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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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OCTOBER 2016

22 Inside

24 Land Matters

32 Feedback

FOREGROUND

42 Now
A feature-driven search tool for satellite imagery; turning to YouTube to find out how teens use public space; reconstructing a sacred peak; how moss is helping detect heavy metals; and more.
Edited By Timothy A. Schuler

66 Ideas
Open Invitation
The “DIY environmental science community” known as Public Lab is bringing environmental justice to the people.
By Jennifer Reut

76 Planning
Water All Over Again
Though faced with the immediate problem of flooding in its hometown, Baton Rouge’s nonprofit Center for Planning Excellence is playing the long game for Louisiana land use.
By Bradford McKee

86 Office
Life and Limb
Principals of four firms talk risk management.
By Wendy Gilmartin

100 Goods
This One’s on Us
The offerings from this year’s ASLA EXPO exhibitors are all over the map—and even the (play structure) globe.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

110 New Orleans Owns Its Water
New infrastructure plans would turn the city’s water from a handicap to a defining asset.
By Elizabeth Mossop, ASLA

120 Grounded
New Orleans’s Future Ground design competition elicited fresh approaches to dealing with vacant land. And then it stopped there.
By Timothy A. Schuler

132 Let’s Beat It
As the waters rise around Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles, Evans + Lighter Landscape Architecture helps the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe find a new place to live.
By Brian Barth

152 Catch of the day
The artist and landscape architect Forbes Lipschitz, ASLA, finds ecological wealth in the catfish farm landscapes of the Mississippi Delta.
By Brett Anderson

170 Homing Instincts
Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA, refines the sensations of the Louisiana landscape.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

THE BACK

196 Architecture Alone
The 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale issued a challenge to address global problems, but designers barely left their own envelope.
By Thaïsa Way, ASLA

212 Books
Digital Dividends
A review of Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising Design and Making by Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann.
By Gale Fulton, ASLA

252 Display Ad Index

254 Buyer’s guide Index

268 Backstory
Before the Flood
Climate Chronograph proposes a different kind of monument for Washington, D.C.
By Zach Mortice

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