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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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MAY 2017

12 Inside

16 Land Matters

18 Letters

FOREGROUND

24 Now
A floating landscape for a hospital in Los Angeles; Tulane’s nitrogen reduction challenge; palm tree protests in Milan’s Duomo plaza; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

44 Materials
Color and Cushion
Rubber surfacing gives a bounce to the playground at Chicago’s Mary Bartelme Park.
By Jeff Link

56 Palette
The Right Fit
Sandra Clinton, FASLA, works both science and aesthetics into her landscapes.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

70 Goods
Light the Way
Path lights, spots, standards, and bollards for a variety of settings.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

80 Control of the Canopy
The office of Landscape Architects of Bangkok has made a tiny but rich forest in the sprawl of the Thai capital.
By James Trulove

102 Along for the Ride
Once a tangle, Tylee Farm is becoming a landscape of Texas transitions in the hands of Studio Outside.
By Anne Raver

122 Side Pocket
This month Paley Park turns 50 years old. It wears its age well, mostly.
By Fred A. Bernstein

THE BACK

132 High Fidelity
Drone mapping is reorienting designers’ relationship to the aerial view.
By Karl Kullmann

142 Books
Urban Design and Utopian Belief
A review of City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning by Michael J. Lewis.
By Jane Gillette

168 Advertiser Index

169 Advertisers by product category

180 Backstory
Seismic Matters
USGS earthquake forecast maps are shaking things up, especially in Oklahoma.
By Maggie Zackowitz

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