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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

AUGUST 2017

14 Inside

16 Letters

18 Land Matters

FOREGROUND

22 Now
Oklahoma City works on walkability; Britain’s Anglo-Saxon place-names point to water; scientists focus on protecting trees’ genetic diversity; Milwaukee gets Sloshed; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

38 Tech
BIM There, Done That
Meghen Quinn, ASLA, is co-opting architectural software to make it work for landscape architecture.
By Brian Barth

52 Office
Getting Paid
Principals of three firms discuss their strategies for receiving receivables promptly.
By Wendy Gilmartin

62 Minds
Traces of Self-Exile
A new biography gives the iconoclastic landscape architect James Rose his due.
By Mimi Zeiger

70 Goods
In Motion
For bike or bus travel, these transit products improve the commute.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

82 Wrong Side of the River
The design brief for the Southbridge neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware: Stack a new wetlands park on a brownfield laced with immovable electrical infrastructure. And make it floodable.
By Jonathan Lerner

98 Ears to the Ground
Between Iowa and South Dakota lies an indigenous peoples’ landscape of mythic importance known as Blood Run. Brenda Williams, ASLA, is helping to make a bistate park with a lot of work—and as much receptiveness.
By Timothy A. Schuler

120 Game On
Jesse Owens ran and Jimi Hendrix played here. Then Randall’s Island fell into disrepair. Now it’s been transformed into New York City’s sports and recreation hub.
By Jane Margolies

THE BACK

146 Halprin on the Anacostia
Lawrence Halprin’s unbuilt 1960s designs to beautify Washington, D.C.’s “second river” still resonate.
By Jeanne Haffner

154 Books
Go There
A review of Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary, by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim.
By Sarah Cowles

180 Advertiser Index

181 Advertisers by Product Category

192 Backstory
The Ebb of Floes
The artist Zaria Forman captures the poignance of dying icebergs in Antarctica.
By Lauren Mandel, ASLA

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