, which won a 2012 ASLA Student Honor Award.

What inspired you to study Flickr?

Flickr is a unique source of data that shows how people interact with the landscape. Some people take pictures all the time, some people only take a picture of things that are really important to them, but if you look at the whole data set, you see what the majority opinion is.

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HOW SWEET

Posted in CITIES, LAM MAGAZINE, PARKS, SHORELINE on January 28, 2013 | 2 Comments »

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From the January 2013 issue of LAM:

By Daniel Jost, ASLA

 It’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or, as they say here in Toronto, a balmy 27 degrees. Stephanie McCarthy leans back in a white Adirondack chair and digs her feet into the sand. On Canada’s Sugar Beach she’s just a short walk from her downtown apartment, though as she sits in the shade of a pink umbrella, it seems a little unreal. “It feels like you’re somewhere tropical,” she says, “like a minivacation.”

There are plenty of signs that this is Canada. The CN Tower rises just behind us, and there’s a maple-leaf-shaped fountain full of kids. But if you get a good seat, and angle yourself just right, all you see is sand, water, and sky.

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MEET THE EDITORS

Posted in LAM MAGAZINE on September 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Do you have a project you’d like to pitch to Landscape Architecture Magazine? Are you interested in writing for us? Landscape architects and other licensed design professionals attending the ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Phoenix next weekend can sign up to meet LAM’s editors and share their work. Meetings are 15 minutes long and should be limited to three projects. We hope to see you there!

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THE INVENTIONS OF REED HILDERBRAND

Posted in INTERVIEW, LAM MAGAZINE, PRACTICE on August 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Adapted from an article in the August 2012 issue of LAM:

By William S. Saunders

In the culture of landscape architecture, the work of Reed Hilderbrand of Watertown, Massachusetts, stands out by not calling attention to itself in any brash way. It is at once highly restrained and highly refined, sensitively attuned to its sites and devoted to enhancing given qualities that the designers find worth accentuating. It is the opposite of egocentric. It seeks to create knowledge of a specific place and also a highly benevolent experience in that place. It is extraordinarily attentive and kind.

Reed Hilderbrand LLC, a firm of about 35 people under the leadership of Douglas Reed, FASLA, and Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, won three ASLA awards last year for projects—the Central Wharf, the Half-Mile Line, and the Beck House—featured in this issue of LAM. Before that, they had been recognized with ASLA awards more than a dozen times. Reed is cochair of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Hilderbrand has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design since 1990. I’ve known them both for many years. I interviewed them on a lovely spring evening in my garden in Auburndale, Massachusetts.

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THE UTTERLY MEANINGLESS AGENDA 21

Posted in LAM MAGAZINE, PLANNING, REGULATIONS on August 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »

From the August 2012 issue of LAM:

The commissioners of Baldwin County, Alabama, are set to decide this month whether to file the comprehensive county plan the commission adopted in July 2009—a plan that cost $280,000—in the garbage can. The commissioners passed the plan, by a vote of 3 to 1, as a way to “guide the timing and quality of future development” in the county, which borders the Gulf of Mexico. One commissioner, Charles “Skip” Gruber, told Connie Baggett of the Press-Register in Mobile that “[T]his was voted the best plan in Alabama, and we paid good money for that plan.” It was also the way for the county to comply with Alabama’s state requirement that localities “maintain a comprehensive plan,” as Baggett reported.

But now the state has a different kind of rule: In mid-May, the state’s lawmakers voted unanimously to pretty much proscribe any kind of planning, comprehensive or otherwise, by the state or its local jurisdictions that would “deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, ‘Agenda 21.’”

Over the past few years, one of the most bizarre and widespread political conflicts about land use and sustainability centers on Agenda 21, a 20-year-old, nonbinding United Nations document that has become a piñata for people skeptical of sustainability programs and smart growth. What began as rants on conspiracy-minded web sites is now playing out in public meetings, op-ed pages, and statehouses across the country. (more…)

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WHERE’S THE NEAREST BARNES AND NOBLE?

Posted in LAM MAGAZINE on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Well, it’s funny you should ask. The April issue of LAM is on the front shelf of 692 Barnes and Noble mag sections.

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WELCOME…

Posted in LAM BLOG, LAM MAGAZINE on April 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »

…to the new home page and blog of Landscape Architecture Magazine, which is launching, by no accident, to kick off April, also known as National Landscape Architecture Month—though we plan to stick around quite a bit longer. Our good friends at The Dirt, Jared Green and Krista Sharp, have been helping us set up the format and load up bits of content to make it seem as if we’ve been doing this since the magazine started in 1910.

The Mission: to bring you short pieces, point you around to new stuff both on the web and off, that we think you should check out well before we’d ever be able to bring them to you in the monthly print magazine. News, features, designs, announcements, events, products, marginalia, and magazine extras—the stuff it pains us to leave out of the print edition—will all have a home here. We will also offer a few stories each month from the magazine, though you’ll want to keep subscribing so you’ll receive the whole thing.

Our mix of information will be eclectic. Our rhythm, we hope, will be daily or more often. Landscape architecture, like everything else, moves faster than it once did. The print magazine continues as our mainstay, the place where we look in depth at topics, places, and people you should know about. But there’s a lot more we don’t want you to pass by.

So bookmark us, put us on your RSS feed, do what you must to come back and see us often. Tell us when there are things you think we should pass on to our readers. Feel free to send us a tweet: @landarchmag.

We’ll be eager to hear what you think.

—Brad McKee, Lisa Speckhardt, Chris McGee, Lisa Schultz, and Dan Jost, ASLA

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