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Landscape Architecture Magazine

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FOREGROUND

Grand Green Osaka Expands Japan’s Idea of Public Space

At Meow Wolf, Real-World Roots for a Fictional Garden

What City Trees Need Now

3 LANDSCAPES • What three designed landscapes have most influenced your work?

DETAIL

Future Planning • As ecological designs become the norm, maintenance isn’t keeping up. Some firms are finding solutions.

Spoiled for Choice • If debates over style are silly, false, and passé, they can also make clear what is at stake.

Park It Here • Bold and functional pieces for public spaces.

FEATURES

CONNECT THE DOTS • BEHIND THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE THE GREAT AMERICAN RAIL-TRAIL, ONE MILE AT A TIME.

THE BACK

LANDSCAPES ON FILM • More than simply backdrops for cinematic action, landscapes carry narrative and visual weight on screen.

THE SEDIMENT MUST FLOW • SILT SAND SLURRY: DREDGING, SEDIMENT, AND THE WORLDS WE ARE MAKING

BOOKS OF INTEREST • A PEER-REVIEWED SERIES AND A BELOVED CLASSIC REISSUED.

BACKSTORY • A MODEL MAKES THE MOMENT.

A Fresh Opportunity

Perfectly Natural • Michelle Jepsen, ASLA, is helping to bring natural play spaces to children across San Francisco, including this one in the Parkmerced neighborhood.

Learning to Balance Motherhood and My Career • As a first-time mom, I’m navigating how this new identity affects my work, my view on the world, and the projects I work on.

BENCHMARKS • Member news & notes

KUDOS • Member awards & accolades

A Tiny Virginia Island Faces Environmental Change • Lincoln Lewis, ASLA, shares the story of the endangered landscape of Tangier, Virginia.

Rethinking Tree Removal • Tree removal can affect climate change if not done correctly. Here, Jonathan Misrahi, ASLA, shares how new guidelines in New Jersey are promoting biodiversity.

9 Tips for Tree Removal and Preservation • Here, Jonathan Misrahi, ASLA-NJ chapter president and landscape architecture veteran, offers advice for lining up safe, effective, and planet-friendly tree removal and preservation.

Planting for Pollinators • Somerville, Massachusetts, is creating a buzz with its Pollinator Action Plan, a science-backed initiative that supports the creation of pollinator habitats in an urban environment.

What Do You See as the Profession’s Biggest Challenge?