Project MUSE®: Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land - Latest Articles
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974398
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The 2024 presidential election in the United States unleashed unprecedented threats to the nation's research and higher education infrastructure. The new Trump administration is dismantling agencies and ending federal funding for research on human health and the environment. Rather than advancing environmental sustainability—by mitigating human impacts on our planet's ecosystems—this president and his enablers appear intent on just the opposite.The Trump administration's immigration policies also threaten the study and work visas that are essential to many students and faculty in landscape architecture and other STEM fields. The epistemological nihilism of this anti-science president is appalling. Unsurprisingly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallEditor's Letter2025-11-15text/htmlen-USEditor's Letter2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®37792026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15About This Issue
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974399
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Seven articles, three book reviews, and two conference reviews make up the scholarship in this Fall 2025 issue. The first three articles address education in landscape architecture—both in degree-granting university programs and in continuing education sessions for practicing professionals. Quenton Bortmas and colleagues survey practitioners' attitudes on various sustainable design themes and practices. Rob Kuper follows with a content analysis of education sessions at ASLA conferences spanning a recent 12-year period. Bruce Dvorak and colleagues evaluate instructional resources for teaching nature-based landscape design.The next three articles have direct implications for land planning, design, and management
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallAbout This Issue2025-11-15text/htmlen-USAbout This Issue2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®37842026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15A Nationwide Survey of Landscape Architecture Professionals' Perception and Implementation of Sustainable Design
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974400
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Rising global temperatures and intensifying extreme weather patterns present escalating challenges for urban areas as they strive to maintain a habitable environment. The consequent strain on infrastructure, services, and the population necessitates immediate adaptive strategies to manage future crises. The pandemic simultaneously revealed and exacerbated vulnerabilities in public spaces, exposing inadequacies in social services and the lack of equitable access to green spaces, both essential to physical and mental well-being (Moraci et al., 2020; Sepe, 2021). These compounding disruptions underscore the critical importance of sustainable urban design to enhance the overall well-being and resilience of urban
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallA Nationwide Survey of Landscape Architecture Professionals' Perception and Implementation of Sustainable Design2025-11-15text/htmlen-USA Nationwide Survey of Landscape Architecture Professionals' Perception and Implementation of Sustainable Design2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®1862232026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Visualizing ASLA Conference Education Session Content, 2011, 2013–2023
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974401
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Concurrent education sessions are regular components of American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annual meetings (now called Conferences on Landscape Architecture). In 1979, ASLA advertised 15 education sessions available to prospective registrants in Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) (ASLA, 1979). Between 1981 and 1991, the number of education sessions in ASLA meetings doubled from "20 stimulating education sessions" to 40 (ASLA, 1981, p. 547, 1991, pp. 32–33). Alongside education sessions during the same time, ASLA offered infant care, "spouse programs," a golf tournament, a piano/vocal recital, and morning aerobics classes. Between 1991 and 2006, the number of education sessions advertised had doubled
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallVisualizing ASLA Conference Education Session Content, 2011, 2013–20232025-11-15text/htmlen-USVisualizing ASLA Conference Education Session Content, 2011, 2013–20232025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®1295642026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15A Survey of Resources for Teaching Nature-Based Solutions in Landscape Architecture Curricula
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974402
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Since the early 2000s, landscape architects have assumed roles in the renewed exploration and development of ecosystem services in urban settings through new forms of ecological design and construction, such as blue-green infrastructure (BGI) and low impact development (LID) practices (Sorvig & Thompson, 2018). These approaches aim to infiltrate and recycle stormwater through integrated landscape design solutions and have become front and center in professional practice and landscape architecture education (American Society of Landscape Architects [hereafter ASLA], 2022).Printed textbooks have been a traditional resource for teaching landscape architecture, especially its foundational skills. In addition to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallA Survey of Resources for Teaching Nature-Based Solutions in Landscape Architecture Curricula2025-11-15text/htmlen-USA Survey of Resources for Teaching Nature-Based Solutions in Landscape Architecture Curricula2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®1443512026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Envisioning New Technology in Geodesign Scenarios
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974403
