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
