Issue Archives IN THIS ISSUE 17_10.31.2012
In This Issue:
  • Review> Ecology of Means
    Jeffrey Hogrefe reviews Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order by Thomas Princen.
  • In Detail> Governors Island
    With construction progressing, West 8 discusses the landscape transformation of a New York jewel.
  • Comment> Laura Starr
    Incoming ASLA NY president on the fertile future of landscape architecture in New York.
  • Polishing the Necklace
    Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway restored by city, feds.
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  • Editorial> Landscape Architecture's Ascendance
    Alan G. Brake on the growing importance of landscape architecture.
  • Music Island
    Brooklyn's Prospect Park restores portion of Olmsted's original design.
  • Open> Park
    Michael Graves completes Newark's first new green space in decades.
  • Feature> Softening Modernism's Hard Edge
    Contemporary landscape interventions are transforming midcentury buildings and plazas to address their urbanistic failings.
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  • Hotter, Wetter, and More Crowded
    Nette Compton, NYC Parks director of green infrastructure, talks about the Greenstreets Program.
  • Food for Thought
    The Fifth Street Farm Project rolls out its first rooftop in Manhattan.
  • Review> Room with a View
    Susan Morris reviews Tatzu Nishi's Discovering Columbus, currently on view in New York through November 18.
  • Aging Gracefully in Place
    WXY expands the Drawing Center's Soho home.
  • Hudson's New Front Yards
    Nelson Byrd Woltz creating public spaces for Manhattan megadevelopment.
  • Carte Blanche
    Nancy Owens designing a park in a massive affordable housing development in East New York.
  • More Holland, Less Tunnel
    Pedestrians to prevail in traffic-jammed Hudson Square.
  • On View> Parks for the People
    Students reimagine our national parks as social and cultural destinations.
  • Goooaaal?
    SHoP may design a major league soccer stadium in Queens' Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
  • POPS goes the Website
    APOPS & Municipal Art Society launch digital platform for improving New York's privately owned public spaces.
  • Up a Creek
    Van Valkenburgh wins competition for new park in Austin, TX.