May 2013
10 Land Matters
12 Letters
Foreground
18 Now
Three winners in a Philadelphia stormwater design competition; a species thought extinct turns up in San Francisco; three great landscapes join the National Register; and LAM remembers its longtime editor, Grady Clay, who died in March.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA
36 Species
The pushy Norway maple and the recent confusion it caused in Canada; plus, here come the crickets, singing as if life depends on it. (It does.)
By Constance Casey
44 Parks
Legends and Wonders
A look around the five new national monuments named by the Obama administration in March.
By Lisa Speckhardt
52 Water
The Last Drops
Perkins+Will renovated a building for its Atlanta offices partly as a demo of how much rainwater
a built-out urban site can retain.
By Jonathan Lerner
62 Workstation
Field Notes
On an iPad, Adobe Ideas gives you quick ways to sketch out a site and record changes in construction, though it could stand more precision.
By Bruce Sharky, FASLA
66 Goods
The New Backyard
Distinctive outdoor seating, tables, and containers by Fermob, Vitra, and others.
By Lisa Speckhardt
Features
76 With The Flow
In cities, springs often move one way—into a pipe. But Marcel Wilson, ASLA, and Jennifer Carroll Wilson brought a spring out of the ground and into their garden in San Francisco.
By Joanne Furio
86 The Art Of The Matter
A sculpture garden by Bluegreen for a house in Aspen, Colorado, became a conceptual work in its own right.
By Nord Wennerstrom
98 All For The Trees
Wait, Pok Kobkongsanti, International ASLA, of TROP talked a developer client into working around what in building a new condo in central Bangkok? Who does that?
By James Grayson Trulove
The Back
116 A Trail of Stumps
You could say that ipe, the popular tropical hardwood, is a guilty pleasure. But once you trace the guilt back to the rain forest, the pleasure sort of melts away.
By Jane Hutton
128 Books
The Great Outside
A review of The Garden Club of America: 100 Years of a Growing Legacy, by William Seale.
By Jane Gillette
152 Display Ad Index
153 Buyer’s Guide Index
164 Backstory
Hi, Country!
William Philpott finds that when America climbed the Rockies, the views began to change in more than a few ways.
By William Richards
14 Land Matters
18 Letters
Foreground
26 NOW
In Norway, a new degree program takes on the effects of resource extraction in the Arctic; the extra lengths cyclists will ride for ease and safety; James McNabb’s cityscapes in miniature, and more.
Edited By Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA
38 SPECIES
More than Isaiah Berlin ever knew about hedgehogs; plus, the colorful legacy of the physician and botanist Matthias de L’Obel (perhaps on your patio).
By Constance Casey
44 WORKSTATION
Socially Yours
It can help your practice to use any of the many social networking sites. But time is tight and easy to waste, so invest your time on the web wisely.
By Amanda Kolson Hurley
54 NURSERY
The Root of the Problem
Circling or girdling tree roots can take down a large, seemingly healthy tree. The problem usually starts with growers, and there are ways to avoid it if you know the signs.
By James R. Urban, FASLA
70 HOUSE CALL
Still Utopia
H. Keith Wagner, FASLA, has done it again with his bucolic minimalism, this time on a piece of model farm that Frederick Law Olmsted designed during the Gilded Age.
By Jane Berger
80 GOODS
Bright Spots
We’ve got lighting: Spots, standards, pendants, and fire!
By Lisa Speckhardt
Features
92 Grown In Detroit
In the middle of downtown, Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture has made a village square where social life and food thrive together.
By Linda Mcintyre
102 Changing Lanes
Some cities’ transit malls have failed, but Portland, Oregon’s was simply lagging before a complete redesign of its streets and storefronts by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.
By Daniel Jost, ASLA
114 This American Piazza
It would be hard to name a broad, flat, sparsely planted public square that has worked well in this country. Director Park in Portland, by OLIN and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, may become one of the first.
By Daniel Jost, ASLA
The Back
132 Watering The Dead
In arid parts of the West, people continue to die and be buried in grassy memorial parks regardless of water shortages. But there are fitting alternatives to lying under a lawn.
By Stephanie Armetta Clements
140 BOOKS
Sandy and the Inevitable
A poststorm review of Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront by Barry Bergdoll, Michael Oppenheimer, and Judith Rodin.
Reviewed by Jessica Lamond and David Proverbs
178 Display Ad Index
180 Buyer’s Guide Index
192 BACKSTORY
The Wheels of San Francisco
In Street Fight, Jason Henderson looks politically at how commuters roll in the city.
By Lydia W. Lee
This page has the following sub pages.
