Each issue also has a distinctive title

January 2021: All Access --
LAM --
8 Inside --
10 LAND MATTERS --
FOREGROUND --
14 NOW: East Coast firms are heading west; Monument Lab lands a grant for a national accounting; Superjacent bolsters an unpromising site for supportive housing; grants help cities seek equity through pandemic recovery; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
36 MAINTENANCE: A Resilient Renewal: After Hurricane Sandy upended a planned redesign, Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture committed to the upkeep of a flood-control Landscape at NYU's Langone Medical Center. BY ALEX ULAM --
48 HOUSE CALL: Ahead of the Curve: An artful take on an underused suburban yard by Jennifer Horn Landscape Architecture turns around a few key elements. BY KIM O'CONNELL --
58 GOODS: Hot Stuff: New fire features that bring the heat. BY EMILY COX --
FEATURES --
66 REVEAL THE RIVER: Though 100 protected miles of the Chattahoochee River flow through the Atlanta metro area,
a lack of access and a long history of segregation have kept locals away and distrustful. SCAPE lays out a path, or three, forward. By Jonathan Lerner --
82 MIXED MEDIA: Landscape architects have been slow to adopt social media, but with the pandemic closing off traditional marketing, social platforms are giving rise to new forms of connection and collaboration. By Timothy A. Schuler --
THE BACK --
98 THE ROAD FROM INHOTIM: Tucked away in Brazil's Minas Gerais, a forward-looking art center and botanical garden is caught in a balancing act with the mining industry that both threatens and sustains nearby communities. BY AMANDA SILVANA COEN, ASLA --
110 Books: Writing Race In: A review of Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, edited by Irene Cheng, Charles I. Davis II, and Mabel D. Wilson. BY THAISA WAY, FASLA --
124 ADVERTISER INDEX --
125 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
136 BACKSTORY: Weaving Place: Atlas Lab harnesses a tradition of basket weaving to connect the landscape of Mariposa County, California, to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation. BY KATHARINE LOGAN --

February 2021: Fresh takes --
LAM --
8 Inside --
10 Land Matters --
Foreground --
14 Now: Colorado hosts a charrette for outdoor dining; a virtual exhibition forefronts diversity in design; a memorial to a historic scar for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation; Snohetta's living library in North Dakota's Badlands; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
34 SOILS: Who's Around Underground?: At Republic Square in Austin. Texas, the landscape architecture firm dwg. finds that new tools for monitoring soil health give an edge to park maintenance. BY ZACH MORTICE --
44 GOODS: On Edge: Fences, rails, and partitions that primp privacy. BY EMILY COX --
FEATURES --
54 ON TRACK: At Rutgers University, six landscape architecture students from community colleges reflect on the spark that drew them in. BY JANE MARGOLIES --
64 FROM THE OUTSIDE IN: A new affordable housing complex in San Francisco with a landscape design by Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture aims to elevate public housing in one of the most expensive cities in the world. BY BRIAN BARTH --
THE BACK --
84 TIME STAMPS: A visual survey of A Slice Through America: A Geological Atlas by David Kassel. BY JENNIFER REUT --
98 BOOKS: Winter Books: Notes on readings in and around landscape architecture, by the LAM staff. --
116 ADVERTISER INDEX --
117 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
128 BACKSTORY: Art Work: Falon Land Studio takes a hands-on approach for a public art piece in Houston. BY HANIYA RAE --

March 2021: Delta Undaunted --
LAM --
8 Inside --
10 LAND MATTERS --
FOREGROUND --
14 NOW: A rare James Rose corporate design; Vision Galveston looks to the future by staying put; a major Toronto boulevard may make room for a linear park; Dix,i-lite + Partners designs a multimodal plan in Orlando: and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
40 Materials: Cracking Up: Concrete cracks inevitably, but there are steps designers can take to help alleviate stress. BY JAMES DUDLEY AND JOHN PAYNE, ASLA --
52 Goods: Hit the Brakes: Smart shelters and solutions for scooters and bikes. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
62 TOWARD RECLAMATION: A National Heritage Area designation brings the overlooked cultural history of the Sacramento—San Joaquin River Delta, long seen as California's plumbing system, to light. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
78 THE BIG DEAL: A small city in rural North Carolina finds itself with a lot of land to develop after a
historic psychiatric hospital moves on. A landscape-driven plan by Stewart helps find 800 acres of potential. BY JARED BREY --
THE BACK --
98 Roadside Realm: There's much to be seen on the sturdy little bluestem grasslands that line the highway. BY TARA MITCHELL --
112 Books: Keep the Change: A review of Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial, and Ecological Considerations, by Catherine Heatherington. BY GALE FULTON, ASLA --
138 ADVERTISER INDEX --
139 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
152 BACKSTORY: Still on the Road: Victoria Sambunaris locks in on 20 years of shifting landscapes of the United States. BY MIMI ZEIGER --

April 2021: Let's Shop --
LAM --
10 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
14 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
18 NOW: Duwamish Crossings finds opportunity in infrastructure failure; an urban farm in Charleston, South Carolina, is the missing piece in a legacy gift; a landscape architect pitches in to save a local Oregon landmark left in ashes; Chee Salette raises a timely memorial to mass shooting victims in Tucson, Arizona; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
40 IN MEMORIAM: Carol R. Johnson, 1929-2020: In an interview from 2010, one of the first women to be awarded the ASLA Medal looked back on her trailblazing career. BY JANE ROY BROWN --
48 PRESERVATION: Keep the Commons: Historically Black Colleges and Universities have seen their distinctive campus designs erode with time and change. A new grant program will help them navigate the future. BY ANJULIE RAO --
58 PLANNING: Words Lost and Found: When the Great Lakes Ojibwe tribes realized western planning for climate change didn't reflect their worldview, they remade it. Now natural resource planners are catching up. BY ADAM REGN ARVIDSON, FASLA --
70 GOODS: Fresh Flora: Check out what's new in the plant world. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
Features --
80 THE BEST MEDICINE: Stanford medical campus in Northern California underwent a dazzling 12-year, $2 billion transformation. Details that take advantage of sight lines and the senses yield a landscape that's also state of the art. BY LYDIA LEE --
98 SHOP SHAPE: A yearlong pandemic and skyrocketing online shopping have gutted retail streets. Five landscape architecture firms sketch out how to remake them as livelier, more equitable destinations. BY ELIZABETH KENNEDY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT,
PLLC; MANTLE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; MNLA; RDG PLANNING & DESIGN; AND SWA HOUSTON --
THE BACK --
122 LOVE, LOU: A new memoir by Harriet Pattison, FASLA, reveals the shifting influences of love and art. BY JENNIFER REUT --
136 ALONG FOR THE DETOUR: Though the pandemic halted a popular fermentation festival in rural Wisconsin, visitors still found surprises in the fields. BY REGINA M. FLANAGAN, ASLA --
142 BOOKS: All the Youth We Cannot See: A review of The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People, edited by Janet Loebach, Sarah Little, Adina Cox, and Patsy Eubanks Owens. --
164 ADVERTISER INDEX --
165 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
180 BACKSTORY: New Tricks: A landscape designer explores 3-D printing of animal prosthetics. BY AARON KING, ASSOCIATE ASLA --

MAY 2021: Soft Edge --
LAM --
8 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
14 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
18 NOW --
Movie night brings students together safely; Unknown Studio helps an isolated Maine landmark reach outward; poking holes in the border wall; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
42 TECH --
Print to Scale --
A low-budget student project meets new 3-D printing technology, and an award-winning garden is the result. BY HANIYA RAE
54 ADVOCACY --
Room to Lead --
The National Association of Minority Landscape Architects formed in a moment of recognition. Now it is using its platform to reach out to students. BY NINON SCOTTO DI UCCIO --
64 GOODS --
New Digs --
Modern containers for urban plants. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
72 ALTERNATE ENDING --
Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles was once a gathering place, but when it was decommissioned, the future went hazy. Navigating a vocal public process, Hargreaves Jones and the local firm Chee Salette honed a jumble of ideas into a plan for people and wildlife. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
92 WHOSE EYES ON THE STREET? --
Design strategies meant to prioritize safety in public housing often increase surveillance and overpolicing instead. A new program for New York City Housing Authority communities returns the keys to the people who live there. BY KARL KRAUSE --
THE BACK --
106 THE TRAFFIC OF TRACES --
Visionary urban landscapes transformed by the hand of the landscape designer Valerio Morabito. BY ZACH MORTICE --
120 BOOKS --
A Deep Structure of Place --
A review of Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed by Amita Sinha. BY LAKE DOUGLAS, FASLA --
140 ADVERTISER INDEX --
141 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
152 BACKSTORY --
One Small Step --
New legislation will protect historic sites on the moon from a future of commercial space ventures. BY KEVAN KLOSTERWILL --

JUNE 2021: Well Served --
LAM --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
FOREGROUND --
14 NOW Trading cards lead kids to the profession; a daylighting in Salt Lake City; nurseries look for a way to avoid plastic pots; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
38 PLANNING --
Talking Points The WELL Community Standard is touted as the new sustainability checklist, but is it just landscape architecture in new clothes? Reed Hilderbrand tries it out at a Florida megaproject, Water Street Tampa. BY ZACH MORTICE --
48 MAINTENANCE --
Let the Graveyard Grow --
In Brooklyn, New York, Green-Wood Cemetery's parklike setting and open lawns have become a pandemic destination. Behind the placid view. the horticultural staff races to stay ahead of climate change. BY TOM STOELKER --
60 GOODS --
Make It Rain --
Cool off with new water features and utilities BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
68 SOLDIER STORIES --
Three new veterans memorials break from the visual language of war to make a place for those who served and lived. Butzer Architects and Urbanism, Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, and DAVID RUBIN Land Collective each found an approach that ties the past to the present. BY KIM O'CONNELL --
86 BACK TO BASICS --
When Waterfront Toronto announced that the Google offshoot Sidewalk Labs would be designing an urban techtopia on a prime 12-acre site, brows were raised. Now the project is canceled—a casualty of public resistance and pandemic funding—and the city looks to what's next. BY KATHARINE LOGAN --
THE BACK --
106 POWER PLAYER --
President Biden's new infrastructure plan includes opportunities for a vibrant and equitable new energy landscape. Everywhere it touches the ground, landscape architects have a role. BY NICHOLAS PEVZNER, YEKANG KO, AND KIRK DIMOND, ASLA --
118 BOOKS --
The Tragedy of the Commons --
A review of Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin, edited by Jason Robison, Daniel McCool, and Thomas Minckley. BY KELLY COMRAS, FASLA --
138 ADVERTISER INDEX --
139 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
152 BACKSTORY --
Artist's Block --
A lockdown pastime brings a Wisconsin landscape architect closer to the Madison landmarks he loves. BY PATRICK SISSON --

August 2021: Time Line --
LAM --
10 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
16 LETTERS
FOREGROUND --
22 NOW --
Seagrass is a carbon sink; a river puzzle for Exhibit Columbus; Denver park makers get it right the second time; a new graduate program in a city that has surprisingly few; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
46 PLANNING --
Piece by Piece --
Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail is a glorious homage to the state's geology and conservation history. So why is it so hard to get it finished? BY DAWN REISS --
60 INTERVIEW --
The Outside Track --
For minority students on the path to the profession, exceptional persistence and mentors are as important as design skills. BY JAMIE MASLYN LARSON, ASLA --
68 GOODS --
Movers and Shakers --
Park equipment that sparks work and play. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
78 PATHS FORWARD --
The Canadian landscape is shaped by histories and losses of Indigenous peoples, which the government is only beginning to confront. Landscape architects at NVision and Brook Mcllroy steward two master-planning efforts meant to embody the principles of reconciliation in action. BY KATHARINE LOGAN --
96 TIME GOES BY --
Biel, Switzerland, was once a center of Swiss time makers; today it's a multicultural city with a new urban magnet by Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur. Schussinsel Park entwines a constructed, flood-controlling island with elements designed to be wild. BY JESSICA BRIDGER --
THE BACK --
120 I, DESIGNER? --
Investigations into the use of artificial intelligence in landscape architecture dance around the idea of Al creativity. Two researchers argue we have something to learn. BY PHILLIP FERNBERG, ASSOCIATE ASLA, AND BRENT CHAMBERLAIN --
134 BOOKS --
Weather Conditions --
A review of Atmosphere Anatomies: On Design, Weather, and Sensation, by Silvia Benedito. BY ELISSA ROSENBERG --
162 ADVERTISER INDEX --
163 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
176 BACKSTORY --
Eating Local in Dubai --
As part of Expo 2020, a landscape architect launches a yearlong experiment in urban foraging. BY CLAIRE TURRELL --

