Landscape Architecture Magazine comes out 12 times a year, but we like to call it a quarterly that comes out monthly. In other words, we pack a lot into each issue for ASLA members, subscribers, and readers who pick up LAM at their local bookstore. But what a lot of our online readers don’t know is that, four times a year, we give digital issues of LAM away for free. As luck would have it, December’s excellent issue is one of those times. Here’s a little preview of what you can find in the free December issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine:
- L.A.’s Grand Park by Rios Clementi Hale Studios is the big civic park that street-shy Los Angelenos can, and do, actually use.
- James Sipes, ASLA, reports on the convergence of data visualizations and mapping.
- Canada’s Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning helps communities literally see climate change’s effects on their own towns.
- Folk art is often situated in some of the most unique and ephemeral vernacular landscapes around. Kevan Williams finds out what it takes to preserve and restore these unique places.
- Graduate students from Washington University work the food chain from the farming end and discover the link between “city” and “country” is much more complicated than they’d thought.
- Also, essays on starlings, Code for America’s Streetmix interface, clean energy as urban form maker, a “risky” schoolyard renovation, a restored rooftop garden in Chicago, and a study of communal property ownership. All this, plus our regular Goods and Books columns and LAM’s annual product guide.
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[…] Kevan Williams’s article on preserving folk art landscapes picked up a bit of traction when we published it back in December 2013, but we missed the Utne Reader’s hat tip in its piece on unconventional and underrepresented art spaces and SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), a group aimed at their preservation. […]