12 Inside
16 Land Matters
18 Letters
FOREGROUND
24 Now
NUVIS brings a new wave of land art at Owens Lake in California; an educator plumbs the hidden sand dunes beneath Chicago’s lakefront; a potentially easier way emerges to model wildlife corridors; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
44 Interview
Underneath, Overlooked
The head of the Design Trust for Public Space, Susan Chin, Honorary ASLA, describes efforts to reanimate neglected spaces around New York City’s elevated roads and rails.
By Zach Mortice
50 Palette
Estuarine Serene
The gardens of Campion Hruby Landscape Architects in Maryland, large or small, take their material inspiration from the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
64 Goods
Light the Fire
A warm glow comes in many guises.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION: OVER & UNDER
74 Goodbye Highways
Half a century of urban wounds left by highways is prompting attempts to put cities back together.
By Nate Berg
82 The Seven-Foot Sandwich
At Hudson Yards in New York, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is creating a complex base on which to build a new mini-city.
By Alex Ulam
102 Low Overhead
In Toronto, PFS Studio makes a smash hit in Underpass Park.
By Jane Margolies
116 City, Heal Thyself
Land in Washington, D.C., has become too scarce to waste, which is why soon you won’t even know a highway trench near the U.S. Capitol ever existed.
By Braulio Agnese
130 Layers of Players
Margie Ruddick Landscape accomplished a lot beneath the rails and roads of Queens Plaza in New York—at least what the bureaucracy would allow.
By Julie Lasky
144 The Lid Comes On
Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, by OJB Landscape Architecture, has covered a highway gash and brought out people in droves.
By Jonathan Lerner
THE BACK
160 The Garden of Stupidity
On Gustave Flaubert’s botanical busybodies.
By Jane Gillette
170 Books
Flooded with Ideas A review of Waterproofing New York, edited by Denise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson.
By Thaïsa Way, ASLA
190 Advertiser Index
191 Advertisers by product category
200 Backstory
Big Picture
A new landscape atlas of Texas digs deep.
By Jennifer Reut
