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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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JANUARY 2017

10 Inside

12 Land Matters

14 Letters

FOREGROUND

22 Now
Michelle Obama’s White House garden gets an upgrade; students plan for new energy economies in Utah; Mathews Nielsen restores the grounds of New York’s Ground Zero church; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

42 Office
Sharing is Wearing
Leaders at three firms talk about the ways they use collaboration software.
By Wendy Gilmartin

48 Water
Second Chances
Sasaki provides paths toward resilience for flood-prone Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By Zach Mortice

56 Tech
Infinite Mapping
Affordable 3-D scanning technology is giving landscape architects finer-grained ways to look at their work.
By Brian Barth

66 Goods
Fencing Practice
Railings, walls, and fences can keep things (attractively) under control.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

72 Permafrost Urbanists
As climate change makes the far north more accessible, settlements on Norway’s Svalbarg archipelago may help us understand something new: bustling Arctic cities.
By Jessica Bridger

88 It’s About Time
In the Catalonian city of Girona, Martí Franch is transforming green infrastructure with genius temporum.
By Tim Waterman

104 Desert Bloom
Landscape architecture led the way in Ten Eyck Landscape Architects’ redesign of the University of Texas at El Paso campus.
By Mark Hough, FASLA

THE BACK

126 The Art of Inquiry, Manifestation, and Enactment
For decades, Helen and Newton Harrison have taken eco-art to the streets, where their work is a call to action.
By Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA

136 Books
Through the Hourglass
A review of The Course of Landscape Architecture: A History of Our Designs on the Natural World, From Prehistory to the Present, by Christophe Girot.
By Julia Czerniak

154 Advertiser Index

155 Advertisers by Product Category

164 Backstory
A Growing Need
If you like plants, A Botanist’s Vocabulary has a few words for you.
By Jennifer Reut

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