Landscape architects are ingrained systems thinkers and experts on how to balance infrastructure and the ecological imperatives of climate change, all while improving transit networks that bind people together. Significant portions of the more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill that became law late last year will be filtering down to communities, and landscape architects bring experience and expertise to these types of projects, including the removal of highways,streetscapedesign,greenwayplanning, and especially those projects that seek to address incidences of transit infrastructure exacerbating existing economic and demographic inequalities.Continue reading Get Ready to Respond→
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
“Long shadows along the National Native American Veterans Memorial in D.C.”
–Chris McGee, Art Director
Photo by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA.
From “Soldier Stories” by Kim O’Connell, photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy in the June 2021 issue, about three veterans memorials in Washington, D.C., that find new ways to connect to the city.
Landscape architects can’t solve homelessness with just design. As Brice Maryman, ASLA, is finding, they have to grasp the phenomenon—and are only beginning.
