12 Inside
14 Land Matters
16 Letters
FOREGROUND
22 Now
A stormwater system doubles as public space in Minneapolis; Laguna Beach, California, wins historic landscape designation; start-ups look for water leaks; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
46 Office
In Search Of
Principals of four firms discuss their recruitment practices.
By Wendy Gilmartin
56 Materials
Tame the Sun
The job of reducing urban heat adds layers to complex paving specifications.
By Trent Okumura, ASLA, and Michael Todoran
66 Parks
Yonkers Uncorked
At Mill Street Courtyard, Edgewater Design oversees the daylighting of the Saw Mill River in downtown Yonkers, New York.
By Jane Margolies
78 Goods
Sun or Shade
Take cover under parasols, cabanas, and roof systems.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
FEATURES
88 The Wharf at Work
At the North Wharf Promenade and Silo Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Wraight + Associates and Taylor Cullity Lethlean let industry carry on, with pleasure as its new companion.
By Gweneth Leigh, ASLA
106 Ecology on Autopilot
Bradley Cantrell, ASLA; Laura Martin; and Erle Ellis have recently explored ways that artificial intelligence could promote wildness. In a roving conversation, Kristina Hill queries their assumptions.
120 A Thousand Moving Parts
The public is embracing the Atlanta BeltLine, but the idea still has to prove it can tie the region’s communities together.
By Jonathan Lerner
THE BACK
138 Can We Get to Zero?
If landscape architecture is to observe the terms of the Paris Agreement, it will have to survive on no carbon emissions. None.
By Steve Austin, ASLA
144 Books
Getting from Here to There
A review of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment, by Jesse LeCavalier, and Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Our Cities, by Clare Lyster.
By Gale Fulton, ASLA
172 Advertiser Index
173 Advertisers by Product Category
184 Backstory
The Peters Principle
Boston’s public schools are projecting a more equitable way to look at the world.
By Maggie Zackowitz
