ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JANUARY 19
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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19-01-2021 21:58
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FIRE AT THE DOORSTEP
INTERVIEW BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
A series of maps of the Santa Monica Mountains explores the relationship between topography, ecology, historic wildfir...
14-01-2021 21:45
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MAKING THE BEST OF THE LEAST
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
On a cramped site, Superjacent conjures a forest and one of L.A.?s first shared streets.
FROM THE JANUARY 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAP...
05-01-2021 21:44
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JANUARY LAM: NETWORK CONNECTIONS
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FOREGROUND
A Resilient Renewal (Maintenance)
After Hurricane Sandy upended a planned redesign, Joanna Pertz Landscape ...
04-01-2021 21:46
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FIRST ON THE GROUND
BY ZACH MORTICE
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22-12-2020 21:43
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THE DARK SIDE OF LIGHT
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHU...
17-12-2020 21:47
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RECOVERING, AGAIN
TEXT BY MIMI ZEIGER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHAD RESS
Santa Ana River Mainstem, Chino, California.
Although deadpan in composition, Ress?s photographs reveal...
15-12-2020 21:48
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PAINED PLAZA
BY JARED BREY
The plaza forms the podium of the Municipal Services Building and hosts public art such as Jacques Lipchitz?s Government of the People, ...
10-12-2020 21:46
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COPYCATS WANTED
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
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08-12-2020 21:44
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SUPERNATURAL
BY PATRICK SISSON
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03-12-2020 21:49
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DECEMBER LAM: IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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FOREGROUND
Pained Plaza (Planning)
Three public spaces from midcentury Philadelphia have been earmarked for reinvention. Two...
01-12-2020 21:42
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THE EMERGENT EPITAPH
BY ZACH MORTICE
called St. Marcus Commemorative Park) in 1977 after bankruptcy and years of neglect, but only families that paid for perpetual care or...
24-11-2020 21:42
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A COLLECTIVE FOR THE CULTURE
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
19-11-2020 21:48
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AWARDS FOCUS: PEAS AND CARROTS PATHWAYS
This fall, LAM will be highlighting professional and student winners from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from th...
17-11-2020 21:45
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THE SCRIPTED SURFACE
BY JESSICA CANFIELD, ASLA
Parameters within the script can be easily modified to generate alternatives. Image courtesy DAVID RUBIN Land Collective.
Th...
10-11-2020 21:49
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DISMANTLING THE DESIGN SYLLABUS
BY ZACH MORTICE
distributing guides on anti-racist pedagogy and mandating classes on anti-Black racism.
But many landscape architecture programs are p...
06-11-2020 21:48
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SCHOOL IN SEASON
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
A total of 21 volunteers worked with teachers and administrators to create plans for Portland?s 15 public schools. Image courtes...
03-11-2020 21:44
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NOVEMBER LAM: WHAT WAS HIDDEN
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FOREGROUND
The Scripted Surface (Tech)
For a complex paving pattern that was less of a chore to design, DAVID RUBIN Land Coll...
02-11-2020 21:46
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TO THE CORE
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29-10-2020 21:47
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A WAY OF WALKING
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHERINE JENKINS
The meadow and adjacent cornfield at dusk in July 2020.
And yet, spending time outside has never felt more c...
27-10-2020 21:48
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AMERICAN GOTHIC 2.0
BY PATRICK SISSON
The AppHarvest facility during construction in the summer of 2020. A key argument for this kind of concentrated, tech-heavy agricult...
22-10-2020 21:49
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AWARDS FOCUS: A WIDER AUDIENCE WITH WEBTOONS
This fall, LAM will be highlighting professional and student winners from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from th...
20-10-2020 21:58
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A LAKE AND A LONG HISTORY
BY RACHEL DOVEY
A map of the Ohio & Erie Canal Summit Lake Trail. The area has a long history of racial segregation. Image courtesy the Ohio & Eerie C...
15-10-2020 21:50
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AWARDS FOCUS: INVESTIGATING PALUDICULTURE
This fall, LAM will be highlighting professional and student winners from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from th...
13-10-2020 21:50
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THE PLUS SIDE
BY LYDIA LEE
Once the data is input, the app calculates the number of years for the project to become carbon positive. Image courtesy CMG Landscape Ar...