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Pioneered by Carl Steinitz and Jack Dangermond, geodesign integrates design arts and geographic sciences to shape the built environment (Steinitz, 2012, 2016a; Steinitz et al., 2023). Early milestones in geodesign practice can be traced to Steinitz and colleagues' work at the turn of the century, including projects in Camp Pendleton, California (USA); Monroe County, Pennsylvania (USA); and the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico) (Steinitz et al., 2003; Steinitz et al., 1996; Steinitz & McDowell, 2001). The geodesign framework consists of six types of models: (1) representation, (2) process, (3) evaluation, (4) change, (5) impact, and (6) decision (Hollstein, 2019; Steinitz, 2012).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallEnvisioning New Technology in Geodesign Scenarios2025-11-15text/htmlen-USEnvisioning New Technology in Geodesign Scenarios2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®1693762026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Use Value, Not Exchange Value: A Framework for Designing Landscape Improvements Without Catalyzing Gentrification
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974404
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In the United States since 2012, the Just Green Enough framework has animated landscape architects' efforts to help working-class communities improve their neighborhoods without catalyzing gentrification (Curran & Hamilton, 2012, 2017; Wolch, 2014; Daigneau, 2015; Rigolon & Németh, 2020). This framework has also been widely discussed by researchers and designers across the globe (Rupprecht & Byrne, 2017; Chen, 2021; Anguelovski, 2023; Villamizar-Santamaría, 2024). Conceptualized by geographers Winifred Curren and Triana Hamilton, Just Green Enough has been a major step forward in challenging the notion that only two alternatives exist: continued neglect or gentrification. It has focused communities and designers on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallUse Value, Not Exchange Value: A Framework for Designing Landscape Improvements Without Catalyzing Gentrification2025-11-15text/htmlen-USUse Value, Not Exchange Value: A Framework for Designing Landscape Improvements Without Catalyzing Gentrification2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®1635762026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Making Space for Community: Hardcourt Bike Polo in Eugene, Oregon
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974405
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During the course of the past two decades, hardcourt bike polo has experienced a surge in both interest and participation in many countries across the globe (Noh et al., 2011). While this sport is far from new, having originated in Ireland in the latter half of the 19th century (National Museum of Ireland, 2024), it remains underrepresented in terms of documentation supporting the practice of landscape architecture and public recreation design resources. Because the sport is often staged quietly, without advertising, signage, or clear physical indicators, bike polo can fail to register as a routine recreational use even in many areas where it is regularly played. Similar to park-based roller derby meetups or
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallMaking Space for Community: Hardcourt Bike Polo in Eugene, Oregon2025-11-15text/htmlen-USMaking Space for Community: Hardcourt Bike Polo in Eugene, Oregon2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®877042026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Taking a Line for a Walk: Path, Movement, and View
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974406
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In his Pedagogical Sketchbook, a Bauhaus publication first issued in 1925, artist Paul Klee captioned one mark, probably created with pen and ink, "an active line on a walk" (Figure 1). Varying in thickness, turning and twirling, the line quietly surges as it moves across the space of the page. It is, in Klee's mind, "An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. The mobility agent, is a point, shifting its position forward."1 To the artist, a straight line possesses little visual interest and fails to hold the viewer's attention. In contrast, lines on a walk fluctuate in width while free to loop and wander. Drawn lines are two-dimensional; although they exist only as marks on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallTaking a Line for a Walk: Path, Movement, and View2025-11-15text/htmlen-USTaking a Line for a Walk: Path, Movement, and View2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®795652026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Sponge Park: Gowanus Canal by Susannah C. Drake (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974407
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This reviewer has followed the Gowanus Canal pollution and regeneration issue through New York Times coverage since the 1990s. He has also followed similar developments around New York urban waterfront pollution cleanup and regeneration at several other sites: the Buffalo River, South Bronx Greenway, and Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, New York (Smardon et al., 2018). These are very complicated projects because of the multitude of pollution sources and jurisdictions involved. Urban waterfront historical industrial pollution plus combined sewer overflows present considerable challenges. In addition, flooding, pollution impacts, and lack of public access for some urban residents raise questions about environmental
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallSponge Park: Gowanus Canal by Susannah C. Drake (review)2025-11-15text/htmlen-USSponge Park: Gowanus Canal by Susannah C. Drake (review)2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®105572026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape by Susan Pashman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974408
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A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape is a deep, thoroughly detailed philosophical discussion of the theory of perception in landscape art and in the other fine arts. Its 325 pages consist of six parts comprising 29 chapters with 38 figures that illustrate the philosophical discussion. The author, Susan Pashman grew up in New York City and positions herself a philosopher with a diverse background in law, having worked as an attorney on Wall Street before studying landscape design in London and earning a PhD from Stony Brook University. She has taught Landscape Aesthetics at Harvard University and the Boston Architectural College and is the author of books and articles based on several
