32 Land Matters
38 Letters
FOREGROUND
46 Now
Water fountains used to be everywhere but are no more; a public–private collaboration ensures seeds for landscape rehab; urban stormwater strategies are handicapped by a lack of common language; environmental justice feeds into the EPA’s new Clean Power Plan; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler
70 Species
With boas, it’s not your breathing that stops; plus, lichens: two organisms for the price of one!
By Constance Casey
80 Interview
Where the Water Will Be
The writer Peter Annin talks about a relatively young compact to protect the Great Lakes, which is facing its first legal challenge and surely not its last.
By Jennifer Reut
86 House Call
Outside Looking In
Coen + Partners’ courtyard landscape for a new house in Chicago’s Wicker Park pushes the limits of rules about a property’s exposure.
By Camille Lefevre
100 Goods
A Place to Park
These bike racks are secure and sexy.
By Lisa Speckhardt
FEATURES
112 The Connector
Designing for equity in post-Katrina New Orleans means knowing when to make do and when to push. Diane Jones Allen, ASLA, is skilled at both.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA
122 Street Theater
In St. Louis, the new Public Media Commons creates a home for art and free expression.
By Bradford McKee
132 We Got fun. and Foam.
The frenetic playscape of Maggie Daley Park has already gained legions of small fans, but the way it holds to the parking garage below is a spectacle all its own.
By Timothy A. Schuler
150 Deep Cut
A storied quarry in a working-class neighborhood of Chicago has become a park with an edge.
By Zach Mortice
164 The Bison Begin Again
The stewards of a prairie restoration in Illinois are counting on reintroduced bison to establish its ecological balance.
By Timothy A. Schuler
THE BACK
192 Landslide 2015
Where the Wild Plants Are
The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Landslide campaign celebrates the designs of Oehme, van Sweden.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA
200 Books
Modernism’s Missing
A review of Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture, edited by Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley.
By Caroline Constant
208 ASLA Continuing Education
Suburban Street Stormwater Retrofitting
234 Display Ad Index
236 Buyer’s guide Index
252 Backstory
Another View
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art looks at landscape painting of the Americas.
By Jennifer Reut