08-10-2020 21:48
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, OCTOBER 6
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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06-10-2020 21:45
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OCTOBER LAM: DATA HARVEST
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FOREGROUND
Miami?s Next Wave (Water)
In Miami Beach, Savino & Miller wrangles with local regulations that are designed to pr...
01-10-2020 21:47
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AWARDS FOCUS: ALLEYWAYS AT THE CENTER OF PUBLIC LIFE
This fall, LAM will be highlighting professional and student winners from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from th...
29-09-2020 21:46
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AWARDS FOCUS: LAND USE FOR A RIVEN WEST BANK
This fall, LAM will be highlighting professional and student winners from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from th...
24-09-2020 21:41
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AWARDS FOCUS: TALKING TO COMMUNITIES ABOUT WILDFIRE
This fall, LAM will be highlighting winning projects from the 2020 ASLA Awards by asking designers to dive deep into one image from their winning proj...
22-09-2020 21:44
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GOAL: NOTHING FANCY
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
Though landscape improvements were minimal, the landscape architects played a pivotal role in planning for the building?s adapti...
17-09-2020 21:42
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TINKERING WITH A “TOTAL WORK”
BY ZACH MORTICE
The Hirshhorn’s long, rectilinear window looks out over the reflecting pool. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
In the proposed plan,...
15-09-2020 21:46
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MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
BY KAMILA GRIGO
Linear drains direct roof and sidewalk runoff into the rain gardens that line this neighborhood street in Copenhagen?s core. Photo by ...
10-09-2020 21:46
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DRAWN CONCLUSIONS
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
At the parcel scale, existing conditions are juxtaposed with more compatible land management practices, such as no-till farming....
08-09-2020 21:45
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SEPTEMBER LAM: THE 2020 ASLA AWARDS
here and share it with your clients, colleagues, and friends. You can also buy this issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine at more than 250 bookstor...
03-09-2020 21:44
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THE TWIN PANDEMICS
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
27-08-2020 22:11
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DISTANCE EARNING
BY ZACH MORTICE
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26-08-2020 22:13
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, AUGUST 20
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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20-08-2020 21:48
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18-08-2020 21:43
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, AUGUST 13
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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13-08-2020 21:44
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RAISE SOME GREEN
BY JARED BREY
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11-08-2020 21:41
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06-08-2020 21:41
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04-08-2020 21:44
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AUGUST LAM: EQUITY AND ACCESS
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FOREGROUND
Raise Some Green (Water)
With a $30 million investment, the City of Buffalo is joining a small group of ci...
03-08-2020 21:42
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FINAL TESTAMENT
BY ZACH MORTICE
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation?s first rural cemetery, the synthesis of pastoral and carefully plan...
30-07-2020 21:39
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LEASES TO DESTROY
BY KATHARINE LOGAN
Formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument, the valley?s Cedar Mesa Sandstone monoliths date back 250 million years. The Navajo,...
23-07-2020 21:43
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LAM WINS SIX EXCEL AWARDS
Landscape Architecture Magazine won six EXCEL Awards for association publishing last week. The Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Awards are hosted ...
21-07-2020 21:43
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SUPERFUND SLUMP
BY MADELINE BODIN
Piles of lead mining waste in Oklahoma captured by Nancy Goldenberg as a part of the photographer?s Tar Creek Superfund series. Phot...
16-07-2020 21:42
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CURBSIDE COLLECTOR
BY ZACH MORTICE
Sediment that flows along roadways often contains toxins and metals such as copper, zinc, cadmium, and grease. Image courtesy Halina S...
14-07-2020 21:42
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AFTER EXTRAORDINARY CONDITIONS
TEXT BY SARAH COWLES / PHOTOGRAPHY BY DINA OGANOVA
Georgian Orthodox parishioners line up on social distancing grids to worship in front of Tbilisi?s ...
07-07-2020 21:47
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JULY 2
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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02-07-2020 21:42
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JULY LAM: BETWEEN TWO CRISES
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FOREGROUND
Law in the Land (Interview)
The author and legal scholar Jedediah Purdy?s new book, This Land Is Our Land, si...
