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An Interim Landscape at NC State University Is a Masterclass in Reuse
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Kimely-Horn navigates the university’s rules on salvaging construction waste to pay homage to a campus icon.
By Kyle Wurtz
The interim landscape recalled both Harrelson Hall and the Piedmont?s ecology. Courtesy Kimley-Horn.
Bricks are so...
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Climate Chaos Is Killing a Historic Urban Forest
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At Olmsted Woods in Washington, D.C., Andropogon Associates is trying to revive the fragile landscape.
By Bradford McKee
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More Mall: America’s Most Visited National Park Could Get a Makeover
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A plan to rework the legacy infrastructure that plagues D.C.?s John F. Kennedy Center.
By Stassa Edwards
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‘Floodprints’ Are Helping Rural Communities Recover From Disaster
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In North Carolina, landscape architects at Coastal Dynamics Design Lab work with small towns on flood mitigation.
By Irina Zhorov
Hurricane Florence flooded about half of all buildings in Pollocksville. Courtesy Smith Hardy.
In 1993,...
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Hood Design Studio’s Masterpiece of Meditation
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The African Ancestors Memorial Garden in Charleston, South Carolina, honors the labor and legacy of enslaved people.
The ecology of both the South Carolina low country and the African diaspora feature in the African Ancestors Memorial Garden at the...
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A Landmark Park on the Mississippi River
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Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee provides respite while reflecting on the long history of racial injustice.
Once a city dump on the Mississippi waterfront, Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is now a landmark park. The design provides downtown...
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Design By Fire
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Two landscape architects create a multimedia platform encouraging Californians to rethink their relationship with fire.
This multimedia advocacy platform by two University of California, Davis professors encourages Californians to rebrand their...
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Gamifying Wildfires
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Reduce the risk of wildfire in this board game.
Forest fires get a bad rap, so students at the University of Pennsylvania worked together to change the perspective, creating a board game that demonstrates how conservation and fire management work...
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Fifty-One Miles: Walking the Los Angeles River
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A group of University of Southern California students spends six days walking the 51 miles of the Los Angeles River and documenting what they found.
Once a meandering, transient body of water that brought alluvium-rich soils to the Los Angeles...
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Where the Street Ends
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In Seattle, an intricate network of waterways shapes the city and its parks.
“Water is a place??a clear statement that summarizes the ethos of this project. Crossed, bounded, and defined in every way by water, Seattle has 142 small ?street-end?...
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Where the Sidewalk Cracks
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?A University of Guelph student makes the case for spontaneous pavement vegetation in urban areas.
The volunteer vegetation that grows up in the cracks and edges of city streets is both ubiquitous and overlooked. Yet in his Student Research entry,...
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Wonderland of Weeds
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?In a delicately illustrated book, two Harvard University students make the case for the humble weed.
Americans spend more time weeding their gardens than the 100 largest cities spend on their parks. Students Yuqi Zhang, Student International ASLA,...
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Un Lugar En El Sol
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Los esfuerzos de la iniciativa de diseño Kounkuey en el Valle Oriental de Coachella animan a las comunidades.
Por Mimi Zeiger
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FotografÃa de Michael Todoran/HAPS Agency
Un mapa de madera aglomerada del Salton Sea es una herramienta táctil para...
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A Place in the Sun
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In the Eastern Coachella Valley, where shade is a luxury, the nonprofit Kounkuey Design Initiative focuses on empowering the residents through design.
By Mimi Zeiger
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Photography by Michael Todoran/HAPS Agency
A chipboard map of the Salton Sea...
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?Drop by Drop
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Inspired by the Netherlands, Montreal is adopting water squares to mitigate urban flooding.
By Katharine Logan
Montreal?s Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam is part of the city?s investment inDutch-style water squares. Photo by Roxanne Marcil.
?The main...
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Experiments in Practice
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Landscape architects seek novel solutions to navigate tricky regulations.
By Timothy A. Schuler
The ?pond? in Lake County, Illinois, shown in May 2021, is subject to a complex legal and regulatory system. Photo by Practice Landscape.
At first...
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Envisioning the Past
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Philadelphia commissions a public memorial to commemorate a forgotten Black burial ground.
By Jared Brey
Artist Karyn Olivier (seated) wanted to create a plaza that responded to the weather. Photo by Ground Reconsidered.
In 2012, an independent...
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It All Adds Up
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Landscape architects will need to consider
3D printing?s carbon footprint.
By Timothy A. Schuler
Lindsey Heller examines one of several finishes applied to 3D-printed prototypes. Photo by Joey Neff, Local 528.
Lindsey Heller sees a lot of...
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Doubletalk on Double Site
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Mary Miss has filed an injunction against the Des Moines Art Center to protect her work.
By Stephen Zacks
Mary Miss, pictured in her New York City studio, says the museum did not consult with her on plans for demolition. Photo © Lila...
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Finding Common Ground
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A new resilience plan for Butte, Montana, is built on bipartisan community support.
By Kylie Mohr
Community meetings focused on the felt impacts of climate change, such as wildfire smoke, in and around Butte. Photo by Water & Environmental...
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Book Review: Whose Trees" Our Trees"
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30 Trees: And Why Landscape Architects Love Them
Edited by Ron Henderson; Basel, Switzerland:
Birkhäuser, 2024; 232 pages, $53.99.
Reviewed by Pollyanna RheeA sketch of the ancient Japanese cherry tree, Yamataka Jindai-zakura, speaks to the...
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Ground Truth
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With a new lynching memorial in Fort Worth, DesignJones continues to create landscapes of racial reconciliation.
By James Russell
Image courtesy DesignJones LLC.
Fred Rouse was hanged from a hackberry tree north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on...
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Lot Logic
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An applied research project in Buenos Aires brings fresh eyes to urban vacancy.
By Jimena Martignoni
Custom bird feeders are one of the few designed additions in the lot. During “open†days, visitors fill them. Image by Estudio Bulla.
In...
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35 Essential Gifts for Landscape Architecture Graduates
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Updated and expanded for new grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer.
By the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee*
Well, it?s finally happened. You (or your family...
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Travel Talk
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A travel grant yields walking as art and research.
Interview By Timothy A. Schuler
Connecting a mode of drawing to the experience of walking was a core part of Rachel Valenziano?s project.
Why Rome"Â
I [chose Rome] because every inch of the...
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