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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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AUGUST 2016

12 Inside

14 Land Matters

16 Letters

FOREGROUND

22 Now
A young landscape architecture firm takes on Los Angeles; Nova Scotia’s new Open Hearth Park sits atop Canada’s most infamous brownfield; modular pieces of poured concrete take shape any way you want them; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

38 Species
The dandelion is a weed that everyone loves to hate; plus, Japanese beetles hitchhiked to New Jersey on nursery plants about 100 years ago, and just kept on going.
By Constance Casey

50 Office
Mind Your RFPs and Qs
Requests for Proposals, Requests for Qualifications: Three landscape architecture firm principals discuss their approaches.
By Jennifer Reut

60 Planning
Wary of Change
Residents of a historic African American enclave in Las Vegas­ would like investment but fear what it may bring.
By Nate Berg

72 Parks
Mission 66 Hits 50
Midcentury landscapes in the national parks are changing with the times.
By Timothy A. Schuler

80 Goods
Beyond Green
Black honeysuckle, white viburnum, and more vie for space in the garden.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

90 Century Marked

92 Surge Time
With spectacular scenery and spectacular crowds, how do you manage the people—yet protect the natural beauty—at Grand Canyon National Park?
By Jonathan Lerner

106 Industrial Evolution
A tough New Jersey town has a landscape that mirrors its history. Now a new National Park Service plan merges the two.
By Tom Stoelker

124 Hit Delete
The Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park is based on numerous takeaways, so to speak.
By Philip Walsh

138 Wild Rides
A National Park Service historian, Timothy Davis, tells the stories of his favorite park roads.
By Maggie Zackowitz

THE BACK

150 Vanishing Act
Burning Man, Nevada’s trippy desert festival, cleans up well.
By Adam Mandelman

156 Books
The Taking Places
A review of Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America, by Felipe Correa.
By Nate Millington

180 Display Ad Index

181 Buyer’s guide Index

192 Backstory
The View Up North
A new book on landscape architecture in Canada fills a continental gap.
By Jennifer Reut

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