Transforming a defunct monorail into an elevated trail was an exercise in creative friction. By Timothy A. Schuler A section illustrates how the access points meet the ground. Image by TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. When the...

No longer just for coastal areas, WEDG 3.0 adds inland waterfronts to its certification. By Clare Jacobson Funded through the Rebuild Illinois capital plan, each breakwater features new below- and above-water habitats. Image courtesy Living...

Firms are sharing project contracts and budgets more openly across teams as a matter of staff engagement. By Bradford McKee Clockwise from top left: Paul Kissinger, FASLA, CEO, Kissinger Design, Dexter, Michigan, photo courtesy EDSA; Susannah...

?On a leftover site in Punta Pite, landscape architect Teresa Moller?s house is a study in give and take. By Jimena Martignoni/Photography by Cristóbal Palma The terraced gardens behind the house showcase many different species that can now be...

Computer modeling puts a new species on the menu of edible fire breaks. By Madeline Bodin A team of scientists says it has found a plant that could help protect communities against wildfire while providing income and filling bellies at the same...

To meet the ambitious climate targets ahead, designers, developers, and construction firms need common standards. And soon. By Timothy A. Schuler Developed by Sasaki, Carbon Conscience is a tool that helps landscape architects calculate embodied...

A soapstone quarry with Indigenous roots is set to become an archaeological park. By Kim O?Connell The park?s conceptual plan includes places for demonstration, reflection, and reforestation. Courtesy Montgomery Parks. Also known as steatite,...

With the biennial Oberlander Prize in hand, Turenscape?s Kongjian Yu, FASLA, wants to expand the global profile of landscape architecture. By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in...

Cleveland?s DERU Landscape Architecture sees big stories in small spaces. By Zach Mortice Photography by Amber N. Ford A plaza with interpretive signage attracts visitors from the sidewalk. ?Inside the Cozad-Bates House, a handsome, red brick...

The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade By Jared D. Margulies; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023; 392 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Anjulie Rao Precision growing conditions in a greenhouse in Czechia...

With Ghost Rivers, the designer Bruce Willen calls attention to Baltimore?s buried streams. By Timothy A. Schuler Ghost Rivers memorializes Sumwalt Run, a stream in Baltimore that was buried in the early 20th century. Image © Public...

Louisville?s Speed Outdoors sets contemporary art amid a new Reed Hilderbrand landscape.  By Mark R. Long  The planned outdoor space sits near the intersection of three major greenways.Image courtesy Reed Hilderbrand. The Speed Art Museum in...

In the landscape for a new taqueria, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves a slice of Austin?s history. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER 

A new housing development in Arkansas is designed for neurodiversity and community. By Maci Nelson, Associate ASLA The master plan for South Cato Springs weaves nature and active transportation throughout the community. Image courtesy Office of...

The allegorical assemblages of the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument. By Kofi Boone, FASLA Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA I?ve been to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., many times: day and night,...

TOPOPHYLA?S EXPLORATIONS IN AI HEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH. “The fascinating thing about this one is that it kind of does look like the finished project, and the layering of the plants is pretty appropriate. The context trees are actually...

Four Vermont landscape architects talk about the state?s devastating floods and how its unique culture and topography could be both a limitation and a strength in a climate-plagued future. Interview by Jennifer Reut Montpelier, Vermont?s capital,...

Dryland farming comes to the suburbs, thanks to an innovative community park. By Timothy A. Schuler An early sketch illustrates the designers? blended, permaculture-inspired approach to the site. Courtesy Superbloom. When Diane Lipovsky, ASLA,...

In Atlanta, a 30-year-old experimental garden finds a new, and more contextual, home. By Timothy A. Schuler 

Piet Oudolf At Work By Piet Oudolf, with an introduction by Cassian Schmidt; London and New York City: Phaidon, 2023; 276 pages, $79.95. Reviewed by Rosetta S. Elkin, ASLA Piet Oudolf celebrates seasonal fluctuation in his designs beyond ideal...

Vista Hermosa Natural Park Studio-MLA, Los Angeles? By Mimi Zeiger At the turn of the last century, the 10 acres on which Vista Hermosa Natural Park sits was a forest of oil derricks. Located on the outskirts of a nascent downtown Los Angeles,...

Letting Play Bloom: Designing Nature-Based Risky Play for Children By Lolly Tai; Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022; 240 pages, $50. Reviewed by Lisa Casey, ASLA

There’s no swimming at Sugar Beach, but the crowds come anyway. By Daniel Jost, ASLA ?It?s 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or, as they say here in Toronto, a balmy 27 degrees. Stephanie McCarthy leans back in a white Adirondack chair and digs her feet...

Prodded by new laws, designers join France?s emerging circular economy. By Ilana Cohen A detail by Wagon Landscaping shows an asphalt topcoat transformed into mulch. Photo by Yann Monel. Architecture 2030 estimates that the embodied carbon of...

Hoerr Schaudt?s revamped entry to Graceland Cemetery helps visitors slow down. By Zach Mortice