01-07-2020 21:40
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GROW YOUR OWN
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
30-06-2020 21:39
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ALL OURS
THE THEFT OF A HISTORIC SITE FOR FREE EXPRESSION CASTS LIGHT
ON THE VALUE OF PUBLIC SPACE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHA...
25-06-2020 21:40
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LAMCAST: KOFI BOONE ON BLM?S CHALLENGE TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITEC
The latest episode of the Landscape Architecture Podcast from Michael Todoran, ASLA, takes a small step toward addressing what the profession of land...
25-06-2020 21:40
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DISTANCE OVER TIME
BY ZACH MORTICE
A path separates a managed shrubland and a planted meadow. Photo by Larry Weaner, Affiliate ASLA.
In managing native meadows, Weaner s...
25-06-2020 21:40
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EVERYBODY IN
BY ZACH MORTICE
New York City Department of City Planning’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, and the Hunter’s Point South is a WEDG-verified waterfr...
25-06-2020 21:40
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BLACK LIVES MATTER. BLACK COMMUNITIES MATTER.
A mural of George Floyd, near the spot where he died while in police custody in Minneapolis. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.
Public spaces have always been ...
25-06-2020 21:40
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ENVELOPED IN AMERICAN GARDENS
BY ZACH MORTICE
The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. Image courtesy the U.S. Postal Service.
The 10 botanic, country estate, and municipal gard...
25-06-2020 21:40
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SIGNS OF UNREST
BY CHERMAINE LEE
Temporary barriers became a part of the Hong Kong streetscape after antigovernment protesters dismantled the existing metal fencing. ...
25-06-2020 21:40
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A SPRING OF SURPRISES
BY JARED BREY
Unable to perform some site visits, landscape architects are relying on updates from contractors. Image courtesy OLIN.
There?s no questi...
25-06-2020 21:40
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LAST REFUGES
BY ZACH MORTICE
The grounds of the Clark Art Institute. Image courtesy Clark Art Institute/Tucker Bair.
Smaller, potentially densely populated sculptu...
03-04-2020 21:53
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APRIL LAM: LANDSCAPE FOR LIFE
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FOREGROUND
The Bricks Are Back (Materials)
A beloved theater and public plaza are reimagined for accessibility and diversity....
01-04-2020 22:01
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IN PUBLIC: LONDON
BY TIM WATERMAN
Pelicans in St James?s Park. Photo by Tim Waterman.
What this holiday from other people?s holidays has shown us, though, is how hollow...
31-03-2020 21:58
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THE OFFICES: EVERYTHING CHANGES
BY BRADFORD MCKEE
With regular business upended by the novel coronavirus, landscape architecture principals plot, wait, and wonder.
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There was a mom...
28-03-2020 21:56
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In Public: Honolulu
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
Public drinking fountains were covered, and public facilities, such as bathrooms, were closed. Photo by Timothy A. Schuler.
It?s...
25-03-2020 22:01
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19-03-2020 21:55
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, MARCH 17
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
Photo by Michelle Wendling.
From “Tallgrass Rehab†in th...
17-03-2020 21:57
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THE THIN GREEN LINE
BY JONATHAN LERNER
The zigzag path of the revetment protects against tidal scouring and also slows people down. Photo © Lloyd/SWA, courtesy SWA/Balsle...
12-03-2020 21:55
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, MARCH 10
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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10-03-2020 21:56
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SQUATTERS? RIGHTS, GARDEN DELIGHT
BY ZACH MORTICE
At the Carré Casgrain community garden, Cassini and other neighbors planted cherry tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and strawberries. Pho...
05-03-2020 22:05
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QUITE A SPLASH
BY BRADFORD MCKEE, EDITOR...
03-03-2020 21:59
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MARCH LAM: WHERE THE WILDNESS IS
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FOREGROUND
On Belonging and Becoming (Interview)
Julian Agyeman, a Tufts University planning professor, talks about his work ...
02-03-2020 22:00
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SHOW YOUR WORK, EXPAND YOUR SPHERE
BY ZACH MORTICE
Cylindrical core samples from Boston’s geology are mounted in Wunderkammer vitrines. Photo by Justin Knight.
LAM: Why frame your wor...
