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Landscape Architecture Magazine

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SEPTEMBER 2015

10 Land Matters

FOREGROUND

14 Now
Louisville activists make progress on a new botanical garden; a mock-up water utility tests contamination scenarios; Ireland embarks on a national strategy for its landscape; the southern United States will be an increasingly hot spot to live; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

36 Species
For all the peacock’s plumage, it’s not clear what the peahen sees in him; plus, the power of quinoa, up from poor soils.
By Constance Casey

44 Tech
Tell Us
Two new contributing editors to LAM want your views on technologies evolving across the realm of landscape architecture practice.
By Daniel Tal, ASLA, and Ryan Deane, ASLA

46 Planning
Graveyard Shift
Big city cemeteries aren’t taking care of themselves. Austin has a master plan for five municipal sites, for which it faces a multitude of expectations.
By Timothy A. Schuler

62 Practice
In the Weeds
Future Green Studio embraces the plants no one wants.
By Nate Berg

74 Water
Keep It Up
In Norway, Atelier Dreiseitl relied on local knowledge to help shape two urban projects. The design is at the mercy of the maintenance.
By Tim Waterman

86 Goods
Good Fences
Divide spaces with style.
By Lisa Speckhardt

FEATURES

96 The Distance Future
The Academy of Art University, a for-profit school in San Francisco, has begun offering online degrees in landscape architecture. It would like to have them accredited, but no precedent exists.
By Lydia Lee

102 What to Listen For
There is a growing hunger and sophistication among landscape architecture students about environmental justice and action. But without community engagement and diversity in its own ranks, it will be hard for the profession to keep up with the headlines.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

108 Five Fourths, Four Fifths
The pressure is on for five-year bachelor of landscape architecture programs to become four-year programs.
By Kevan Williams

112 Learning Curves
A new public realm plan by PFS Studio rejuvenates the Beaux-Arts campus plan of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
By John King, Honorary ASLA

THE BACK

138 Bound Together
A lavish new book of maps prompts readers to make connections.
By Jennifer Reut

146 The Crisis of Context
M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, is getting the 2015 ASLA Medal. So why the rush to destroy his work?
By Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA

154 Books
From Lab to Landscape
A review of Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design, by Kate Kennen and Niall Kirkwood.
By Laura Solano, ASLA

180 Display Ad Index

181 Buyer’s Guide Index

192 Backstory
Produce Isle
Maria Muñoz, Student ASLA, is mapping food networks in Puerto Rico as part of her Olmsted scholarship.
By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

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