8 Land Matters
10 Letters
FOREGROUND
18 Now
The added genius that landscape architects are bringing to wastewater treatment; the Historic American Landscapes Survey needs help; heating peat to see what happens; creative parks funding in the UK; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
36 Species
The avocado lost its longtime means of dispersal, though humans have work-arounds; plus, the borer that is now stalking the avocado crop in the United States.
By Constance Casey
48 Interview
A World Underground
Gwen McGinn, Associate ASLA, a 2015 Student ASLA Award winner for Research, finds a void in knowledge about tree roots in urban environments.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
54 Office
Got the Job
Principals of three different types of firms describe what kinds of people they’re looking to hire, and why.
By Jennifer Reut
60 Goods
Now That’s Hot
Outdoor fire fixtures to keep things toasty.
By Lisa Speckhardt
FEATURES
70 Peak Condo
Inside a swish San Francisco housing block, Fletcher Studio designed a series of gardens as a journey to the summit.
By Lydia Lee
82 The Next Meal
A richly grained plan for Fayetteville, Arkansas, promotes food security in an affluent region where people nonetheless go hungry.
By Lauren Mandel, ASLA
98 Ephemera, Here to Stay
Time has put numerous guises on a historic square in Pittsburgh where Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture has made a poetic new park.
By Tom Stoelker
110 The Mostest American Treasures
This year is the centenary of the National Park Service, which ASLA had a big hand in planning. We’re starting off with some gorgeous extremes.
THE BACK
120 The Metasequoia Mystery
In some scientific quarters, the story of the discoverers of living Metasequoia in China in the 1940s is not always fully told, for “dishonorable” reasons.
By Kyna Rubin
128 Books
Assess Your Shelving
Nine new landscape books to help run out the clock on winter.
140 Display Ad Index
141 Buyer’s Guide Index
152 Backstory
Desert Lights
Bruce Munro has made a vascular network of lights across the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
