Landscape Architecture Magzine JULY 2011

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8 LANO MATTERS
Landscape architects are helping to plan dozens
of working gardens in San Francisco's public
schools, where kids learn about food, water,
and, not least, new ways to play.
FOREGROUND
BY JOANNE FURIO
12 NOW
42 WORKSTATION
Sudden oak death surprises scientists by turning
Flash and Substance
up in San Francisco, a great Dan Kiley garden is
Adobe's new Flash Catalyst presentation
yours for the viewing, Chicago inmates raise a software offers dynamic new digital show
bumper crop, a sad loss at Fairsted, and more.
and-tell options-including animations-that
EOITEO BY LINOA MCINTYRE make flipping through a bunch of static slides
seem rather ho-hum.
24 SPECIES BY OANIEL TAL, ASLA
The amazing hummingbird wiU try most any
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nectar once, but it has a handful of plants it
prefers for fueling its epic flights. And believe
Play Hard
it or not, there are some peonies that keep Designers know that finding the right elements for
handsome, fungus-free leaves all summer. Plus. a park can make a difference in attracting users
here comes the ghost fern, with its fine pedigree.
BY LISA SPECKHAROT
BY CONSTANCE CASEY
50 WATER
Practice Makes Pervious
With new standard plans for green streets to
soak in stormwater, the city of Los Angeles
is taking its first steps toward cutting runoff
and water pollution. If multiplied across the city,
the impact could be huge.
BY LISA OWENS VIANI
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156 OISPLAY AO INOEX
unfriendly toward the U.S. Environmental arresting new image to people arriving in the
Protection Agency and has been working to United States from Canada at Blaine, Washington.
hobble its attempts to regulate greenhouse
157 BUYER'S GUIOE INOEX
gases. Between now and the 2012 elections, 108 PLANS
the agency will be lucky to hold on to its current
regulatory powers. BY ALLEN The NAFTA Landscape:
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172 FORWARO
Working on the Edge in Chihuahua
68 FRESH MINT TASTE! Life can be rough in Chihuahua, Mexico, and
My, Oh, Myopia
even rougher around its barren borders. But
The new Mint Plaza in San Francisco, by CMG a native son, Gabriel Díaz-Montemayor, ASLA, From a reader's reaction, an architecture
critic detects a potential schism opening
Landscape Architecture, replaces a slatternly and his firm, LABORStudio, have been working
in landscape architecture
street with a gregarious new public space and on ways to turn the city's frontiers into
BY CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE
takes loads of stormwater into the ground working amenities for people.
where it belongs. BY LISA OWENS VIANI BY CAROLYN OEUSCHLE
76 LIVE BY THE GRIO 120 PRACTICE
IMAGE CREOIT
James Wilson
Much had been corrupted in a 1950s garden The Public Process, Replugged
that Thomas Church designed around an A landscape architect and planning official argues
Edward Durrell 5tone house in Dallas. that there are new digital means for engaging
It became Mary Ellen Cowan's job at MESA people who have taken themselves out of the
to make new sense of the place. traditional feedback loop for building cities.
BY AOAM REGN ARVIOSON, ASLA He knows. He's tried them
BY OAVID M. MOTZENBECKER, ASLA
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The 2011 A5LA Annual Meeting and EXPO head5
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of the most intriguing landscapes in the city and
around it for you to see under its reliably blue
skie5. BY OANIEL JOS飞 ASLA
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The second big section of the High Line opened in early June, the way the Promenade Plantée simply becomes Paris.τ'he rest
which brings the length of that elevated park on the west side of of you are wasting your time.
Manhattan to almost a mile and a half. In the to the open
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ing, people sounded even more excited about this new stretch 1 wondered what Trautman made of this assessment. She was in
than出ey did about the first 0肘， two years ago, if that is possible. a hurry, but she was circumspect. "We're looking at our trestle
By now, they know the magic of the place. difTerently than other cities might," she says. "It's a piece of a
greater puzzle." The trestle is viewed not as a destination so
One person gunning to see it was Susan Trautman, the executive much as a link between destinations. Trautman says her agency
director of the Great Rivers Greenway, a regional agency created is under no illusion that it will create another High Line. "Ours
to develop a 600-mile network of trails across the St. Louis area will refl.ect St. Louis," she says.
on a tenth of a cent's sales tax. 1 happened to call Trautman the
morning she was visiting New York and heading for the High But have these dties thought about the huge costs? Rybczynslci
Line, less than a week after it had opened. In 2005, Trautman's reminded them that the High Line has cost $152 million so far,
agency bought an old 5-mi1e elevated rail line just north of much ofi t from fund-raising. In Philadephia, Paul Levy, the presi
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downtown St. Louis called the Iron Horse TresÙe. The plan is to dent of the Center City Dis位ict， a business improvement district,
turn it into a park. "It's not going to happen next year," she says. is among those pushing to turn the mile-Iong Reading Viaduct
"But it's going to happen over time." into a park near the city's heart. He says the cost is likely in the $35
million to $40 million
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Yet, to hear Witold Rybczynski, Honorary ASLA, tell it, St. Louis asset. The cost to tear the structure down would be quite a bit
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is lcidding itsel as are Chicago, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and any more, he said, because tons of contaminants would be liberated
other city that is looking hope臼lly at its old infrastlUcture and and need controlling, whereas a renovation would keep the toxic
finding it pregnant wi由 publicamen即. Just before the High Line hazards largely in place. Besides, fixing up the viaduct would
opened, Rybczynski, the Penn urbanism professor and au出时， likely goose a potentially strong urban housing market nearby;
wrote a gloomy op-ed in the New York Times to call out these cities for now, if anything, Levy says, it's a drag on property values.
with High Line dreams and warn them that building such a park
is "a tougher proposition than they think" and that "it probably The High Line and these other potential projects are pieces of
won't be worth the effort." After all, he said: culturallandscapes in which the public can take a deep interest.
are not likely to be preserved at all costs but at costs validated
τbey
American cities are always loolcing for quick fixes to revive their by innumerable benefits. That's a more interesting story than
m ibund downtowns. Sadly, the dismal record of failed urban their complete erasure would be. So let Philadelphia, St. Louis,
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design strategies is long: downtown shopping malls, pedestri and the others try and let them fail, if they must. But if these cit
anized streets, underground passages, skyways, monorails, ies were to b山ld their own elevated rail parks, and those parks
festival marketplaces, downtown stadiums-and that most were to thrive on their own particular it wouldn't be the
cha口旧，
elusive fix of all, iconic cultural buildings. It appears likely that least bit surprising.
we will soon be adding elevated parks to the list.
Yikes, what a downer! Our cities have become islands of rnisfit
toys. 白le High Line, Rybczynski said, works only because it's BRAOFORO MCKEE
just another ingredient in rich, dense Manhattan一-same with EDITOR
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