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallA Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape by Susan Pashman (review)2025-11-15text/htmlen-USA Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape by Susan Pashman (review)2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®215522026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Landscapes in the Making ed. by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974409
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This edited book is about landscape making from the perspectives of history, political ecology, economics, and cultural geography. As stated in the book's introduction, the essays "construct landscape histories from an array of source materials, including place names, cadastral maps, documentary photographs, magazine illustrations, legal records, personal recollections, field surveys, and participant observations, and [so] frame the findings in terms of various concepts and theories, including those addressing the meaning of making itself" (p. 1).The book's coeditors are Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton. Stephan Daniels is professor emeritus of cultural geography at the University of Nottingham, where he has taught
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallLandscapes in the Making ed. by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton (review)2025-11-15text/htmlen-USLandscapes in the Making ed. by Stephen Daniels and Dell Upton (review)2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®107292026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Taking Action: Making Change
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974410
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The 2024 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Taking Action: Making Change Conference was an in-person event engaging landscape architecture academic and professional practitioners, students, and advocates between March 20 and 23, 2024. The CELA's once-a-year international conference was held at the historic Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza in the Central West End District of St. Louis, Missouri. The 2024 conference was planned as a return to the Central United States after nine years had elapsed since the 2015 CELA conference themed Incite Change j Change Insight at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. The inquiry into "change" in landscape architecture was again at the heart of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallTaking Action: Making Change2025-11-15text/htmlen-USTaking Action: Making Change2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®229562026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Code Red for Earth
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974411
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The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) World Congress is an annual event that brings together landscape architecture practitioners and the IFLA community, providing a meeting ground for interaction among professionals, educators, scholars, researchers, and students. It serves as a worldwide platform to address challenges in the field and explore strategies and solutions. In September 2024, the IFLA's 60th Congress was held in İstanbul, Türkiye, one of the most captivating cities in the world due to its unique socio-spatial position straddling the Bosphorus, spanning two continents, Europe and Asia.The IFLA World Congress, hosted by the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallCode Red for Earth2025-11-15text/htmlen-USCode Red for Earth2025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®209902026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15Warren Russell Bacon, May 14, 1937–November 2, 2024
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974412
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Warren Bacon died in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on November 2, 2024. He is among the seminal landscape architects who led the growth and evolution of the profession in response to the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He worked within the U.S. government, gaining less notice than other leaders in the profession, including Ian McHarg, Carl Steinitz, Beatrix Farrand, Lawrence Halprin, David Wallace, Roelf Bentham, Christopher Tunnard, Jacques Sgard, Karl Linn, M. Paul Fried-berg, Angela Danadjieva, Lynn Margulis, Dennis Scott, Phil Lewis, and James Corner. Bacon clearly saw how landscape architects should and would play a significant role in comprehensive and sensitive national forest planning initiated by the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallWarren Russell Bacon, May 14, 1937–November 2, 20242025-11-15text/htmlen-USWarren Russell Bacon, May 14, 1937–November 2, 20242025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®70412026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15David George Pitt, March 1, 1948–January 21, 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974413
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Each year as his garden matured, Dave Pitt would upload and distribute to family and friends a digital image of himself standing among corn stalks that rose above his head with the following caption: "Outstanding in his field." One of those pictures was the program cover image for his spring 2025 celebration of life held in Minneapolis. "Outstanding in his field" is both a reflection of Dave's sense of humor and an accurate descriptor of his more than 140 journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings publications; his recognition as a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture (CELA); his CELA Outstanding Educators Award; and other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/518/image/coversmallDavid George Pitt, March 1, 1948–January 21, 20252025-11-15text/htmlen-USDavid George Pitt, March 1, 1948–January 21, 20252025-11-152025TWOProject MUSE®49552026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-15