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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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APRIL 2019

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

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