2012
• Landscape historian Ethan Carr writes about The Best Planned City in the World, linking the seminal design with a range of other types of parks—including Colonial Williamsburg, designed by Arthur A. Shurcliff, the subject of a forthcoming book by Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and segregated state parks in the South, the topic of a forthcoming book by William O’Brien.
• Landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh contributes an article about his experiences creating parks throughout the United States.
• Preeminent preservationist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers reflects on changes in urban parks since the 1980s.
• Landscape architect Kelly Comras writes on Ruth Shellhorn’s work at Disneyland.
• Preservation challenges at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo, designed by Olmsted & Vaux.
• Historian Marjorie White discusses Warren H. Manning’s design for Mountain Brook Estates in Birmingham, Alabama.
• Historical landscape architect James O’Day reports on the new Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy.
• Artist and historian Anita Bracalente traces the history of the parklike campus of the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
• Jane Roy Brown contributes an article on the vast and somber Flight 93 Memorial and National Park, in Somerset County, PA.
• Caroline Loughlin is named 2012 LALH Preservation Hero.