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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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AUGUST 2018

10 Inside

12 Land Matter

FOREGROUND

16 Now
Copley Wolff’s net-zero-energy design for San Francisco State University; tracking topsoil with help from NASA; elevated streets that keep Miami Beach above water; fast-evolving Caribbean lizards; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

36 Water
Lots of Opportunity
PUSH Blue helps Great Lakes communities manage their stormwater with rain gardens, playgrounds, and greenhouses created on vacant parcels.
By Lisa Owens Viani

46 Preservation
The Finer Fabric
A historic Tucson neighborhood is making an inventory of the street details, big and small, that make it singular.
By Kevan Klosterwill

58 Tech
Tooling Up
Digital work flows for CNC fabrication are coming out of the studio and into practice.
By Sarah Cowles

68 Goods
Make a Splash
Hot weather landscapes are better and wetter with sprays, nozzles, fountains, and an artificial waterfall.

FEATURES

74 Democratic Void
Zurich’s vast public square, Sechseläutenplatz, opened in 2014. Now the city’s residents must decide how (and how often) they want to use it.
By Jessica Bridger

86 Almost Wilderness, Maybe Forever
The 24,000-acre Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve on the California coast was bought—and protected—with the largest donation ever made to the Nature Conservancy.
By Jonathan Lerner

100 Made to Disappear 
Berger Partnership’s landscape for the Washington Fruit & Produce Company headquarters takes inspiration from Yakima Valley’s agricultural heritage.
By Timothy A. Schuler

THE BACK

122 Bay Forward
Rebuild by Design gets a Bay Area-based sequel as Resilient by Design seeks to address potential hazards before disaster strikes.
By Bradford McKee

136 Books
Understanding Manning
A review of Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner, edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.
By Christine G. O’Malley

156 Advertiser Index

157 Advertisers By Product Category

172 Backstory
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Design and Playmakes the case that the built environment is filled with opportunities for fun.
By Jennifer Reut

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