14 Inside
20 Land Matters
FOREGROUND
24 Now
Sasaki rehabilitates a Florida brownfield; nonnative milkweed causes butterfly die-off; a pocket park goes in next to a Chicago police station; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
50 Water
A Floodplain Forest
This setback levee project will give a river room to meander and help protect Hamilton City, California, from flooding.
By Lisa Owens Viani
62 Planning
Open Book
A new stormwater management manual for multifamily residences aids resilience in Lexington, Kentucky.
By Jared Brey
74 Goods
Pop These In
Blueberries, black-eyed Susans, and more in new plant varieties.
By Emily Cox
FEATURES
84 Get It Done
The Great Recession helped launch a wave of quick, low-cost projects to suit budgets of the era. It’s still going strong.
By Kim O’connell
96 Make It Pop
Some popped up and popped back down. Some stuck around or led to bigger things. An album from a decade of pop-up.
112 Power Play
The nonprofit KaBOOM! has perfected a seemingly guerrilla approach to making playgrounds where kids lack them.
By Christina Cheakalos
THE BACK
130 The Big time. The Bigger Time.
A conversation among the women behind the Women’s Landscape Equality (re)Solution.
With Gina Ford, FASLA; Cinda Gilliland, ASLA; Rebecca Leonard, asla; and Jamie Maslyn Larson, ASLA. Introduction by Steven Spears, FASLA
150 Books
An Antidote to Excess
A review of Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes, by Marc Treib.
By Jacky Bowring
174 Advertiser Index
175 Advertisers by product category
188 Backstory
A Planetary Proposal
A sprawling corridor park could connect Earth’s most biodiverse places.
By Timothy A. Schuler
