Tag Archives: Washington

Get Ready to Respond

$1 billion in funding to reconnect divided communities is coming.

By Zach Mortice

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, streetscape design, greenway planning, and especially those projects that seek to address incidences of transit infrastructure exacerbating existing economic and demographic inequalities. Continue reading Get Ready to Respond

Art Director’s Cut: Soldier Stories

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.

 

Home Away from No Home

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.

By Jonathan Lerner

Blue tarps, reminiscent of refugee crises, announce the presence of unsanctioned encampments. Photo by Brice Maryman, ASLA.

One morning last March, Brice Maryman, ASLA, walked to his downtown Seattle office at MIG|SvR through linear parkland that hugs Interstate 90. Maryman recently completed a Landscape Architecture Foundation fellowship to explore the intersection of homelessness and public space; one result is his podcast HomeLandLab. Now he wanted to check on some encampments. Continue reading Home Away from No Home