September 2021: Glen Stone --
LAM --
10 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
16 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
22 NOW --
A memorial to a founding father confronts his past; Boston City Hall's plaza, redesigned for the people; a sculpture takes shape through unfamiliar tools and processes; residents of Tampa, Florida, unite to preserve a Dan Kiley garden; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
42 INTERVIEW --
Big Tree, Small World --
The author and entomologist Doug Tallamy's new book, The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees, advocates for the environmental workhorse of trees. BY BRADFORD MCKEE --
52 WATER --
One Big Picture --
A comprehensive new map of the Colorado River Basin connects the watershed and the people. BY LISA OWENS VIANI --
62 GOODS --
Top That --
Expressive surfaces designed to perform. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
72 LICENSURE ON THE LINE --
After years of political attacks, the design professions are uniting to protect against threats to professional licensure. BY STEPHEN ZACKS --
84 WORLDS AWAY --
Hidden in the leafy Washington, D.C., suburbs, Glenstone has been an insider's destination for years. For a new expansion and outreach, PWP Landscape Architecture designed a landscape for the confluence of big art and small moments. BY GLENN DIXON --
THE BACK --
110 BEFORE AND AFTER --
A new book on the 18th-century landscape designer Humphry Repton pairs his classic Red Book illustrations with modern landscape photography. BY JENNIFER REUT --
120 BOOKS --
Our Wildest Dreams --
A review of Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence, edited by Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley, and Stephen Harris. BY GRACE MITCHELL TADA, ASSOCIATE ASLA --
144 ADVERTISER INDEX --
145 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
156 BACKSTORY --
Reappearing Act --
In 1913, plans for a National American Indian Memorial on Staten Island faded with lack of funding and impending war. A new concept for the site calls on present-day tools to realize the past. BY JONATHAN LERNER --

October 2021: The 2021 ASLA Awards --
LAM --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
12 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
16 NOW --
Proposals for living shorelines on Hawaii have traditional roots; the Landscape Justice Institute hits the ground running; Kansas City residents battle for their ad hoc open spaces; trees for arid lands, once removed; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
36 GOODS --
Grab a Seat Urbane furnishings for living and working in public. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
AWARDS --
42 THE 2021 ASLA STUDENT AWARDS --
This year's student projects demonstrated a point of view and an audacious confidence tools of landscape architecture for social change and ecological value. BY JARED BREY, LYDIA LEE, ZACH MORTICE, ANJULIE RAO, TIMOTHY A. SCHULER AND LISA SCHULTZ.
44 COMMUNICATIONS --
52 STUDENT COLLABORATION --
58 COMMUNITY SERVICE --
66 RESEARCH --
74 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING --
88 URBAN DESIGN --
98 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
100 GENERAL DESIGN --
114 THE 2021 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS --
This year's professional award winners embraced grand landscapes and modest sites equally, with a responsive take on local material palettes and a strong emphasis on repair and reuse. BY JARED BREY; AARON KING, ASLA; ZACH MORTICE; ANJULIE RAO; JENNIFER REUT; AND TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
116 COMMUNICATIONS --
128 RESEARCH --
136 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING --
150 URBAN DESIGN --
162 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
176 GENERAL DESIGN
194 THE 2021 ASLA LANDMARK AWARD --
218 ADVERTISER INDEX --
220 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
240 HONORS --
ASLA announces the recipients of its 2021 medals and other awards. BY JENNIFER REUT --

November 2021: Wide Open students map the future along the Tennessee RiverLine --
LAM --
16 INSIDE --
20 LAND MATTERS FOREGROUND --
26 NOW --
Designing the right spot for Fallen Sky to land; Knoxville's storied Loghaven re-emerges as an artists' haven; Seferian Design Group finds a material balance along a Lake Ontario shoreline; carbon counting for city services in Reno, Nevada; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
52 PLANNING --
High Profile --
A vision for a 71-mile irrigation canal that runs along Denver's eastern edge has bloomed into a grand plan for a multifunctional recreation trail with stormwater, community, and ecological benefits. BY HANIYA RAE --
68 GOODS --
New on the Floor --
Look into the latest at the ASLA EXPO in Nashville. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
76 WHEN STARS ALIGN --
Thanks to years of work by students and faculty frcm the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's School of Landscape Architecture, the 652-mile trail known as the Tennessee RiverLine has grown from a sparky idea to a full-fledged proposal. It is poised to be part of the region's next era of people-centered infrastructure. BY JARED BREY --
94 HOME BREWED --
A connection with New Belgium Brewing Company led to a chance for Russell + Mills Studios to design the landscape for a brewery in Asheville, North Carolina. The firm joined forces with the city and local conservation groups to transform a rusted industrial site into a thriving riverfront. BY BRIAN BARTH --
114 THE BRIDGE BUILDER --
Martin Smith left a successful career to move home to the Arkansas Delta, and he quickly saw how the tools of landscape architecture could help the struggling Big Woods region. By building a groundswell of support, Smith has seen his vision grow from passion project to a force for change. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM HURSLEY --
THE BACK --
140 FINDING COMMUNITY IN THE FLOODWATERS --
After their offices in New Orleans and New York were evacuated during Hurricane Ida, three designers from SCARE Studio reflect on the ways the storm brought their work on coastal resilience home in the best and worst ways. BY JENNIFER REUT --
154 BOOKS --
Site Still Matters --
A review of Site Matters: Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design, edited by Andrea Kahn and Carol J. Burns. BY SARA JACOBS --
178 ADVERTISER --
INDEX 179 --
ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
192 BACKSTORY --
Tough Cookie --
Seeking a way to translate wildfire risk in Lake Tahoe, a landscape artist lets the trees talk. BY SARAH CHASE SHAW --

December 2021: Hot Spot a new urban pier brings the buzz back to St. Petersburg --
10 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
14 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
18 NOW --
A Pittsburgh park gets a green infrastructure makeover; biometric data could take the stress out of dangerous bike lanes; blooms and bees may benefit from plantings beneath solar farms; a modern infrastructure upgrade for a historic Virginia town; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
38 Minds--
The Stranger Territory --
Julie Bargmann, the inaugural winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, flourishes in the dirt. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
46 HOUSE CALL --
The Wright Way --
Was Frank Lloyd Wright a landscape designer? For Bayer Landscape Architecture, the firm that restored the garden at the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New York, the answer lies somewhere between the archives and the modern house museum. BY JOANN GRECO --
58 GOODS --
Made to Shade --
Coverings and enclosures styled for protection from the elements. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
66 RIGHT OF CENTER --
It's been a fishing jetty, a railroad pier, a contested site of segregation, even an inverted structure that called to mind a cake left out in the rain. But after six tries and 130 years, St. Petersburg, Florida's dazzling new pier and park, by a team including W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Ken Smith Workshop, and Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers, might be a keeper. BY ROBERTO J. ROVIRA, ASLA --
THE BACK --
92 A STUDY IN SALT MARSHES --
Designers tackling the thorny problems of resilience for coastal cities could learn from Frederick Law Olmsted in the Back Bay Fens urban wild in Boston. BY ADRIAN NOORTMAN, HANK VAN TILBORG, AND MAIKE WARMERDAM --
104 BOOKS --
Uneven Distribution A review of Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA: In Search of Sharawadgi by Fabian de Kloe, Peter Veenstra, and Joep Vossebeld. BY JUSTIN PARSCHER --
121 ADVERTISER INDEX --
122 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
134 BACKSTORY --
Green Machine --
The Miridae Mobile Nursery wanders neighborhoods in Davis, California, with native plants for sale. BY EMILY SCHLICKMAN --
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION --
PD-1 LAM 2022 PRODUCT DIRECTORY --
More than 85 pages of product information for specifiers about the latest in furnishings, containers, lighting, irrigation, living roofs and walls, park and play equipment, structures, and technology. --

January 2022: Great Plains --
LAM --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS FOREGROUND --
14 NOW --
A pilot project restores 1,200 acres of wetlands at the San Francisco Bay's Dutch Slough tidal marsh; Studio-MLA's plan to enliven the neglected Santa Ana River; Culdesac Tempe selects Floor Associates to design a neighborhood free of cars; students design a Baltimore park with a gold heart; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
34 TECH --
"I" Is for Information --
Focus on the building and the model can overlook the many new approaches landscape architects are taking to embedding detailed site information in BIM projects. BY AIDAN ACKERMAN, ASLA --
46 GOODS --
Get Smart --
Seamless integrations of technology and design at your service. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
52 PRAIRIE PRIMETIME --
When Mundus Bishop was selected to modernize public access at the Plains Conservation Center, a reserve of remnant Colorado short-grass prairie, the pandemic was still two years out. Social distancing has made the center a destination for nearby Aurora residents, so the design team kept the focus on the delicate balance between the people and the prairie. BY HANIYA RAE --
72 ROLL, TIDE --
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers and dumped 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Coast's fragile economy and environment have reemerged, thanks to billions of dollars in payouts and federal support. A rebuilt lodge at the region's leading attraction, Gulf State Park, undergirded by a Sasaki master plan, has come to represent all that money can and cannot put back. BY JARED BREY --
THE BACK --
92 ONE GIANT LEAP --
Parallel narratives of space exploration and protecting life on Earth have surprisingly similar roots: survival. BY IGNACIO F. BUNSTER-OSSA, FASLA --
102 BOOKS --
Lessons from Medellin --
A review of Social Urbanism: Reframing Spatial Design—Discourses from Latin America by Maria Bellalta. BY GABRIEL DIAZ MONTEMAYOR, ASLA --
121 ADVERTISER INDEX --
122 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
132 BACKSTORY --
Wonderland --
Georgina Reid's Wonderground journal makes a place for untold landscape stories. BY LEAH GHAZARIAN --

February 2022: Quad Goals --
LAM --
10 INSIDE --
12 LAND MATTERS --
14 LETTERS --
Foreground --
18 NOW --
The transition from farmland to wetland in northern San Francisco Bay; a laudable first for a preservation landscape architect; academia looks better than practice for gender equity; research for a future where plastics are alive; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
38 Planning A Canopy Where It Counts After a storm devastated the urban forest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the city recruited Confluence and Jeff Speck, Honorary ASLA, to help it grow back stronger. BY KEVAN KLOSTERWILL --
50 GOODS --
Fire It Up Get cozy with new fire and heat elements. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
56 NORTHERN STAR --
The University of Michigan's midcentury North Campus was an emblem of then-current campus design—suburban and car-centric but lacking a feeling of place. With a few deft moves, Stoss Landscape Urbanism's redesign of the central quad brought in light, texture, and topographical drama, and the students followed. BY ZACH MORTICE --
THE BACK --
80 LANDSLIDE 2021 --
Here, We Are Together In the face of decades-long campaigns of erasure and neglect, the Cultural Landscape Foundation's multimedia initiative highlights at-risk landscapes of Race and Space. BY JENNIFER REUT --
92 BOOKS --
Twice Burned A review of Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires by Jaime Lowe. BY STEPHEN PYNE --
117 ADVERTISER INDEX --
118 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
128 BACKSTORY --
Inter-Active Terrain Work's plan for a park cap over I-74 in Peoria, Illinois, stitches neighborhoods and generations together. BY JENNIFER REUT --

March 2022: Decked Out --
LAM --
16 INSIDE --
20 LAND MATTERS --
24 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
28 NOW --
HMWhite tops Rockefeller Center with greenery; a master plan by GGN pulls three schools together; Waxahachie, Texas, jumps on the stormwater park train; pipelines muddle future restoration along the Louisiana coast; a remembrance of Darwina L. Neal, 1942-2021; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
50 RESEARCH --
Small Town, Heavy Load --
Urbanites flee to rural areas for the fresh air and open space, but a study of three Iowa towns finds those advantages aren't enjoyed equally. Small-scale interventions are one way landscape designers can help. BY ANJULIE RAO --
56 GOODS --
Home Style --
Settle in with outdoor furnishings for designed digs. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
64 UNBUILT TO LAST --
Plans to redevelop an Oakland, California, waterfront hit a snag when no one could agree what to do with a massive historic shipping terminal. Instead of scrapping the plan, Einwiller Kuehl jumped it to the next level, deconstructing the historic fabric and adding just enough finesse to keep things lively on deck. BY LYDIA LEE --
86 CORE FOUR --
When Dallas lost out on landing a big corporation because it lacked downtown parks, Robert Decherd took it personally. Over the next 20 years, his foundation-backed Parks for Downtown Dallas transformed the city's urban core, funding a master plan and four high-profile urban parks, but some are asking if that is happening at the expense of the city's neighborhood parks. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
THE BACK --
106 ALTERNATE REALITIES --
As wearables and other technologies increasingly mediate our senses, Shaped Touches investigates how our experience of public space may transform in kind. BY SEAN LALLY --
118 BOOKS --
Stop Calling Me Resilient --
A review of Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice by Kian Goh. BY MERVE BEDIR --
148 ADVERTISER INDEX --
149 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
160 BACKSTORY --
A close-up look at research on the potential of mycelium in managing stormwater, by Courtney Goode, ASLA. --

April 2022: Hands On --
LAM --
12 INSIDE --
14 LAND MATTERS --
16 LETTERS --
FOREGROUND --
20 NOW --
Ableist critiques of artful crosswalks make an impact; the hottest U.S. city opens the first office of heat response and mitigation; an urban greenway for New Jersey by MNLA follows the railroad; waterfront designers should consider urban fishers; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
40 WATER --
In the Tank --
Amid the wetlands and steel plants of Chicago's Big Marsh Park, a new water recycling system at the Ford Calumet Environmental Center renews the region's ecological potential. BY ZACH MORTICE --
50 PRESERVATION --
Tavern on the Scene --
The historic Dunham Tavern in Midtown Cleveland was a destination of interest to all but its neighbors. Merritt Chase and LAND Studio folded the community and some missing pieces of the region's story into a new master plan for the landscape. BY TIMOTHY A SCHULER --
62 GOODS --
Sprouts with Spring --
Vibrant plant introductions for the new season. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
70 IN THEIR ELEMENTS --
Farm, family, and the fundamentals of drawing, topped with a dash of social media, might seem like an uncommon recipe for a nationally recognized landscape architecture firm. But at Stimson, that's just how they've always done it. BY JONATHAN LERNER --
94 THE YEAR OF THE SUPERSTUDIO --
With its clarion call for green jobs, environmental justice, and national decarbonization, the Green New Deal reads like a set of prompts for a landscape architecture studio, so why not make it one? Inside the yearlong experiment in grounding policy in real-life regional problems. BY AARON KING --
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122 WORK IN PROGRESS --
When a group of architects at SHoP announced they were forming a union to address the grueling hours, middling pay, and lack of visibility into the decisions that caused them, landscape architects started talking. Here, 10 designers discuss how they're rewriting the rules of the profession's work culture. BY BRADFORD MCKEE --
140 BOOKS --
From Compound to Playground --
A review of Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind by Claire Latane. BY BESS WILLIAMSON --
162 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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176 BACKSTORY --
The many paths through a land bridge in Houston by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. --

May 2022: Colwell Shelor --
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LAA Office finds space and pattern in rural Indiana; defining green infrastructure proves elusive; RIOS reflects on nature at the International Garden Festival; research on birdsong as an ecosystem indicator; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
46 STREETS (Re)Making the Grade --
LaQuatra Bonci Associates stretches an infrastructure upgrade into a pedestrian-focused redesign at the University of Pittsburgh. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
58 GOODS --
Outside the Box Planters go off the wall—and on the wall. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
FEATURES --
68 A WILDER WEST --
For crusading clients who prefer prickly natives over tidy lawns, the landscape architects at Colwell Shelor created an award-winning design that puts the Arizona desert's rich textures on display. BY BRIAN BARTH --
86 LINE BY LINE --
From the north coast of Massachusetts, Michael Blier, FASLA, and Landworks Studio have grown the firm's influence by designing culturally sensitive projects through multiperspective drawings. BY JESSICA BRIDGER --
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114 WALKING WITNESS --
Urban sketching during the pandemic reveals the presence, and the spatial strategies of resilience, of unhoused encampments. BY DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM, FASLA --
126 BOOKS --
What's Fun Is Fun --
A review of Serious Fun: The Landscapes of Claude Cormier by Marc Treib and Susan Herrington. BY WENDY GILMARTIN --
148 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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160 BACKSTORY --
Beatrix Farrand's plans for maintenance on Maine's Mount Desert Island. --

June 2022: Where’s my stuff --
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Training for the formerly incarcerated bridges the racial gap in environmental jobs; dated rainfall numbers for infrastructure planning come up short; a dangerous policy for eroding Northwest coastlines; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
42 CITIES --
Wayfaring, but Stranger Along the edges and alleys of London and Marseille, France, urban explorers lead walking tours that remap the city. BY TIM WATERMAN --
52 GOODS --
Guiding Lights The right glow can do wonders for landscapes. BY EMILY DAVIDSON
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60 YOUR STUFF IS COMING (SOMEDAY) --
By now we've all heard the news: Materials for landscape projects are hard to find, hard to price—and delayed, delayed, delayed. A look inside the nuts and bolts of where your nuts and bolts are (and aren't), from the manufacturers and growers that serve the profession. BY BRADFORD MCKEE --
78 THE UPSIDE OF DOWNSTREAM --
In mountainous West Virginia, towns bloomed along the rivers and railroad, and that means more floodwater risk to people and infrastructure as the planet heats up. As leaders took to federal dollars to advance resilience, it's local history and landscape architects that deliver for residents. BYJEFF LINK --
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100 BOG WILD --
Argentina's remote peatlands offer unparalleled opportunities for carbon capture—if they aren't disturbed. They're also devastatingly beautiful. BY JIMENA MARTIGNONI --
116 BOOKS --
Children as Indicator Species A review of Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities by Tim Gill. BY ELISSA ROSENBERG --
136 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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148 BACKSTORY --
Andropogon Associates's new vision for Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art. --

July 2022: Bliss Out --
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A new push for a binational park straddling Texas and Mexico; the costs of stop-work in Russia; urban trees as public utility, and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
40 PRACTICE --
Give Help, Get Help SWA Group's Kinder Baumgardner, ASLA, wanted to do more to support Ukrainian landscape architects than post a flag on social media. BY LAURIE A. SHUSTER --
46 MATERIALS --
Mind the Gaps (and Curves) Precast concrete offers uniformity, complexity, and creativity. Getting ahead of construction and maintenance issues can ensure a project that stands out. BY JOHN PAYNE, ASLA, AND JAMES DUDLEY --
60 GOODS --
Right as Rain Water features with flash. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
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68 BANKING ON BORROWED LAND --
Some cities have too much land, others not enough, and few have the resources to manage vacant land in an era of climate change. For smaller cities and rural areas, land banks and land trusts could hold keys to better solutions, but navigating the regulations has its challenges. BY ERIN KELLY, ASLA --
86 HOW TO GROW A GREENWAY --
The emergence of Lafitte Greenway from a brownfield to a flood-resilient public space owed much to an award-winning master plan, but when budgets clipped several features, residents weren't happy. Volunteers and community groups, along with Spackman Mossop Michaels, took the New Orleans park across the finish line. BY JANE MARGOLIES --
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108 ESTATE OF THE ART --
A new book, Garden as Art, marks the centennial of Dumbarton Oaks. BY THAfSA WAY, FASLA PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA --
124 BOOKS --
Land Art's Fragile State A review of Second Site by James Nisbet. BY ENRIQUE RAMIREZ --
144 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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156 BACKSTORY --
How OLIN designed the graceful public seating at Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. --

August 2022: Tough Cuts --
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Design for cannabis tourism; a five-borough fruit orchard in New York; monarchs will find respite at South Dakota rest stops; and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
42 ACCESSIBILITY --
Beautiful Accidents. Bringing POP Rocks from proposal to public artwork included a few adjustments to allow play for all. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
48 CAMPUS --
Collage Material A culture of social activism inspired the designers at MNLA to dig deep for public input on the Smith College campus master plan. BY JONATHAN LERNER --
62 MAINTENANCE --
Weed Whacker - With experienced herders, goats can clear out invasive species on large conservation projects and public lands while saving money and conserving carbon—plus, they're fun to watch. BY KATHARINE LOGAN --
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Do Wonder -New fittings for public parks and playgrounds that invite curiosity. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
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78 TIER DROPS --
Regulations and apportioning that were set up 100 years ago are under pressure as the Colorado River shrinks. As climate change accelerates and record-breaking drought worsens, cities, tribes, and industries must prepare for a future with less water. BY LISA OWENS VIANI --
96 THE LAKES AND THE LOCALS --
South Philadelphia's FOR Park was a shaggy, 348-acre overlooked gem in the city's system until the pandemic brought the crowds. With a master plan by WRT already approved, park supporters found themselves navigating class and race as they debated the park's future. BY JARED GREY --
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120 THE LAST FLORIADE? --
The keystone horticultural exposition in the Netherlands struggles to find its footing. BY TIM WATERMAN --
134 BOOKS --
A Collective Gasp A review of Breathe: Investigations into Our Atmospherically Entangled Future, edited by Klaus K. Loenhart. BY POLLYANNA RHEE --
160 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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172 BACKSTORY --
Seferian Design Group inserts a healing garden for struggling families into a small urban site. --

September 2022: Walker Macy --
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Letters --
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Now – The Office of Cheryl Barton hands the keys to SCAPE; certification ensures Chesapeake Bay expertise; DIALOG designs a park for busy Vancouver; a design dedicated to Black trans civil rights evolves, and more. Edited by Timothy A. Schuler --
HABITAT --
Sidecar Wetlands – No land is no problem along Chicago’s moribund North Branch Canal, where Omni Ecosystems and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill drop modular wetlands along the Wild Mile. by Jeff Link --
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Finishing Touches – New looks for public gathering places. by Emily Davidson --
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Back to the Garden – At the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Heritage Landscapes and a team of archeologists have pieced together the landscape traces of the legendary 1969 festival.With the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts close by, and tourists flocking, the echoes from Woodstock are only getting louder. by Jane Margolies --
Reinventing the Lost Road – In 1922, the scenic Columbia River Highway astonished motorists with stunning views and curves, but within years it was obsolete, sections cut up and lost. After decades of advocacy and planning by Walker Macy, the old road is reborn as a state trail that hugs the historic route and gives hikers and cyclists new thrills. by Katharine Logan --
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The Team on Tops – Behind the scaffolding at San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops park stand an uncommon number of women construction managers and project leaders. They don’t all think that’s a big deal. by Anne C Godfrey --
Books – Gone Feral – A review of Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space, by Matthew Gandy. by Anjulie Rao --
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Backstory – The expansion of a Dutch war cemetery by Karres en Brands. --

October 2022: The 2022 ASLA Awards --
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22 NOW MASS Design Group expands habitat for Rwanda's mountain gorillas; North Carolina's riverfront parks must do more to stay dry; a bike-friendly park makes a big impact in a small footprint; Hood Design Studio builds crows' nests at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and more. EDITED BY TIMOTHY A_ SCHULER --
46 GOODS Gotcha Covered Lids with style to keep the sun at bay. BY EMILY DAVIDSON --
AWARDS --
52 THE 2022 ASLA STUDENT AWARDS For projects that seamlessly weave together climate resilience, environmental justice, and ecological restoration and wrap them up in community-centered design, look no further than this year's winning landscape architecture students. BY AARON KING, LYDIA LEE, AND ZACH MORTICE --
54 COMMUNICATIONS --
60 STUDENT COLLABORATION --
66 COMMUNITY SERVICE --
70 RESEARCH --
76 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING --
86 URBAN DESIGN --
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102 THE 2022 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Balancing a range of client needs and environmental priorities, this year's professional award winners cover ambitious public projects, original research efforts, and critical tools for climate resilience and social regeneration. BY JARED BREY, LYDIA LEE, ANJULIE RAO, AND TIMOTHY A. SCHULER --
104 COMMUNICATIONS --
110 RESEARCH --
116 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING --
126 URBAN DESIGN --
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144 GENERAL DESIGN --
158 THE 2022 ASLA LANDMARK AWARD --
176 ADVERTISER INDEX --
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192 HONORS ASLA announces the recipients of its 2022 medals and other awards. BY LAURIE A. SHUSTER --
ASLA 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture --
The 2022 ASLA Professional and Student Awards and Honors recipients will be recognized at ceremonies held during the ASLA 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture, November 11-14 in San Francisco --

November 2022: The Leach Garden:
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18 Land Matters --
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26 NOW Edited by Timothy A. Schuler A nursery between highways will produce street trees and jobs; Terremoto designs a café that's an Indigenous haven in a colonial world; Vancouver moves forward with a more comprehensive stormwater system; positive findings for limiting wildfires on Forest Service lands; along the L.A. River, SALT Landscape Architects and RADAR Inc. seek harmony, and more. --
52 CLIMATE "Together for the Terroir" by Jennifer Reut With family roots in Napa Valley winemaking, Ann Baker uses her landscape architecture tool set to help residents and vineyards adapt to climate change and wildfires. --
62 PARKS "Clearing the Air" by Timothy A. Schuler A 165-acre park project in pollution-choked Taichung City, Taiwan, was a chance for Mosbach Paysagistes to design with microclimates. --
74 GOODS "Now Showing" by Laurie A. Shuster The latest products from first-time exhibitors at the 2022 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture. --
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84 "Explorers at Home,” by Bradford McKee Portland, Oregon, nearly lost the Leach Botanical Garden, and with it, the legacy of the botanist Lilla Leach and her husband, John. Now, an ambitious master plan by Land Morphology that includes hundreds of new plants is poised to make the Leach a star of the city's park system. --
106 "The Long Game" by Jared For landscape architects with ambition to work on Brey large-scale landscape projects, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has always been the big federal dog in the yard. As climate change and social change collide, the corps's Engineering with Nature program could be a way to meet in the middle. --
126 "Below the Horizons" by Lisa Owens Viani There's plenty to admire about Surface design's campus for a Seattle tech firm-spectacular views, amenities for days, public access to the waterfront- but the soil is just as remarkable. --
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154 "Heirloom Varieties" by Jennifer Reut With the publication of their new book, Beyond Bold, five leaders at Oehme, van Sweden discuss how the firm's founders shaped their ideas of sustainability and a company culture focused on professional growth. --
168 BOOKS "Be a Guest" by Catherine De Almeida, ASLA A review of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science, by Jessica Hernandez. --
212 BACKSTORY A student project on extractive landscapes turns to the body. --

December 2022: Rocks Star --
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18 NOW Edited by Timothy A. Schuler Montreal's Darlington corridor grows, gradually; the award-winning design team from Portland, Oregon's Japanese Garden reunites; Piet Oudolf turns his hand to reviving a historic garden in Chicago; New York City's open streets stay that way, and more. --
38 MATERIALS BREAKING BONDS. by Kamila Grigo Prompted by Grace Farms Foundation's Design for Freedom report, the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion becomes a pilot project for ethically sourced materials. --
50 GOODS STOP AND GO, by Laurie A. Shuster New components for getting around town. --
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56 TEN TIMES BETTER, by Aaron King TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism's design for a modest backyard in Minneapolis fuses woody wildness and industrial remnants. --
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76 LANDSLIDE 2022 LOSING GROUND, by Laurie A. Shuster This year's awareness campaign from the Cultural Landscape Foundation highlights public landscapes designed by the Olmsteds. --
88 BOOKS SUPPORT SYSTEM, by Katie Kingery-Page, ASLA A review of Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change by Elke Mertens. --
114 BACKSTORY A watercolor carries the feeling for Twistleaf's backyard tree house in Austin, Texas. --
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION:
PD-1 LAM 2023 PRODUCT DIRECTORY This 94-page compendium for specifiers includes the latest in lumber, decking, and edging; park and recreation equipment; surfaces and materials; furnishings; lighting; green walls and roofs, and more. --

January 2023: Al fay Park --
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14 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Civitas brings a secluded park in Idaho into view; the Albert Kahn-designed Ford House gets an exceptional update to its Jens Jensen landscape; a controversial native plant ordinance in Palm Beach, Florida, raises hackles; a garden enables a Black community's return to Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, and more. --
32 PLANNING GAME CHANGER, by Lisa Owens Viani Salmon habitat, abundant native plantings, and reversible play are among the landscape improvements for the sport of golf as it looks to a different future. --
42 GOODS SAFE BETS, by Laurie A. Shuster Artful ways to defend people and places. --
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48 PLAY IT COOL, by Jessica Bridger A desert forest is a surprising sight in the booming heart of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. For the popular Al Fay Park, Copenhagen-based SLA used local materials and resilient native plants in unexpected ways, creating engaging settings for play and rest. --
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70 HERE IN SPIRIT, by Regina M. Flanagan, ASLA Showcasing Indigenous artists and performers from around the Upper Midwest, the inaugural 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial wrestles with questions of natural resources and reaffirms the region's cultural identification with the land. --
82 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor THE MASS-PRODUCED FOREST, by Jennifer Wolch A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation, by Rosetta S. Elkin, ASLA. --
108 BACKSTORY Spiegel Aihara Workshop designs cascading social gardens in Silicon Valley. --

FEBRUARY 2023: Her Crown --
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16 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor New tools help early childhood educators see the change of nature-based play; London's Royal Parks are letting things go, a little bit; a new comprehensive tree survey could help diversify urban tree canopies, and more. --
30 PLANTS Home Grown by Jared Brey The clipped and orderly mid-Atlantic suburbs are slowly coming around to the idea of native plants, thanks in part to Refugia's persuasive approach to residential design. --
44 GOODS Laurie A. Shuster, Editor On the Surface The latest elements to help landscape designs come out on top. --
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54 Trash to Treasure by Jonathan Lerner Residents of East New York have been promised a new park over a pair of landfills for years. With a hard push from the governor and an award-winning design by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a new state park to honor the civil rights legend Shirley Chisholm has arrived. --
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80 Storm Warnings by Laurie A. Shuster The landscape architecture profession in Puerto Rico has ideas about defending the island against hurricanes. Now if they could just get the federal government to listen. --
92 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Right Plant, Any Place by Jack Ahern, FASLA A review of Plants in Design: A Guide to Designing with Southern Landscape Plants, by Brad E. Davis, ASLA, and David Nichols, ASLA. --
120 BACKSTORY A brief for a natural pool let Roche+Roche Landscape Architecture dig deep. --

MARCH 2023: Life Support --
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22 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Urban canopies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will need strong roots; an Olmsted vision for a healthier childhood gets a restart in Rochester, New York; promising tech for reducing urban heat needs more work, and more. --
36 PRESERVATION Honor Roll by Timothy A. Schuler When the influential landscape architect Joseph Yamada's house in San Diego went up for historic listing, everything was there but the landscape. --
50 GOODS Laurie A. Shuster, Editor Parting Ways Walls and fences that add charm and texture while defining space. --
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56 Bet the House by Zach Mortice New York City's public housing was once a visionary project that combined architecture and landscape in humane and practical ways, but years of systemic disinvestment scuttled that dream. A new landscape master plan for the New York City Housing Authority by Grain Collective and Nancy Owens Studio looks to kick-start a transformation long overdue. --
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80 Designing Upward by Jennifer Reut The key to a flourishing public space in Amsterdam is found below, according to BiodiverClTY: A Matter of Vital Soil! --
94 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor No Green Pill by Pollyanna Rhee A review of The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape, by Sara Jensen Carr, ASLA. --
132 BACKSTORY Without 3D-printed models, Public City might never have figured out how to build Thunderhead, a memorial to those affected by the LGBT Purge in Canada. --

APRIL 2023: MAKE IT WORK --
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20 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor A pilot program for rural schoolyards launches in Oregon; green burials and urban park space go together; a new podcast views the Green New Deal from abroad; more money for coastal resilience is out there, and more. --
40 INFRASTRUCTURE If Buffalo Could Roam by Timothy A. Schuler After an old bridge became unsafe, plans for a replacement took an unexpected turn when a proposal for a wildlife crossing began to gather support. Landscape architecture students jumped in to take the idea from concept to (maybe) reality. --
52 PLANNING The Heart of the Hill by Sarah Chase Show Once known as the "Richest Hill on Earth," Butte, Montana, has fought to move on from copper mining's aftermath in the form of a Superfund site and the notorious Berkeley Pit. After decades of federal negotiations and community activism, the city is set to step forward with a new vision led by Land Design, Inc. --
66 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Public Relations Durable furniture for convivial spaces. --
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76 The Butterfly Effect by Anjulie Roo For more than five years, only a small site of remembrance marked the place where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot by the police while playing with his sister. To create a space for healing, Tamir's mother, Samaria Rice, knew they would need more. Led by Design Jones LLC with DERU Landscape Architecture, the new Rice Butterfly Memorial is a testament to a community's commitment and a mother's determination to make a safer world for children from the ashes of grief. --
94 Range Rover by Jessica Bridger Tbilisi, Georgia, is an unexpected place for a well-established American designer and educator like Sarah Cowles, ASLA to launch a new practice, but the vibrant city, wild Caucasus Mountains, and go-go business climate suited her. With Russia, China, and western Europe jockeying for ever-bigger infrastructure projects, Georgia, and increasingly, Ruderal, is right in the thick of a global crossroads's rebirth. --
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122 Ten Topographic Acts by Marc Treib, Honorary ASLA An excerpt from The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture looks at land formation and deformation in 10 iconic projects. --
134 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger. Editor Thoroughly Modern Marjorie by Elissa Rosenberg A review of Marjorie Sewell Coutley: Landscape Architect for the Motor Age, by Sarah Allaback. --
168 BACKSTORY A planting design installed at Madison Square Park with numbers at its core. --

May 2023: Sedge Heads --
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22 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Money for Utah's dwindling Great Salt Lake; glass plus urban greenery can spell doom for birds; Arcosanti's experimental legacy extends into the landscape; the main reason midcareer women leave design firms, and more. --
44 CLIMATE The Breakup by Carol Becker Carbon capture looks different on a historic farm estate, where the Scottish National Trust is slicing through human-made earthworks to uncheck the natural wetlands and involving local farmers in the transformation. --
56 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Wet and Wild Design elements to send water where you want. --
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66 Listen and Unlearn by Zach Mortice The Navajo Nation stretches across four state lines and thousands of years of environmental history, but in Round Rock, Arizona, those numbers don't add up to basic services or a local grocery store. Working with the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute, University of New Mexico graduate students take tentative steps toward a planning process that rewrites landscape architecture practice. --
82 The Sedge Insurgency by Bradford McKee Versatile, hardy, and increasingly available, the 2,000 species of the genus Carex are enjoying a moment in the sun. Fans of the humble sedge praise its drought tolerance and adaptability to climate flux, declaring that there truly is one (at least) for most every landscape. --
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104 The Age of the Mega-Eco Project by Robert Levinthal and Richard Weller While the era of ever-larger hard infrastructure solutions grinds on, a new typology has begun to emerge. Mega-eco projects attack multiple challenges with landscape-based strategies and offer enormous opportunities—if they avoid the cost run-ups and policy missteps of traditional infrastructure projects. --
118 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor The Rule Book by Gale Fulton, ASLA A review of 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know, edited by B. Cannon Ivers. --
148 BACKSTORY Prop Roots Design Studio's oversized topiary is a balancing act in Surat, India. --

June 2023: Speak Out --
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22 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor A former plantation becomes a Black Commons; wildfire restorations put pressure on seed supplies; a creek in the Bronx will see daylight again; retooling the landscape history curriculum, and more. --
42 DETAILS Step Down, Splash Down by Zach Mortice A steel deck, a complex drainage system, and 90,000 cubic feet of geofoam underpin a zigzagging connection to Chicago's Lakeshore East by Claude Cormier + Associés and Confluence. --
54 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Let It Glow New standards to brighten up the corners. --
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62 Push & Pull by Bradford McKee Nine queer landscape designers convened virtually to address the place they've made in the field, while darker clouds loom in the form of hate crimes and restrictive legislation. Hopeful and determined to thrive, these designers pledge to create community and safe and celebratory public spaces for all. --
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88 Stewarding Change in a Time of Fire by Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan An excerpt from the forthcoming Design by Fire: Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene argues it is time to stop seeing wildfires as antagonists. After decades of putting this natural resource under dangerous pressure, humans have an obligation to develop a more creative approach. --
100 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Climate Crises Pedagogies by Sara Jensen Carr, ASLA A review of Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures, edited by Rosales Monacella and Bridget Keane. --
132 BACKSTORY In her #WLAM2023 Instagram challenge-winning entry, Amanda Carmen Bower, Student ASLA, moves easily between real and virtual space. --

July 2023: Fort Negley
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20 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Green infrastructure plays well at a Seattle water treatment plant; the sculpture formerly known as Marabar finds a new home; an innovative trust for Biohabitats ensures a seat for nature; Exhibit Columbus reflects on Mill Race Park; a resort design by EDSA floats above the mangroves, and more. --
44 MINDS Gateway Games by Maci Nelson, Associate ASLA The Landscape Nerd's Maci Nelson and biochemist Frank Tedeschi explore links between landscape design and Dungeons & Dragons. --
52 DETAILS Top of the Rock by Zach Mortice Terrain-NYC carves a serene, verdant entryway for a supportive housing center in the Bronx atop a pile of sparkling quartz schist. --
62 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Power Plants Eye-popping new releases for gardens and landscapes. --
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70 Tracing Bass Street by Kofi Boone, FASLA; Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA From its beginnings as a Union fort during the Civil War through New Deal reconstruction and 20th-century urban renewal, Nashville's Fort Negley embodies a complex history that reflects the contradictions of the South. After waves of protest from the fort's displaced Black descendant community, a master plan by HDLA makes room for their stories to emerge. --
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96 Finding the Light by Jimena Martignoni Following the commission of a James Turrell Skyspace in Uruguay, a design competition focused attention on the coastal landscape. The winning proposal included a sunken piazza from which the artwork appears to rise, framed by local stone and native plantings. --
106 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Mind the Milieu by Julian Raxworthy A review of Mise-en-Scene: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes, by Chris Reed and Mike Belleme. --
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Design Workshop's linear park takes a meandering approach to manage 100 year storms in an arid zone. --

AUGUST 2023: Vlan Paysages
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20 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Pitching in to build a park in Green River, Utah; sea-level rise speeds up in the Southeast; a critic calls for a new approach to Dallas's Dealey Plaza; finding sustainable stone is now easier; a public garden designed for neurodivergence, and more. --
46 WATER Farm to Water Table by Lisa Owens Viani Despite last winter's drenching rains, California's water supply remains in peril, and the state's booming agricultural sector is both the most vulnerable and most voracious consumer. Can a plan that pays to fallow land help small farmers and recharge the groundwater? --
58 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Sun Screens The shades that keep things cool. --
FEATURES:
68 Risks and Rewards by Timothy A. Schuler Design/build firms have been working on the edges of the profession for decades, but lately, public clients have been embracing design/build contracts as a way to control costs. Progressive design/build requires clients, designers, and builders to collaborate earlier in the process, which can streamline projects and get them done faster. But some worry that design is getting pinched in the sprint to the finish line. --
84 Set for Life by Katharine Logan Neglected courtyards and rundown, anonymous buildings combined to make the residents of a Montreal social housing complex feel like outsiders in their own neighborhood. A new living street carved into the center of the revitalized complex gave Vlan Paysages the chance to create a place everyone—residents, municipal housing agencies, and the public treasury—could be proud of. --
THE BACK:
110 Soundscape Strategies by James P Cowan Sound design for outdoor spaces is a complex and sometimes counterintuitive undertaking. An acoustical engineer breaks down the best practices for shaping the way good and bad sounds move around landscape projects. --
120 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Access Measures by Sara Hendren A review of The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access, by David Gissen. --
160 BACKSTORY A beehive that buzzes by Atta Studio. --

SEPTEMBER 2023: The 2023 Asla Awards --
10 INSIDE --
14 LAND MATTERS --
210 ADVERTISER INDEX --
212 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
20 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
How to define a wetland, according to the U.S. Supreme Court; a funding boost for Black cultural landscapes; ambition meets reality at Lone Oaks Farm in Tennessee; a tribute to the ASLA Medal recipient Cameron R. J. Man, and more. --
46 GOODS Kristen Mostroianni, Editor --
Fit for Fun Bold shapes and sounds to charge up play. --
2023 ASLA AWARDS:
54 HONORS by Laurie A. Shuster ASLA announces the recipients of its 2023 medals and honors. --
56 THE 2023 ASLA STUDENT AWARDS To tackle the globe's most entrenched environmental and social problems, this year's cohort of student winners served up ambitious visions and small wonders alike, with projects that integrated imagination, rigor, and heart. By Jared Brey, Zach Mortice, Timothy A. Schuler, Laurie A. Shuster, Patrick Sisson, and Lisa Owens Viani --
58 COMMUNICATIONS --
68 STUDENT COLLABORATION --
74 STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE --
78 RESEARCH --
92 ANALYSIS & PLANNING --
102 URBAN DESIGN --
106 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
112 GENERAL DESIGN --
124 THE 2023 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Greenways, campuses, public squares, river trails, integrated housing developments, parks, and urban plazas—this year's professional award winners embraced the diversity of public realms. Weaving public and open spaces back into ecosystems and communities that have been overused and neglected, the winning projects celebrate the opportunities afforded by change. By Leah Ghazarian, Lydia Lee, Zach Mortice, Lisa Owens Viani, Timothy A. Schuler, and Mimi Zeiger --
126 COMMUNICATIONS --
134 RESEARCH --
136 ANALYSIS & PLANNING --
152 IFLA GLOBAL IMPACT AWARD --
154 URBAN DESIGN --
162 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
174 GENERAL DESIGN --
192 LANDMARK AWARD --
224 BACKSTORY A look at what's behind the redesign of the ASLA Awards issue. --

October 2023: Tall Grass --
14 INSIDE --
18 LETTERS --
22 LAND MATTERS --
200 ADVERTISER INDEX --
202 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY--
FOREGROUND --
30 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
Clever alliteration boosts a pollinator habitat program; swapping lake access for shoreline protection in the Great Lakes; the plan to widen Houston's port sparks environmental justice concerns; LOLA Landscape Architects talks the walk in Utrecht, Netherlands, and more --
60 TECH Mirror Mind by Aldan Ackerman, ASLA --
With the potential to introduce dynamic data into landscape models, digital twins might be the profession's first true avatars—as long as the quality of the data matches the ambition --
74 WATER Rainy-Day Savings by Sherrie Negrea --
Syracuse, New York, turned an opportunity provided by a stormwater management decree into one of the country's most successful green infrastructure programs, one tiny project at a time --
86 GOODS Kristen Mastroionni, Editor --
Show Stoppers Some of the best and brightest from the 2023 ASLA EXPO --
FEATURES --
96 Grand Stand by Jonathan Lerner --
Before it became a true city in 2008, Westfield, Indiana, was an amalgamation of subdivisions. When a major storm flooded its newly established core, a design that began as a connective social park, by DAVID RUBIN Land Collective, became a teaching tool for climate and stormwater crisis response --
114 Far Afield by Irina Zhorov --
When David Hill, ASLA, and Emily Knox set out to research the southeastern grasslands, they weren't looking to reproduce a lost idyll. Across five test plots, their team of friends, colleagues, and students pulled weeds, examined roots, planted seeds, burned plants, and then did it again. Through the seasons, they documented each change and discovered not just ecological lessons but the texture that once characterized life in this region --
134 The Art of Small Moves by Timothy A. Schuler --
Gaping through the center of Lead, South Dakota, an open mine pit is both a landmark hazard and a reminder of better times. All around the Black Hills and the Great Plains region, Tallgrass Landscape Architecture has been working with rural communities, including Lead, for decades, helping them see and embrace the unique strengths of the geologic forces that shaped them --
THE BACK --
160 Here's How Social Media Affects Your Taste by Phillip Fernberg, ASLA Social media was slow to capture landscape architects, but many designers dove headfirst into Pinterest once they learned to use it as an ersatz design library. With algorithms increasingly shaping modern life, is it time to ask if designers are using Pinterest or if it's the other way around? --
176 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Little Thrills by Lisa Casey, ASLA A review of Letting Play Bloom: Designing Nature-Based Risky Play for Children, by Lolly Tai, FASLA --
216 BACKSTORY TLAL-LI Collaborative's layers of time and space --

Nov 2023: BY THE FARM --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
142 ADVERTISER INDEX --
143 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
18 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
Water makes a way to connect in Danville, Virginia; mobilizing to save one of Appalachia's few landscape architecture programs; a contemplative arrival to Chicago's Graceland Cemetery; remembering Claude Cormier, 1960-2023, and more --
38 MATERIALS --
More Virtuous Circles by Ilona Cohen --
Landscape architects in France are embracing novel material reuse and recycling techniques --
50 GOODS Kristen Mostroianni, Editor --
Right at Home --
Settle into these lively residential furnishings --
FEATURES:
58 The Outsiders Are In by Beth Dunlop --
Outside Collaborative, an innovative multidisciplinary alliance, is making it easier to include sustainable landscapes in new housing for Central Florida --
76 Room to Grow by Jeff Link --
Savvy developers are turning to landscape-driven agrihoods to attract residents smitten with the idea of living alongside, if not exactly on, a farm --
98 Worldly Wise by Jennifer Reut --
Illustrations by Chip Sullivan, FASLA, and Elizabeth Boults, ASLA --
A new book transforms the ancient tarot deck into a cultural landscape of climate change --
110 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
Nature Without Ecology by Rosetta S. Elkin, ASLA --
A review of Piet Oudolf At Work, by Piet Oudolf, with an introduction by Cassian Schmidt --
152 BACKSTORY --
A post-hurricane retrofit finds definition in a solitary jacaranda --

Dec 2023: Berger Partnership --
6 Inside --
12 Land Matters --
202 Advertiser Index --
203 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground:
16 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
A project by Darrel Morrison, FASLA, gets a second life at Trees Atlanta HQ; Superbloom’s experiment in suburban farming; monumental protection for Arizona’s tribal lands; opening up the Wisconsin Ridges, and more --
36 Climate --
Prepared to Change Interview by Jennifer Reut --
A panel of Vermont landscape architects discusses how to move ahead after a devastating flood in July --
48 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Burn It Up --
Warm up your gatherings with these outdoor heat elements --
Features:
56 Big Tent by Katharine Logan --
Spokane, Washington’s riverfront had seen better days, so the city brought in Berger Partnership to give the iconic park a modern pop --
The Back:
82 Landslide 2023 --
Hard Wins by Jennifer Reut --
In honor of the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s 25 anniversary, retrospective of the sites protected through the organization’s advocacy --
94 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
As Necessary as Food by Alexandra Lange --
A review of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds, by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, with an introduction by Jane Mah Hutton --
212 Backstory --
James Doyle Design Associates sketches its way through a tennis court --

January 2024: Deru A small firm draws out Ohio’s. Underground Railroad story --
8 INSIDE --
10 LETTERS --
12 LAND MATTERS --
122 ADVERTISER INDEX --
123 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
16 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor A taqueria by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves Austin's vibe; new tools help better ID climate vulnerability; a traffic circle temporarily ignites downtown Indianapolis; forgotten brownfields are enlivened as a community space, and more --
34 HOUSE CALL Made to Mushroom by Timothy A. Schuler The design team for an enchanting Bainbridge Island renovation puzzled over how to meet a tricky sustainability target until Anne James, ASLA, had a novel idea --
48 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Out and About New design elements that add polish to public spaces --
FEATURES:
58 Star Tracks by Zach Mortice A tiny budget, a stormwater target, and a significant historic site on the route of the Underground Railroad were all that Cleveland's DERU Landscape Architecture needed to turn a bioswale into a wellspring for storytelling --
THE BACK:
92 An Elegy in Granite by Kofi Boone, FASLA Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA A decade after its opening, changing perspectives cast new light on the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument on the National Mall --
104 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Flux and Change by Fadi Masoud A review of The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century, by David Rouse, ASLA, and Rocky Piro --
132 BACKSTORY Visual experiments by @pangeaexpress explore Al's ever-expanding boundaries --

February 2024: Effigy Mounds --
6 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
110 ADVERTISER INDEX --
111 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
16 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
The city makes good on a Bronx parkland-for-stadium swap; GGN seeds a Meadowshop; the Speed Outdoors launches with a Reed Hilderbrand designed landscape; chasing tree migrations at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and more --
38 MINDS --
The Sponge Evangelist by Stephen Zacks Kongjian Yu, FASLA, has honed his "sponge cities" projects for decades in China. As the 2023 Oberlander Prize laureate, Yu wants to bring landscape architecture to a broader audience and make the case for a "sponge planet." --
50 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Take Cover New surfaces that perform small wonders. --
FEATURES:
60 Written in Relief by Katharine Logan --
Brenda Williams, FASLA, worked with Indigenous tribes for decades, earning trust and building relationships. At Effigy Mounds National Monument, a sacred cultural landscape where damage and desecration had been sanctioned for years, she met one of her greatest challenges. --
THE BACK:
82 Flow State by Jennifer Reut --
Small but mighty, the Cobble Bell by PROOF Projects is both a design research effort and an economical solution for Lake Ontario's overdredged and vulnerable bays. --
94 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
Prickly Desires by Anjulie Rao A review of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, by Jared D. Margulies. --
120 BACKSTORY --
To build a successful play sculpture, sometimes you have to blow it up. --

March 2024 : Main Course --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
120 ADVERTISER INDEX --
121 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
16 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
Slowing down floodwaters to protect Virginia shorelines; new tools for calculating carbon; an Indigenous soapstone quarry will become an educational park; and enlisting bananas to help fight fires --
36 OFFICE --
Who Needs to Know? by Bradford McKlee --
For the latest generation of design professionals, knowledge is key to inclusion. Four landscape architects discuss how transparency around project budgets and contracts leads to better retention --
50 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Go with the Flow --
New designs for capturing and moving water --
FEATURES:
60 Just Add Water by Brian Fryer --
Years after development, Daybreak in South Jordan, Utah, was still missing a vital piece: a community connector. Designed by LOCI, the Watercourse, a new aquatic network, delivers on recreational needs as well as stormwater infrastructure and habitat --
THE BACK:
82 Lasting Impressions by Jennifer Reut --
An artful compendium chronicles 150 years of nature printing through rare and captivating specimens --
96 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
Experiments in Slow Design by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA --
A review of Woods Go Urban: Landscape Laboratories in Scandinavia, edited by Anders Busse Nielsen, Lisa Diedrich, and Catherine Szanto --
132 BACKSTORY --
HKLA’s oversized planters fit a tricky bill --

April 2024: MYKD --
12 Inside --
16 Land matters --
152 Advertiser index --
154 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
22 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
A High Line at the Minnesota Zoo; waterfront design guidelines expand; the U.S. Department of State talks ethical supply chains; Edwina von Gal in a New Urbanist community; and more --
48 House Call A certain sacrifice by Jimena Martignoni --
Teresa Moller made some tough choices when designing the landscape for her home on the Chilean coast --
62 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Best Buds Introductions for the planning season --
Features:
72 The Kew and the Cure by Michael Dumiak --
Behind the scenes at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where the biochemist Tom Prescott has been researching medicinal plants and their traditional use for two decades --
90 Where We Get Stronger by Kim O’Connell --
With contributions from Ron Henderson, FASLA; Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA; and Stephanie Onwenu, ASLA --
Celebrating its 30th year and the 2022 ASLA Firm Award hasn’t stopped Mikyoung Kim Design from stepping outside the discipline in search of new ideas and fresh thinking about landscape experience --
The Back:
116 Far and Wide by Gareth Doherty, ASLA --
Fieldwork takes on new valances during a sabbatical year traveling through Africa --
130 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
Most Important Questions by Justin Parscher --
A review of Landscape Fascinations and Provocations: Reading Robert B. Riley, edited by Brenda J. Brown, ASLA --
164 Backstory --
Reaching beyond business as usual for a Utah hotel --

May 2024 : Flood Prints --
12 Inside --
14 Comment --
16 Land Matters --
132 Advertiser Index --
133 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground:
20 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor --
Toronto flips the script for urban cooling; asking where the landscape architects are in disaster planning; making cities safer for skateboarders; an innovative new dual degree program at Tulane; and more. --
42 Planning --
A Ready Road Map by Sarah Chase Shaw --
Damon Farber Landscape Architects helps smooth the way for a $25 million federal grant earmarked for the streetscape of a struggling neighborhood. --
54 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Get Going Street fixtures that ease the transit experience. --
Features:
64 Free for All by Daniel Jost, ASLA --
The transformation of the 72 acre Gene Leahy Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, by OJB includes a new playground by Studio Ludo that expands children's play, and confidence, in every dimension. --
82 Call It a Comeback by Irina Zhorov --
North Carolina State University's Coastal Dynamics Design Lab was an academic research hub until three hurricanes and billions of dollars in damages convinced the team to head inland where their expertise was needed most. --
The Back:
104 Indeterminate Landscapes Text and Photography by Virginia Hanusik --
An excerpt from Into the Quiet and the Ligth: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana.
114 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor --
Reality Check by Danika Cooper. A review of Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need, by Johanna Hoffman. --
144 Backstory --
Woonerfs make space for people and cars, right in downtown Philadelphia. --

June 2024: Running Water --
8 Inside --
10 Comment --
14 Land Matters --
116 Advertiser Index --
117 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
18 Now Timothy A. Sculer, Editor --
Estudio Bulla's experiments in Buenos Aires; what to do after the floodwaters, and homes, recede; Site Design Group Ltd.'s infrastructure inspirations at Pullman National Historical Park; a lyrical lynching memorial in Fort Worth, Texas, by DesignJones LLC; and more. --
38 Climate --
Estate on the Edge by Kelly Enright --
Perched on the lip of Biscayne Bay, Vizcaya has weathered many storms. Now a museum with a series of a distinctive gardens, its landscape staff works to prepare for, and accept, the bext hurricane. --
48 Preservation --
Standing His Ground by Timothy A. Schuler --
Walter Kehm, FASLA, capped his long and stellar career by quitting a high profile public project. And he feels fine about it --
58 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor --
Leading Ligths New products that lend a luminous glow to the outdoors --
Features:
66 Dreiseitl in Singapore by Jessica Bridger --
Over decades, Herbert Dreiseitl has built a carrier as a global water specialist, called in by cities in search of landscape solutions to intractable urban problems --
The Back :
86 Finding Betty by Jennifer Reut --
An interview with Thomas J. Campanella on the sizable influence of the firm Clarke & Rapuano, and its ''plantswoman extraordinaire'' M. Betty Sprout --
98 Books Mimi Zeiger Editor --
Whose Trees? Our Trees? by Pollyanna Rhee --
A review of 30 Trees: And Why Landscape Architects Love Them, edited by Ron Henderson, FASLA --
128 Backstory The winner of the #WLAM2024 Instagram challenge is an overthinker, in the best way --

July 2024 : Waste Not --
8 Inside --
10 Comment --
12 Land Matters --
118 Advertiser Index --
119 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
18 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor The fight to protect a land artwork by Mary Miss heats up; A climate balancing act in Montana; Rachel Valenziano, ASLA, walks through Rome; storytelling app Yalinguth brings Aboriginal voices to the landscape; and more --
42 Plants Putting Down Roots by Andrea Timpano Recolating a century old cedar grove for a residential project in Southampton, New York, was tricky, but for Christopher LaGuardia, FASLA, patience paid off --
54 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Lounge Around A fresh crop of residential furnishings --
Features:
64 Wild Abandon by Tim Waterman Dermot Foley Landscape Architects brings relics of defunct projects and aged out infrastructure to an urban park that honors the site’s messy history with an ethic of reuse --
The Back:
86 Failing Up by Vladimir Guculak and Paul Bourel A new book by two London based designers rejects the glossy images endemic to design, opting instead for a humble look at the failures and remedies of landscape architecture projects --
100 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Temporary Terrain by Stephen Zacks A review of Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons, by Daniel Campo --
128 Backstory Joni L. Janecki & Associates finds inspiration from the honeybee in all its forms --

Sept 2024 : The 2024 ASLA AWARDS --
10 inside --
14 Land matters --
220 Advertiser Index --
222 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground :
18 Now Timothy A Sculer, Editor Detroit’s Roosevelt Park gets a stately makeover; a high school campus in Colorado blooms in the rain; San Francisco prepares the Great Highway for shifting shorelines; and more --
38 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Playing around Attention-grabbing designs and bold colors to engage kids --
44 Honors by Stassa Edwars ASLA announces the recipients of its 2024 medals honor --
46 The 2024 ASLA Student awards A geographically diverse group, this year’s student cohort tackled climate change and inequality with thoughtful optimism Winners offered bold solutions, both large and small, employing elegant and imaginative approaches to pressing problems By Jared Brey, Stassa Edwards, Lydia Lee, Katharine Logan, Bradford McKee, Zach Mortice, and Kim O’Connell --
48 Communications --
60 Student Collaboration --
68 Student community service --
76 Research --
86 Analysis & Planning --
96 Urban design --
108 Residential design --
112 General design --
128 The 2024 ASLA Professional Awards Ambitious public projects and sensitive private enclaves rose to the top of third year’s professional awards With an eye on large-scale, long-term projects , the winners found creative approaches to care for fragile ecosystem and serve neglected communities By Jared Brey, Lydia Lee, Katharine Logan, Bradford Mckee, Zach Mortice, Jennifer Reut, and Timothy A Schuler --
130 Communications --
142 Research --
150 Analysis & Planning --
164 ASLA/ IFLA Global Impact Award --
166 Urban design--
176 Residential design --
188 General design --
206 Landmark Award --
236 Backstory ASLA’s archivist Ian Bucacink shows us some of his favorite artifacts from the ASLA Awards past --

Oct 2024 : Act Local --
12 Inside --
16 Land Matters --
174 Advertiser Index --
176 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
22 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor A riverdront deck that will mitigate heat; new research on attitudes toward the unhoused; a quarry scar transformed into a water machine; will the John F. Kennedy Center ever be easy to get to? And more --
50 Materials Limestone Book Stacks by Kyle Wurtz, Associate ASLA An interim lanscape at North Carolina State University is a master class in salvage and reuse --
62 Planning Starting Off Stable by Bridget Reed Morawski The groundbreaking for Washington, D.C. 's long awaited 11th Street Bridge Park is approaching, but the equitable development plan designed to blunt the edges of gentrification has been underway for years --
76 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Go with the Show New products available at ASLA's Conference EXPO --
Features :
88 In Their Backyards by Timothy A. Schuler Caitlin Aceto, ASLA, and Nick Aceto had been thinking about the vacant lot in their Portland, Maine, neighborhood for a long time. Then the city's housing crunch reached a turning point --
108 The Woods Are Warming by Bradford McKee Washington, D.C.'s hotter, wetter climate has been a disaster for the urban forest known as Olmsted Woods. So Andropogon Associates keeps coming back --
The Back :
132 Seen and Unseen by Erin Despard Looking at Alan Ward's black and white photographs and the expansive possibilities of landscape --
152 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Parks, Politics, and the Public by Sara Jensen Carr, ASLA A review of Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Moder City, by Ethan Carr, FASLA, with an afterword by Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA --
188 Backstory A water feature that maps the contours of place --

Nov 2024 : Funky Freshskills --
8 Inside --
10 Land Matters --
112 Advertiser Index --
113 Advertisers By Product Category --
Foreground :
14 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Hoerr Schaudt's answer to landscape architecture's maintenance problem ; a redesign for a coastal park in Florida ; central Ohio's rapid vision ; Martian simulants for plants ; and more --
30 Soils Break New Ground by Ilana Cohen, ASLA The Athletes' Village for the 2024 Paris Olympics pioneers how construction waste can be recycled into innovative soil mixes --
38 Preservation Silver Linings by Zach Mortice When a derecho blew through Iowa's Brucemore Estate, the devastation raised questions for the restoration of the historic O.C. Simonds design --
48 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Gate Keepers Fences, gates, and walls that define spaces and protect privacy --
Features :
56 Below the Fold by Jonathan Lerner On Staten Island, a master plan by Field Operations was just one piece of a decades long transformation at Freshkills Park. With the opening of North Park, the former landfill steps out from under a noxious cloud.
The Back :
78 Fiery Forges by Michael Dumiak Shaping a local landscape out of lava flows is just part of life with Iceland's volcanic geology --
88 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor This Woman's Work by Rosetta S. Elki, ASLA A rewiew of Mien Ruys : The Mother of Modernist Gardens, by Julia Crawford --
120 Backstory Martin Rickles Studio shapes tricky terrain in Georgia --

December 2024 : Pave The Way --
6 Inside --
8 Land Matters --
170 Advertiser Index --
171 Advertisers by Product category --
Foreground --
14 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Design Workshop restores a sculpture by a Bauhaus icon; an urban respite by MNLA has a tricky infrastructure challenge; a pilot in British Columbia for nature-based coastal resilience; three landscapes loved by Danika Cooper; and more --
34 INTERVIEW Tooling Up by Jessica Canfield, ASLA A landscape architecture educator talks to Land Kit founder Chris Landau, Affiliate ASLA, about the ups and downs of introducing computational design into a graduate studio on coastal resilience at the University of Virginia --
44 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Glow Up Fire elements with features to stave off the winter chill --
Features :
52 Flex and Flow by Katharine Logan Asked to stitch together a jumple od disparate buildings and wayfinding, Mundus Bishop designed a sophisticated welcome mat for Denver's art museums --
The Back :
74 Speak Out by Stassa Edwards The Cultural Landscape Foundation's 2024 Landslide campaign highlights protest sites at risk of disappearing from public memory --
86 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Divided Terrain, Defiant Ground by Fadi Masoud A review of Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americans, edited by Eric Avila and Thaisa Way, FASLA --
180 Backstory Conner Landscape Architects designs a stormwater solution for a compact space in Tampa, Florida --
Special Advertising Section : PD - 1 LAM 2025 Product Directory The Annual guide for specifiers includes the latest in lumber, decking, and edging ; park and recreation equipment; surfaces and materials ; furnishings ; lighting ; green walls and roofs, and more --

January 2025 : Lango Hansen --
6 Inside --
10 Land Matters --
98 Advertiser Index --
99 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground :
14 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Odessa's Bee Landscaping Bureau works around the war ; outcry over threats to Florida state parks from development ; Tulsa's Gathering Place a new river link ; accounting for disaster funding ; and more --
30 Plants Horticulture and High Water by Bradfor Mckee In western North Carolina, ornamental nursery growers dig out after the damage from Hurricane Helene --
40 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Good Guides Sophisticated ways to enhance safety and security --
Features :
48 Lots in Common by Lydia Lee At Slabtown, the choice to lead with a landscape by Lango Hansen Landscape Architects allows Portland, Oregon's newest mixed use neighborhood to avoid the mistakes of the past --
The Back :
72 In Praise of Patience The winners of the 2024 International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition --
82 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor A Monstrous Anthem by Danielle VonLehe A review of Shrouded in Light : Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands by Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi --
108 Backstory Land Morphology find new uses for relics of Kentucky's industrial past --

February 2025: Mile By Mile --
8 Inside --
10 Land Matters --
106 Adviser Index --
107 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground :
14 Now : Timothy A Schuyler , Editor A new park expands Japan’s outlook on urban space ; an imaginary garden at Meow Wolf ‘ s new Houston location ; using research to improve tree mortality ; and more --
30 Maintenance Future Planning by Irina Zhorov Bringing clients along is a key part of creating maintenance plans for ecological designs --
42 Minds Spoiled for Choice by Justin Parscher The lack of conflicts over how landscapes should look is a blessing – but a mixed one --
50 Goods Kritsen Mostroianni , Editor Park It Here Elevating the essentials for shared spaces --
Feautures :
58 Connect the Dots by Jeff Link A cycling road trip across Illinois brings attention and Ideas to fill the gaps of the Great American Rain Trail --
The Back :
78 Cue the Sun! Landscape on Film by Martin Hogue , ASLA Landscapes are more than scenery on the screen --
90 Books Mimi Zeiger , Editor The Sediment Must Flow by Zach Mortice A review of Slit Sand Slurry : Dredging , Sediment , and the Worlds We Are Making , by Rob Holmes , Brett Milligan and Gena Wirth --
116 Backstory All staff charrettes bring out the best options at Ground , Inc. --

March 2025: Little Island --
8 INSIDE --
10 LAND MATTERS --
110 ADVERTISER INDEX --
111 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND --
14 NOW Timothy A Schuler , Editor High - tech preservation at Longwood Gardens ; Forbes Lipschitz's three landscapes ; playgrounds with panache ; what's next for D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue ; and more --
32 INTERVIEW The Heat and the Moment by Jennifer Reut California - based Jonah Susskind , ASLA , talks landscape architecture approaches to wildfire risk , climate resilience , and community, and what he and his SWA colleagues are thinking about now --
44 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni , Editor Pattern Play Underfoot but well in view, these new surfaces shine --
FEATURES --
54 The Lessons of Little Island by Ellie Shechet In a city full of marquee projects, Little Island on the Hudson River stood out for its funding model as much as its design. Its planting plan, led by MNLA's Signe Nielsen , FASLA , takes full advantage of both --
THE BACK --
78 Elizabeth's Eye Text by Michael van Valkenburgh , FASLA ; Photographs by Elizabeth Felicella Elizabeth Felicella ' s photographs helped define the feel of landscape architecture --
90 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger , Editor Cities of Gold by Alissa Walker A review of Olympic Cities: City Agendas , Planning , and the World's Games , 1896-2032 , edited by John R Gold and Margaret M Gold --
120 BACKSTORY Supermass Studio ' s " controversial " planting design for LaGuardia Airport --

APRIL 2025: Studio Campo --
10 INSIDE --
12 COMMENT --
14 LAND MATTERS --
134 ADVERTISER INDEX --
136 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND --
20 NOW Timothy A . Schuler Editor --
A swooping pavilion wows in Arkansas ; Living Breakwaters celebrates a milestone ; new life after a big - box store collapses ; the legacy of M . Paul Friedberg ; and more --
40 MINDS --
Cultural Landscapes in an Uncertain Future by Robert Z. Melnick , FASLA --
It may be time to rethink the orthodoxies of protection --
52 RECREATION --
Doing Less by Andrea Timpano --
A worn - out campground in Maine is transformed into a SITES - certified glamping retreat , with a bit of subtraction --
62 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni Editor --
Water In, Water Out --
Exciting products to show with the flow --
FEATURES --
72 One for the Books by Sarah Chase Shaw --
The inspiration may have come from far afield , but Studio Campo ' s master plan for the Rocky Mountain Land Library ' s ambitious residential retreat is rooted in Colorado's ranching landscapes --
84 The People ' s Pompeii by Monica Shenouda --
Pompeii is an ancient wonder but a modern tourist ' s headache . A new master plan by Studio Bellesi Giuntoli integrates the city , the people , and the regional landscape into an ASLA Award - winning whole --
THE BACK --
108 Below and Beyond by Seth Denizen --
There ' s more art than science in SOIL : The World at Our Feet , at Somerset House in London --
116 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger Editor --
Monuments and Memory by Sala Elise Patterson --
A review of Empty Pedestals : Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public Design , edited by Kofi Boone , FASLA, and M . Elen Deming , FASLA --
144 BACKSTORY --
The medium of clay draws students across disciplinary boundaries --

May 2025 : Sure Enough --
8 Inside --
12 Comment --
14 Land Matters --
112 Advertiser Index --
113 Advertisers By Product Category --
Foreground :
18 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Kino's kid friendly river pool in Estonia; an overloved publi forest reclaims its wet feet; Diana Fernandez Bibeau, ASLA, guides Boston's urban visions; a new desert wildflower in Texas; and more --
34 Biodiversity Bringing Bugs Back by Lisa Casey, ASLA Two biodiversity programs for public gardens in the same Midwestern city can look very different --
46 Campus Hard Reckonings by Zach Mortice Trauma informed landscape design by HBB Landscape Architecture softens a justice system facility in Washington state, but it has limits --
56 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Blooming Colorful It’s never been easier to roll out new plants --
Features:
66 On Shifting Ground with Anna Cawrse, ASLA; Dorothy Faris, ASLA; Kenneth Francis, FASLA; Joel Franske; Julia Gold, ASLA; Brad McCauley, FASLA; Guy Michaelsen, FASLA; and Sara Tie, ASLA --
Political upheaval has created new challenges for the landscape architecture industry, but a conversation with eight leaders reveals that they’ve learned a thing or two from the pandemic --
The Back:
85 Back Divider The 13th edition of the Rosa Barba Prize is open for submissions --
86 Before New York by Eric W. Sanderson The New York Botonical Garden makes its debut at the Venice Biennale with Before New York --
94 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor The Ravages of Time by Rosetta S. Elkin, ASLA A review of Lost Gardens of London, by Tood Longstaffe Gowan --
124 Backstory Barbara Keathley Associates designs an elegant enclosure for a columbarium --

June 2025: Tom Lee Park --
6 Inside --
8 Land Matters --
100 Advertiser Index --
101 Advertisers by product category --
Foregorund:
14 Now Timothy A. Sculer, Editor Students’ digital modeling aids a memorial grove; Mayer/Reed garnishes the tiniest park on the continent; Lulu Loquidis picks her favorite landscapes ; lessons of the Blue Ridge Parkway; and more --
30 Preservation Richmond Remembers by Kim O’Connell A landscape plan from Waterstreet Studio helps guide the Schockoe Project’s vision: to daylight the history of enslavement along the James River --
38 Minds Square Up Against It by Justin Parscher Are the algorithms to blame for modern urban design? --
46 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Lighten Up New products to stretch the hours spent outdoors --
Features:
54 Long Division by Gale Fulton, ASLA The story of Memphis is written in deltas and divides. At Tom Lee Park, the designers at SCAPE preserved that spirit in an expensive community focused landscape --
The Back:
75 Back Divider Uprooted: Plants Out of Place, now on view at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History --
76 Change Agents Edited by Jessica May and Marshall N.Price The exhibition Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene surveys the environmental turn in image making --
84 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Our Green Is Dark, Almost Black by Danielle N. Choi A review of Intangible Heritage: Expeditions, Observations and Lectures by Roberto Burle Marx and Collaborators, edited by María A. Villalobos H. and Carla Urbina --
108 Backstory David Meyer, ASLA, has a hand only approach to grading, but it isn’t what you think --

SEPTEMBER 2025 : The 2025 Asla Awards --
10 INSIDE --
14 LAND MATTERS --
202 ADVERTISER INDEX --
203 ADVERTISERS BY PRODUCT CATEGORY --
FOREGROUND:
18 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Tina Chee Landscape Studio’s work in South Los Angeles; shared streets and materials; gophers go the extra mile; and mile; and more --
32 GOODS Kristen Mastroianni, Editor CHASING SHADOWS New product to slip out of the sun --
2025 ASLA AWARDS :
40 HONORS by Jennifer Reut ASLA announces the recipients of its 2025 medals and honors --
42 THE 2025 ASLA STUDENT AWARDS Outstanding student projects reflect big ambitions and deep empathy for people and places in challenging times. By Joe Adler, Jared Brey, Kim O’Connell, Lisa Owens Viani, Zach Mortice, and Thimothy A. Schuler --
44 COMMUNICATIONS --
52 STUDENT COLLABORATION --
58 STUDENTY COMMUNITY SERVICE --
62 RESEARCH --
68 ANALYSIS & PLANNING --
84 URBAN DESIGN --
92 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
94 GENERAL DESIGN --
118 THE 2025 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS This year’s ASLA Professional Award winners demonstrate elegant solutions to layered social and environmental problems By Jared Brey, Leah Ghazarian, Lydia Lee, Bradford McKee, Zach Mortice, and Timothy A. Schuler --
120 COMMUNICATIONS --
128 RESEARCH --
134 ANALISYS & PLANNING --
142 ASLA / IFLA GLOBAL IMPACT AWARD --
144 URBAN DESIGN --
156 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN --
170 GENERAL DESIGN --
188 LANDMARK AWARD --
212 BACKSTORY Teaching through drawing offers more than meets the hand --

October 2025 : EKLA : Thirty years of pushing forward with purpose --
Departments:
12 Inside --
16 Comment --
20 Land Matters --
184 Advertiser Index --
186 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground :
26 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Bolton & Menk renaturalizes a small town’s beloved river; Agency Artifact’s founding principal shares his landscape influences; students at the University of Kentucky help right a wrong in a Black community; what women designers revealed in their estate inventories; and more --
52 Hospitality A place to Graze by Timothy A. Schuler BYLA Landscape Architects reinterprets Sun Valley’s pastoral legacy in a hotel courtyard, using native flora, salvaged materials, and sheep motifs to create a place that could be Idaho --
68 Waterfront Braid in the Shade by John King Civitas reweaves San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier into a bold, breezy hangout with shade, that allows surf, leisure, and infrastructure to share the same horizon --
82 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Now Starring This year’s record-breaking EXPO lets suppliers shine --
Features:
96 Elizabeth Kennedy’s Quiet Revolution by Sala Elise Patterson A profile of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect’s three decades of culturally attuned practice, shaping public spaces through community engagement and environmental stewardship --
112 No Longer Brand X by Bradford McKee LandDesign’s evolution from modest beginnings to national acclaim underscores its strategic approach to growth and leadership in urban planning civic infrastructure --
130 Make Only Small Plans with Austin Allen, ASLA; Diane Jones Allen, FASLA; Haley Blakeman, FASLA; Dana Nunez Brown, FASLA; Leigh Gevelinger, ASLA; Wes Michaels, ASLA; David Perkes; and Roberto Rovira, ASLA Two decades after Katrina, eight Gulf Coast landscape architects reflect on recovery as a slow choreography – of plants, people, and policy --
The Back :
147 Of Note The PlantPop Film Festival, November 15, 2025, in Miami --
148 Living Color by John Beardsley Imagery by Kathleen John Alder, FASLA A visual taxonomy of the New Jersey Pine Barrens blends ecological observation with chromatic analysis and a nuanced portrait of biodiversity and place --
164 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor To the Brim by Azzura Cox A review of The Land Is Full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, edited by Bradford McKee --
196 Backstory Brushy Creek Regional Trail comes together, delicately --

November 2025 : Kongjian Yu : His pioneering work with Turenscape --
Deparments :
8 Inside --
10 Land Matters --
114 Advertiser Index --
115 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground :
14 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor A New England climate studio goes nonprofit ; an exceptional recreation space for midcentury public housing ; Topophyla’s playful plant cards; getting to SITES in Austin, Texas ; and more --
32 Lighting Cell Bodies by Lauren Mandel, ASLA Los Angeles’s solar streetlight initiative is reshaping public infrastructure with flexible photovoltaics and off grid resilience --
42 Placemaking Old Stories, New Directions by Timothy A. Schuler As cultural communities stake out narratives in public space, designers are rethinking wayfinding as a tool for reclaiming landscape identity --
52 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Behind the Scenes Innovative screens and multitasking barriers for public and private spaces --
Features:
60 Get it Together by Jane Margolies In Baltimore , a small landscape architecture firm becomes a cooperative and a case study in transparency and democratic design practice. Now it’s throwing open the doors (and the books) so that others might follow --
70 Inexactly Right by Jessica Bridger On the outskirts of Tbilisi, Georgia, Ruderal’s design for a residential project embraces endemic species and ecological improvisation. A stair that leads nowhere becomes a gesture of place, and a forest of native trees grows into its own future --
The Back:
85 Of Note Throwing Shade on Extreme Heat : Designing Shade Structures for Yonkers, through February 15, 2026, in Yonkers, New York --
86 Kinggjian Yu in His Own Projects by Jennifer Reut A legacy of environmental and social stewardship lives on through the ASLA Award winning work of Turenscape --
96 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Cool Comforts For your fall reading list: a roundup of notable books on landscape architecture’s many subjects --
124 Backstory A little imagination is all that’s needed for MIG’s Green Schoolyard in California --

December 2025 : The Little Project : A playful take on suburban yards --
6 Inside --
8 Land Matters --
172 Advertiser Index --
173 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
14 Now Timothy A. Schuler Editor A poignant monument for Canada’s Indigenous children ; safety first in Auckland’s slash zone; SWA / Balsley untangles a notorious urban crossing ; and more --
28 Research Song for the Cricket Emergency by Zach Mortice A collaboration between a landscape architect, a composer and an entomologist at the Venice Architectural Biennale draws viewers into the life cycle of an endangered species --
38 Water As Funds Recede by Irina Zhorov The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab was a model for post disaster resilience efforts in rural communities. Then the Trump administration cut the funding --
48 Goods Kristen Mastroianni Editor Go, Go Gadget Save time and improve design efficiency with these digital devices and apps --
Features:
Small Wonder by Lauren Mandel, ASLA Wanjing Ji, ASLA, wanted a marquee project to launch her new firm, Ping Design, but she also needed a more inventive outdoor space for her young family on a modest budget. With the Little Project, she accomplished both goals --
68 The Unbounded Current by Katharine Logan In Québec City, a busy transit corridor restricted public access to a stretch of the St. Lawrence River. Moving it gave Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker the space for the next phase of the Promenade Samuel De Champlain --
THE BACK :
83 OF NOTE The biannual magazine Southlands debuts --
84 The Beauty of Decline by Erin Despard What a neglected peat bog can teach about the value of having a disability justice mindset toward vulnerable landscapes --
94 BOOKS Mimi Zeiger, Editor Seeking Shelter by Benjamin Hackenberger A review of Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource, by Sam Bloch --
180 BACKSTORY :
Patience and persistence are the cornerstones of CMG Landscape Architecture's plan for San Francisco's Civic Center --

January 2026: Fresh Slate : Starting the new year in wonder :
6 Inside --
8 Comment --
10 Land Matters --
106 Advertiser Index --
107 Advertise by Product Category --
Foreground:
14 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Designing a ritual for the new year; a lake walk by Civitas embraces winter; Caroline Lavoie’s three landscapes; Richard Haag and Walker Macy in San Francisco; and More --
30 Material Real Talk on Reuse by Andrew Novitsky, ASLA What designers should know about the hard costs, soft contingencies, and design intentions required to give salvaged materials a convincing second life --
38 Planning Included by Design by Brice Maryman, FASLA As park planning increasingly takes unhoused communities into account, one city tries a new approach: Involve them into the process --
46 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Common Ground A suite of new public furnishings that can be as social as the people who use them --
Features:
54 Rooted in research by Timothy A. Schuler Drawing on ecology, agriculture, and the vernacular landscapes of the Midwest, Joan Nassauer, FASLA, revisits a 50 year career spent arguing for the role of aesthetics in ecological landscape design --
64 Space to Design by Emerson Goo Mithun reimagined the Washington School of the Deaf campus as a Deaf led landscape, where everything of tuned to the ergonomics and culture of signing --
The Back:
81 Of Note The 2026 Great lakes Region Climate Actin Seminar, January 29 to 30, 2026 --
82 Small Parks, Manhattan 1887 to 1888 by Francis R. Kowsky An excerpt from the forthcoming book, Calvert Vaux: Landscape Architect, examines Vaux’s vest pocket parks, part of a 19 century campaign for healthy and civil tenement neighborhoods that resonates today --
90 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Cross Scalar Forestories by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA A review of Designed Forests: A Cultural History, by Dan Handel --
116 Backstory Ground Workshop deploys geometry on the Columbia River --

February 2026: Super Fresh : Border squeezes new life into a tired office park --
6 Inside --
8 Land Matters --
96 Advertiser Index --
97 Advertisers by Product category --
Foreground:
12 NOW Timothy A. Schuler, editor Scars of conflict at the international Garden Festival; the new public squares can do it all ; SWT Design’s Ted Spaid, FASLA, shares his favorite landscapes ; and more 12 --
28 Parks The build it brigade by Jonathan Lerner How a small nonprofit does what city halls cannot: Get scruffy neighborhood parks rebuilt and maintained --
38 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, editor It’s Elemental, fire and water features that enliven the atmosphere 38 --
Features:
46 Here Comes the Sun by Patrick Sisson In the hands of BORDER Landscape Architecture, the former Sunkist headquarters sheds parking lots for riparian path and real shade to reimagine the urban village --
62 The Spec Stops Here by Aidan Ackerman, ASLA Forced labor remains a significant concern in the global supply chain. Can ai help landscape designers detect such risks as easily as specifying carbon neutral materials? --
The Back:
71 Of note Fungi: Anarchist Designers, at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Netherlands, through August 9 --
72 Time Will Tell by Michael Grove FASLA Forget forever parks: Design for a 60 years lease and choreograph the handoff to whatever comes next --
82 Books Mimi Zeiger editor Species Revival by Rosetta S Elkin, ASLA a review of Ferns: Lessons in survival from Earth’s Most adaptable plants by Fay Wei Li and Jacob S Suissa --
104 Backstory In the United Arab Emirates, desert planting satisfies both wind brand --

March 2026 : Prompts For Process : Breaking down the AI workflow for community engagement --
8 Inside --
12 Land Matters --
114 Advertiser Index --
115 Advertisers By Product Category --
Foreground :
16 Now Timothy A. Schuler Editor Taking on the beetle invasion ; Pittsburgh’s downtown reawakens ; a zippy rags to riches story in Texas ; San Diego Children’s Park rebalances priorities ; and more --
36 Practice Beyond the Numbers by John Payne, ASLA and Andrew Lavallee FASLA Site management can account for a sizable amount of a client’s overall costs. Here’s how to estimate those costs during the design phase --
44 Details Breaking Down Facades by Zach Mortice A restaurant design by Bo Zhang, ASLA , in a Beijing neighborhood with closely arranged courtyard houses retains traditional forms while inviting the public in --
58 Goods Kristen Mastroianni Editor On the Bright Side New lighting products to illuminate the way and spark conversation --
Features :
68 A Love Letter to Cherokee Street by Timothy A. Schuler Culture, grit, and community determination helped Arbolope Studio design a space for new stories at St. Louis’s Love Bank Park --
The Back :
87 Of Note Designers of Mountain and Water : Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design through May 15 --
88 The Co Design Catalyst by Aaron Thompson ASLA The potential of AI text to graphic technology to translate community engagement comes down to the workflow --
98 Books Mimi Zeiger Editor Leave Your Desk Behind by Danielle VonLehe A review of Landscape Fieldwork : How Engaging the World Can Change Design by Gareth Doherty --
124 Backstory A visual time machine captures preindustrial Minneapolis --

April 2026 : Love Island : Landscape leads an urban revival on the James River --
10 Inside --
12 Comment --
14 Land Matters --
132 Advertiser Index --
134 Advertisers by product category --
Foreground:
20 Now Timothy A. Schuler Editor Preventing NYC floods, not controversy : passions flare over a fountain defending campus programs and Trump threatened landscapes ; a Melbourne park rich in contrasts ; and more --
44 Interview Challenge Accepted by Joe Adler Dan Barefoot was a newly minted landscape architect looking for something ambitious to pursue in his off hours. What he found put him on a path to the 2026 Winter Olympics --
54 Planning Growing Pains by Timothy A. Schuler To access new federal funding for parks improvements, the planning staff of Lowell, Massachusetts, had to act fast. Eight parks and a few curveballs later, the design teams and city staff look back on how they got it done --
68 Goods Kristen Mastroianni Editor Spring Forward Plants and planters emerge with the season --
Features:
78 The view from the Front Porch by Kim O’Connell A plan to strip away decades of industrial overgrowth on Brown’s Island will expand connections between the James River and Richmond, Virginia and create a versaille urban stage --
88 Your Mileage May Vary by David Tobenkin Landscape architecture firms are looking past AI’s generative parlor tricks to discover a surprisingly efficient tool. Now designers must figure out how to balance the business gains with the very real risks --
The Back :
107 Of Note The 2026 Art + Environment Summit : Under Pressure, at the Nevada Museum of Art, April 16-18, 2026 --
108 Landscape Architecture Education Above the Arctic Circle by Thomas Juel Clemmensen An essay from forthcoming book Arctic Practices : Design for a Changing World edited by Bert De Jonghe and Elise Misao Hunchuck --
116 Books Mimi Zeiger Editor Modernism, In Moderation by Elissa Rosenberg A review of Idyll and Ideology : Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In by Lars Hopstock --
144 Backstory Outdoor Practice inserts a family pool into pasturelands --

May 2026 : Rough Cuts : NPS staff on censorship, setbacks and mission loss --
6 Inside --
10 Comment --
14 Land Matters --
108 Advertiser Index --
109 Advertiser by product category --
Foreground :
18 Now Timothy A. Schuler Editor From wastewater to water play in Switzerland ; an Altadena, California park is a phoenix ; in a forest, do as the birds do ; Indigenous climate adaptations in Hawai’i ; the Erie Canal’s postindustrial future ; and more --
42 Climate Water Wise by Diana Budds OLIN’s ResilienCity Park uses playful topography and stealth infrastructure to choreograph civic intimacy between Hoboken, New Jersey and its waterfront --
50 Plants Botany of Belonging by Ellie Shechet A southeast Louisiana etnography project explores various flora from medicinal herbs to plantation ruins to tell stories of survival and peoples’ connection to the land --
60 Goods Kristen Mastroianni Editor Now You’re Cooking Outdoor components that make al fresco a must --
Features:
68 The Year of Doing Less with Less by Bradford McKee At the National Park Service, landscape architects are contending with vanishing staff, stalled projects and a shrinking mandate that all strain their ability to fulfill their mission --
The Back:
83 Of Note The 2026 Waterfront Conference : Future Proofing Our Waterfronts, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, May 19, 2026 --
84 To Fathom a River, Grab a Paddle by Elaine Stokes, ASLA Scape’s Alyson Demskie canoed along the Pascagoula River on the Misissippi Gulf Coast, trading the comforts of a studio for the mystery and eloquence of firsthand study --
94 Books Mimi Zeiger Editor Dry Land, Big City by Carolina A. Miranda A review of The Course of Water : Fieldnotes from California’s Owens Valley, by Todd Stewart and Robert Bailey --
120 Backstory Viewing Dix Park’s many lives through an open door --

June 2026 : Future Tense Tempelhofer Feld versus the city of Berlin --
Contents:
10 Inside --
12 Land Matters --
124 Advertiser Index --
125 Advertisers by Product Category --
Foreground :
18 Now Timothy A. Schuler Editor Visibility equals advocacy for Latin American design schools ; policy changes (un)pave the way for Los Angeles’s tributary development ; Nelson Byrd Woltz rethinks the future campus ; and more --
48 Plants Bad Bunny’s Genius Loci by Marissa Angell, ASLA The Latin music icon channels Puerto Rico’s surgarcane fields, backyards and colonial history into his provocative stagecraft --
58 Good Kristen Mastroianni Editor Shady Business Summer’s swelter in vanquished, thanks to these new products --
Features:
68 The Field, Divided by Michael Dumiak At Berlin’s former Tempelhof airstrip turned vast public commons, landscape designers, urban planners and housing advocates navigate a standoff between preserving open space and addressing social and housing needs --
84 Gardens for a Broken World by Jennifer Reut When Therapeutic Gardens was published a decade ago, students and practitioners embraced the book’s practical guidance for designing healing landscapes. Now, coauthor Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, considers what’s changed and why open space opportunities in carceral institutions shouldn’t be dismissed --
The Back :
97 Of Note Isamu Naguchi : ‘’I am not a designer’’ at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta --
98 Down to Earth by Elizabeth Boults, ASLA Ten landscape designers use clay to explore tactile methods for engaging with terrain --
108 Books Mimi Zeiger Editor Modern Muscle by Elizabeth K. Meyer FASLA A review of Designing the American Century : The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano 1915 – 1965 by Thomas J. Campanela --
136 Backstory Day&Day makes space for tourists in Georgia’s historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood --

August 2026 : Mix It Up : iO Studio blends the rough with the smooth on an urban waterfront --
10 Inside --
14 Comment --
18 Land Matters --
124 Advertiser Index --
125 Advertisers By Product Category --
Foreground:
24 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Arboreal wildfire casualties become art; D.C. landscape architects struggle with sales tax ; SWA’s riverway acupuncture in Shenzhen, China ; German researchers warn about soil bound microplastics. Lindsay Burnette, ASLA, of Colorado State shares her top three landscapes ; and more --
42 Climate Made to Measure by Deanna Lynn, ASLA Environmental Product Declarations can help realize climate goals, but adoption is complicated --
54 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Scramble, Jump, Rest, Repeat New features that ramp up the engagement at parks and recreation projects --
Features:
64 The Quiet Cure by Irina Zhorov Photography by Sahar Coston Hardy, Affiliate ASLA In their ASLA award winning master plan for the Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park, Design Collective balanced revitalizing the grounds of the former psychiatric hospital with daylighting its history and mistreatment of Black patients --
80 Soft Landing by Jared Brey At Baltimore’s Harbor Point, durable materials, industrial fragments, and Indigenous wayfinding realize i0 Studio’s mixed use vision for the city’s waterfront renewal --
The Back:
97 Of Note This Land Is… at the Huntington in San Marino, California, through January 11, 2027 --
98 Streaming Service by Patrick Sisson At the Los Angeles River Integrated Infrastructure Design Lab, a physical model simulates the hydraulics and hazards of L.A. River visions that are decades in the making --
108 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Arboricidal Maniacs by Danielle N. Choi, ASLA A review of Plant Collecting in Another Planet: E.H. Wilson in Australia 1920-21 by Margaret J. Grose --
136 Backstory A public art project by an Indigenous designer highlights the culture of shelter --

September 2026: Design Workshop : Testing the waters for a Lake Tahoe resort --
Contents:
12 Inside --
16 Land Matters --
188 Advertiser Box --
190 Advertisers By Product Category --
Foreground :
24 Now Timothy A. Schuler, Editor Designer look for ways to support construction laborers; Joy Kuebler, FASLA, wants landscape architects to listen; Houston pushes for inclusive parks; Haley Blakeman, FASLA, shares Louisiana inspirations; and more --
44 Materials Even a Stone Grows Warm by Katharine Logan USC’s Nisel rock garden, designed by MIG, reckons with the school’s harsh treatment of Japanese American students and weaves a narrative of resilience in Mojave Desert stone --
58 Minds Design Is Not Neutral by Kendra Hyson, ASLA The race to build data centers threatens marginalized communities with another form of extractive infrastructure. Will landscape architects push for designs that offer something better? --
70 Parks Wilder in the City by Timothy A. Schuler Beyond crowd pleasing amenities, Downtown Cary Park in North Carolina, designed by OJB Landscape Architecture, is an experiment in biodiversity management where wildlife experience also matters. --
84 Goods Kristen Mastroianni, Editor Ready for Their Close Up New products and updated favorites on the floor at 2026 EXPO --
Features :
96 In the Clear by Jonathan Lerner Design Workshop’s muted, water quality focused design for the sprawling Edgewood Tahoe Resort aims to protect Lake Tahoe’s unique character from overuse --
114 Transit Lines Come Alive by Bradford McKee For public practitioners, the expanding rail systems in Los Angeles, Pittsburg, and Seattle are shifting the thinking about plant palettes, maintenance, and regional character --
130 Growing Where You’re Planted by Zach Mortice Few landscape architects get the change to put their stamps on their hometown’s postindustrial future the way Omnes founder Laura Stedenfeld, ASLA has done in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley --
The Back:
153 Of Note The International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, in Grand Métis, Quebec, through October 4, 2026 --
154 Civic Baselines by Joe Adler The United States Tennis Association’s Future Courts competition invites students to loosen the familiar boundaries of tennis, remagining a classic sports landscape as a distinct, climate-responsive , and resource focused infrastructure investment --
170 Books Mimi Zeiger, Editor Ever Afters by Ashley J. Hahn A review of Design Through Time: Evolving Landscapes, from Alcatraz to Prospect Park, by Mark H. Hough, FASLA --
200 Backstory Enjoying tallgrass prairie from a distance, in Austin, Texas --

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