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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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JULY 2016

16 Inside

20 Land Matters

22 Letters

FOREGROUND

28 Now
A designer is studying microbial husbandry for toxic cleanup; new miniparks are dotting a stretch of road in Mesa, Arizona; innovative ideas for play spaces emerge from a Philadelphia competition; the U.S. Virgin Islands lurches toward a climate change plan; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

48 Species
The honeyguide practices an aggressive method of surrogacy for its young; plus, rooibos, a beverage craze that threatens precious South African ecology.
By Constance Casey

56 Interview
Wild Times
Margie Ruddick and Thomas Rainer, ASLA, talk about their new books on wild design.
By Bradford McKee

64 Tech
Follow the Script
Computational logic and coding have become enmeshed in design, making new ways to see what landscape architecture can be.
By Chris Bentley

74 Goods
Watered Down
Summer is all about getting moisture where it’s needed most­­.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

84 The Big Sprig
The Rose Kennedy Greenway has been a long time coming, and faced a lot of criticism. Now it’s growing on Bostonians.
By Mark Hough, FASLA

104 Driving Concern
The Croton Water Filtration Plant is New York’s largest ever public works project. Atop it sits the Mosholu driving range—perhaps the nation’s largest contiguous green roof. The problems getting them built have also been outsized.
By Alex Ulam

120 A Course in Change
A conversation with Anthony Acciavatti about the Ganges River in northern India, a sacred site whose edges are in constant motion.
By Brian Davis

134 Where Roberto Burle Marx Belongs
An exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum goes beyond the landscape architecture of the Brazilian master.
By Fred A. Bernstein

THE BACK

146 Your Park, Their Address
There are opportunities for landscape architects to design places that deal more humanely with homeless populations.
By Rebecca Leonard, ASLA

154 Books
So It Flows
A review of Landscape as Urbanism by Charles Waldheim.
By Julian Raxworthy

182 Display Ad Index

183 Buyer’s guide Index

196 Backstory
On the Outside
A new film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, reveals the prison system’s hidden role in shaping cities.
By Jennifer Reut

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