27-02-2020 21:56
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AMAZON FIRE: WHO OWNS THE AMAZON"
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
25-02-2020 22:02
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EDITORIAL DISCRETION
BY JONATHAN LERNER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM WESTPHALEN
A badly eroded bluff was reimagined and stabilized as descending terraces.
The first, longest part ...
20-02-2020 21:54
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, FEBRUARY 18
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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18-02-2020 21:56
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LETHAL GLASS LANDSCAPES
BY JEFF LINK
Illinois Rare Bird Alert reported that the woodpecker?named after the explorer Meriwether Lewis, who first saw the bird on his expedition...
13-02-2020 21:54
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MULLIGANS
BY ZACH MORTICEThe long, sculpted view corridors of golf courses are ideal for scenic vistas in public parks. Photo by Zach Mortice.
Nationally, deman...
11-02-2020 21:58
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, FEBRUARY 6
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
order single copies of the print issue from ASLA. Annual sub...
06-02-2020 21:59
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ASLA HONORS: 2020 NOMINATIONS CLOSE FRIDAY
honors to individuals and groups for their service to the landscape architecture profession and its ideals in the public realm. They include the ASLA ...
05-02-2020 21:59
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FEBRUARY LAM: STEADY DELETION
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FOREGROUND
Public Space, No Exceptions (Law)
The Supreme Court in December affirmed that people have a right to sleep in publ...
04-02-2020 21:56
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PUBLIC SPACE, NO EXCEPTIONS
BY BRICE MARYMAN, FASLA
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04-02-2020 21:56
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HEAD FOR THE HILL
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
04-02-2020 21:56
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LOOKING IN ON JOHNSTOWN’S WAY OUT
BY ZACH MORTICE
story map website of these case studies, as well as broad design and planning aspirations for the city: adding rail transit; pivoting ...
28-01-2020 21:58
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LAMCAST: ST. PATRICK’S ISLAND, SURROUNDED
Early on in the development of St. Patrick’s Island Park just beyond downtown Calgary, community members told its designers at W Architecture and L...
23-01-2020 21:59
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JANUARY 21
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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21-01-2020 21:59
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THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY, BLOG REGULARLY
BY ZACH MORTICE
with a dramatic soundtrack and a smooth landing, ended more agreeably.)
The structure and evolution of this art project mirror both th...
16-01-2020 21:58
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NO PLAN IS AN ISLAND
BY BRIAN BARTH
The breach is a bisected by a fire truck access route, designed as a floodable weir. Image courtesy W Architecture and Landscape Archit...
14-01-2020 21:56
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JANUARY 9
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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09-01-2020 21:56
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THEATER REVIVAL
BY LYDIA LEE
Sections and details from the 1967 plan. Drawings by Royston, Hanamoto, Mayes & Beck, 1967. Courtesy UCSC Physical Planning and Construct...
07-01-2020 21:58
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JANUARY LAM: INCLINED TO ADVENTURE
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FOREGROUND
Theater Revival (Preservation)
Updating Robert Royston?s beloved Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz, California, me...
06-01-2020 21:57
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ON THE EDGE
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of tr...
19-12-2019 21:54
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WHAT WE BUILD SO THAT WE CAN TAKE
BY ZACH MORTICE
The nitrate mining town of María Elena in Chile. Photo by Ignacio Infante.
For an exhibit focused on extractive industries, Beyond the...
18-12-2019 21:55
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, DECEMBER 17
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
Photo by Mark Hough, FASLA
From “The Water You Can’t See...
17-12-2019 22:01
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ESCAPE HATCHES
BY JONATHAN LERNER
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12-12-2019 21:54
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BONA FIDE BIM
BY AIDAN ACKERMAN, ASLA
BIM?s rise in design has brought about new legal considerations for designers.
FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHI...
10-12-2019 21:51
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THE WATER YOU CAN’T SEE
BY KOFI BOONE, ASLA
A civic hydrology park emerges on Duke University?s campus.
FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
Havi...
05-12-2019 21:53
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, DECEMBER 3
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
Image courtesy Jaime Lerner Associated Architects.
From “O...
03-12-2019 21:54
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DECEMBER LAM: AT THE WATER’S EDGE
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FOREGROUND
Bona Fide BIM (Tech)
Legal considerations regarding liability and ownership of intellectual property are emerging
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02-12-2019 21:59
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