40 Letters
FOREGROUND
48 Now
The 2014 Rosa Barba Prize for Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s Auckland waterfront; a competition to replenish lands around the lower Mississippi River; an ag school in the city; and more.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, ASLA
66 Species
Harder times are here for the elegant moose; plus, anise, a sweetener of breads and breath.
By Constance Casey
76 Interview
The Religion of Resilience
Reid Fellenbaum’s project, Meridian of Fertility, won a top ASLA Student Award this year. The project is in his genes, and by 2080 may not be as fantastical as it looks now.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
82 Food
The Bounty of the Boroughs
In New York, the Five Borough Farm project is helping to quantify what goes into and out of the huge network of farms and food gardens across the city.
By Melanie Rehak
90 House Call
Acadia Remade
After a near wipeout in a storm, a rare private property within Acadia National Park now has a garden that only a native could give it.
By Jane Berger
102 Goods
In Transit
A bit of style for the commute.
By Lisa Speckhardt
FEATURES
116 Share the Wealth
At the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol makes amends for a lost bog.
By Betsy Anderson
130 Fire, Rain, Beetles, and Us
One recent catastrophe after another has hit the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and they are scarcely unconnected.
By Carol E. Becker
140 Fluid Boundaries
Fred Phillips, ASLA, has unusual collaborators in re-creating the riparian landscape of the lower Colorado River: Homeland Security.
By Jonathan Lerner
156 Among Giants: Guy Sternberg, Oak Guru
A private arboretum in Illinois holds intelligence about trees that top naturalists covet.
By Jayson DeGeeter, ASLA
166 Detroit from the Ground Up
The city finds its feet thanks in large part to a landscape-driven plan.
By Jennifer Reut
178 Below the Surface
At the beginning and the end of the transborder tar sands oil trade.
By Daniel Grossman
Photography by Alex S. MacLean
THE BACK
202 Landslide 2014
Out in the Open
This year’s Landslide campaign from the Cultural Landscape Foundation calls for saving site-specific art, from antiquity and from very recent times.
218 Books
A Poet and Pragmatist
A review of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, by Susan Herrington.
By Brian Barth, Affiliate ASLA
256 Display Ad Index
258 Buyer’s Guide Index
272 Backstory
Beyond the Village
A Peace Corps volunteer brings landscape architecture to the Horn of Africa.
By Andrew Tadross
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