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Landscape Architecture Magazine

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OCTOBER 2017

24 Inside

26 Land Matters

34 Letters

FOREGROUND

42 Now
The upside of downtown vacant lots; an asphalt coating to cool hot roads; the reSite gathering in Prague; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

66 Interview
All Landscape Is Local
Glen Dake, ASLA, of DakeLuna Consultants applies what he’s learned about community and resilience in a public-minded practice.
By Wendy Gilmartin

72 Plants
Growing Obsession
London’s Garden Museum celebrates Great Britain’s passion for plants.
By Tim Waterman

84 Planning
Smartphone Landscape
Restoring Indonesian land fouled by tin mining is a humbling task, but Fred Phillips has a plan.
By Brian Barth

100 Palette
Play It as It Layers
The designs of Pamela Burton, FASLA, are all about the subtle complexities.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

116 Goods
See You at EXPO
Test drive a graffiti-proof bar stool, secure some new bike lockers, and more at this year’s ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Los Angeles.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

FEATURES

132 Third Way L.A.
The architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne ponders the next, and future, Los Angeles.
By Tom Carson

144 Fan Favorite
With three projects under way in the region, Studio-MLA has become the unofficial stadium landscape architect of Los Angeles.
By Nate Berg

158 Altered State
The imminent legality of recreational marijuana in California is already leaving its mark on the state’s land.
By Mimi Zeiger

166 The Final Hill
GLS Landscape | Architecture is connecting a redeveloping public-housing project on Potrero Hill to the rest of a gentrified San Francisco, without displacing a single resident.
By Zach Mortice

180 Salt Ponds to Pickleweed
The salt industry has long dominated South San Francisco Bay. Over the past decade, AECOM and a team of scientists have been returning its waters to fish, shrimp, and the snowy plover.
By Lisa Owens Viani

THE BACK

202 THE 2017 ASLA Landmark Award
Trails of Trees: The J. Paul Getty Center Turns 20
After 20 years, this Los Angeles landscape has seasoned beautifully.
By Kelly Comras, ASLA 

218 Books
Problem Not Solved, But Not a Problem
A review of Landscape as Infrastructure, by Pierre Bélanger.
By Gale Fulton, ASLA

252 Advertiser Index

254 Advertisers by Product Category

268 Backstory
Black Design Matters
Harvard students focus on design activism that goes beyond a call to action.
By Jennifer Reut

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