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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

DECEMBER 2015

6 Land Matters

FOREGROUND

10 Now
Mayer-Reed and Snøhetta collaborate on a “master section” design for Willamette Falls in Oregon; Balmori Associates floats a new plant lab on the dirty Gowanus Canal; a new field guide focuses on Detroit’s vacant lots; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

28 Species
To the Aztecs, the armadillo was ayotochtli, or turtle-rabbit; plus, the power and pain behind sugarcane.
By Constance Casey

38 Interview
Field Recordings
Kurt Fristrup, a National Park Service scientist who heads its Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, talks about the recently released set of “sound maps” of the United States.
By Timothy A. Schuler

46 Tech
Get Real
New versions of immersive visualization tools promise to be cheaper and less likely to make you seasick while using them. If it lives up to the hype, virtual technology could completely change the public engagement process.
By Brian Barth

54 Ecology
The Ravine Keeper
As the guy in charge of protecting ravines and natural features for the city of Toronto, Norman DeFraeye, a landscape architect, has ecosystems on one side and developers and bureaucrats on the other.
By Brian Barth

66 Goods
Get Comfortable
For commodity and good looks, these outdoor pieces go leg to leg with anything indoors.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

76 Pardon His Progress
Dan Biederman, the mastermind behind Bryant Park’s rebirth, is expanding his development ideas to harder sites. But he’s bigger on programming than on landscape architecture.
By Fred A. Bernstein

82 The Serenity of Straight Lines
Hocker Design Group arranges a flat, carved landscape around a low-slung house in Texas.
By Jonathan Lerner

94 Change the Channel
The Mill River in Stamford, Connecticut, hasn’t been itself for centuries after being dammed and  channeled. OLIN’s team massages the life back into the riverbanks and opens acres of places for people to be close to the water.
By William S. Saunders

THE BACK

116 Planting Civil Rights
The activism behind planting urban trees has its roots in the civil rights movement, but the ideas behind it actually go back much further.
By Sonja Dümpelmann

128 Books
Modern Mosaic
A review of Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890–1940, edited by Therese O’Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
By Thaïsa Way, ASLA

232 Display Ad Index

233 Buyer’s guide Index

252 Backstory
Baked in Memory
An Italian artist memorializes a city destroyed by an earthquake.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

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