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Landscape Architecture Magazine

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects

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OCTOBER 2018

24 Inside

26 Land Matters

34 Letters

FOREGROUND

44 Now
Four hundred whips bring a Jose Luis Borges story to life; Future Landscape Architects of America creates winning lesson plans; Sasaki drives research into AVs and street design; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

68 Travels
All Over the Place (Almost)
Where the projects are (and aren’t) that appeared in the magazine in the past year.
By Jennifer Reut

70 Office
Brand New
Rebranding your practice—large or small—involves more than just changing your name.
By Wendy Gilmartin

82 Water
Fuller Blast
The redesigned fountains at Longwood Gardens reinvent a crumbling relic with cutting-edge infrastructure.
By Kim O’Connell

94 Food
Concrete Crops
In Philadelphia’s Center City, Thomas Paine Plaza takes on new life as a mini-farm.
By Jared Brey

102 Planning
Step by Step by Step
Everybody takes the stairs in Pittsburgh.
By Lesley Perez, Associate ASLA

114 Goods
More on the Floor
Check out these new products from ASLA EXPO exhibitors in Philadelphia this month.

FEATURES

122 Where the Water Was
Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA, has made West Philadelphia—and the water that flows beneath it—a life’s work.
By Anne Raver

140 Hydro Power
MKSK makes public space out of river infill in Columbus, Ohio, drawing a whole new generation downtown.
By Jonathan Lerner

158 Science to Design
Biohabitats’s mission is nothing less than healing the Earth.
By Kim O’Connell

172 Lower Here, Higher There
The Belgian landscape designer Erik Dhont creates modern gardens inspired by the minds of the Old Masters.
By Michael Dumiak

THE BACK

194 On Brazil’s Behalf
Roberto Burle Marx helped define the celebration of Brazil’s wild landscapes as a kind of patriotism—even in times of political turmoil.
By Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA

210 Books
Many Stories Matter
A review of Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Beardsley.
By Kofi Boone, ASLA

236 Advertiser Index

238 Advertisers By Product Category

252 Backstory
With Nature, Without Delay
Reinventing the legacy of Ian McHarg in an age of climate change.
By Jennifer Reut

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