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
