DECEMBER 2018

10 Inside

12 Land Matters

14 Letters

FOREGROUND

18 Now
Pocket parks emerge where Seattle’s waterfront streets end; the University of Hawaii gets a new MLA program; in Portland, Oregon, a prizewinning bench makes people cry; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

36 Outreach
Crisis Actors
In San Francisco, teams in the Resilient by Design challenge found that agitprop—an old Soviet-style publicity technique—still works in the Instagram age.
By Sarah Cowles

 46 Plants
Pairings with Wine
The horticulturist Sean Hogan brings a palette of low-water, high-interest plants to Argyle Winery.
By Kyna Rubin

56 Tech
Practice Makes Permeable
A research project takes advantage of rapid prototyping with 3-D printers.
By Haniya Rae

66 Goods 
Tech Time
“Smart” products can make your life and practice easier.

FEATURES

 72 Here Comes Everybody
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ transformation of a postindustrial New York waterfront to the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge Park took two decades to realize. It was worth the wait.
By Anne Raver

100 Always Working
A constructed salt marsh at Pier 1 makes a beautiful defense.
By Melanie Rehak

118 How to Overstuff a Sterile Site
The plantings at Brooklyn Bridge Park follow a strategy of “exaggerated ecology.”
By Bradford McKee

121 Softening the Sound
Noise reduction in the park takes the form of a mountain.
By Haniya Rae

THE BACK

134 The Specialists
Sam Droege put some ultra-high-resolution photographs of bees on the Internet. And then they took off.
By Maggie Zackowitz

146 Books
Well Grounded
A review of Landscape into Eco Art, by Mark A. Cheetham.
By Melissa S. Ragain

240 Advertiser Index

241 Advertisers by Product Category

252 Backstory
With the Blind in Mind
A Fort Lauderdale mural is a feast for the senses.
By Maggie Zackowitz

 

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