12 Inside
16 Land Matters
18 Letters
FOREGROUND
24 Now
Students investigate creatures as fellow designers; a Baltimore development yields dividends for a local school; social media hijacks a park design for the better; the Doomsday seed bank opens to save Syrian crops; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
48 Ecology
The Upside of a Die-Off
When a Houston park’s tree canopy began to perish after a multiyear drought, an opportunity emerged to rebuild a better urban forest.
By Allyn West
60 Energy
The Art of Infrastructure
Solar panels and wind turbines aren’t known for great design, but new research on landscape aesthetics and renewables could help change that.
By Timothy A. Schuler
72 Goods
Safe and Sound
Design elements to provide a sense of security.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
FEATURES
84 Start Your Engines
Think you have what it takes to start your own design firm? You’re probably right.
By Kevan Williams
98 Pedal Harder
Two wheels, one objective: Steve Durrant, FASLA, is on a mission to design better bicycle infrastructure.
By Fred A. Bernstein
110 Walking the Walk
Fifteen years and two mayors in the making, Sasaki’s Riverwalk along the Chicago River delivers public good with glamour.
By Jane Margolies
THE BACK
136 Another View
Long-neglected photographs of the eastern United States come into focus in a pioneering show at the National Gallery of Art.
By Jennifer Reut
148 Books
Still on the Trail
A review of On the Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chamberlin.
By Betsy Anderson, Associate ASLA
170 Advertiser Index
171 Advertisers by product category
180 Backstory
Cross Roads
Finding landscape connectivity for animals as well as people on a former du Pont estate.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA