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?In our language, we have a word; it means, ?They have no ears.? They don?t listen, and that?s what was happening.?
?Marisa Miakonda Cummings, Omaha tribe member
Brenda Williams, ASLA, has been working on tribal landscapes for 20 years, but it?s what she?s learned not to do that defines her reputation: Talk first. Her work is a lesson in when and how to listen, and what to do, and not do, with what you hear. Timothy A. Schuler follows Williams as she facilitates a new master plan for Blood Run, a sacred site carved by the state lines of South Dakota and Iowa and years of exploitation. The photojournalist Louise Johns documents the land and the people.
If you don?t live in New York City, you can be forgiven for not knowing Randall?s Island. It?s not a destination park like Governors Island or a national monument like Ellis Island. It?s where the city?s residents go to play games?right up against a sewage treatment plant and some of the city?s most monumental infrastructure. After years of neglect, the playing fields and recreational amenities get a jolt of energy from MPFP, Starr Whitehouse, and Mathews Nielsen, among others. Also in this issue: A new wetland park for Wilmington, Delaware, has layers of challenge. Jeanne Haffner explores Lawrence Halprin?s unbuilt plans for the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.; the artist Zaria Forman gives us a preview of her new series on Antarctic icebergs; and the first biography of the landscape archi...