10 Inside
12 Land Matters
FOREGROUND
16 Now
Finding greatness in tree grates; gondolas on the rise; a new home for the International Landscape Lighting Institute; the best plants for the Pacific Northwest; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
38 Interview
Urban Scanner
Shannon Mattern’s book, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media, uncovers the way information has shaped our cities.
By Jennifer Reut
46 Parks
The Hole Story
Hornsby Quarry in New South Wales was thought too big to fill and too unsafe to leave open. Now it could be a park.
By Carol E. Becker
58 Plants
Palms Out
Palm trees may be iconic of Miami or Los Angeles, but they can thrive in more—and colder—places than you may think.
By Jane Berger
70 Goods
Love at First Light
Sconces, pendants, fixtures, and other brightening ideas can illuminate the way.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
FEATURES
80 The Old and the Neutral
In New Orleans, Hargreaves Associates weaves the hopeful future into the industrial past in Crescent Park.
By John King, Honorary ASLA
96 Two London Squares and a Theory of the Beige Hole
Sleek, tidy, generic: a critique of Fitzroy Place and Rathbone Square, two privately owned public spaces in London’s West End.
By Tim Waterman
110 Balancing Act
In a wetter world, how do we weigh the need to adapt to the future against the imperative to preserve the past?
By Timothy A. Schuler
THE BACK
126 The Freedom of Weeds
The artist Lise Duclaux’s Brooklyn exhibit has deep roots.
By Tom Stoelker
136 Books
Dreams and Regrets
A review of Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America,by Victor Gruen, edited and translated by Anette Baldauf.
By Kelly Comras, FASLA
158 Advertiser Index
159 Advertisers by Product Category
172 Backstory
Tower Power
In Victoria, Australia, a trail connects grain silos painted with murals that nod to the region’s agricultural history.
By Gweneth Leigh, ASLA
