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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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DECEMBER 2019

12 Inside

14 Land Matters

FOREGROUND

18 Now
A possible paradox between trees and air quality; an Aboriginal aquascape gains recognition in Australia; dunes on an Amsterdam roof; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

36 Tech
Bona Fide BIM
Legal considerations regarding liability and ownership of intellectual property are emerging for firms that use Building Information Modeling.
By Aidan Ackerman, ASLA

46 Parks
Steel and Sand
On Lake Michigan, the newly designated Indiana Dunes National Park thrives on a plan by JJR (now SmithGroup) that balances a rich shoreline ecology and the toxic footprint of industry.
By Jeff Link

58 Goods
Screen Time
Tech-enabled shortcuts that support life out in the open.
By Emily Cox

FEATURES

64 The Water You Can’t See
On the Duke University campus, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects turned a water conservation project into a mesmerizing mirror of a pond, surrounded by plantings that show the clear stamp of Warren T. Byrd Jr., FASLA.
By Kofi Boone, ASLA

82 On the Edge
The city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, has made a new pact with its surrounding waters, one that its people overwhelmingly love.
By Jimena Martignoni

THE BACK

100 Better Red
You could look at Vienna’s generous public spaces among its subsidized housing developments and accuse the city of socialism. The city would plead gloriously guilty.
By Michael Fitzpatrick

114 Books
Foodtopia
A review of Flourishing Foodscapes: Designing City-Region Food Systems, by Johannes S. C. Wiskerke and Saline Verhoeven.
By Michael A. Sanchez

220 Advertiser Index

221 Advertisers by Product Category

228 Backstory
Escape Hatches
Lonely? Find a street tree to talk to—silently.
By Jonathan Lerner

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