magazine

VIEW, Summer 2013,
Number 13

A few highlights:

In this issue, our most wide-ranging yet, we feature articles related to our new book, Community by Design, a study of the Olmsted firm’s impact on the wealthy Boston suburb of Brookline.
We follow the thread of planning in the twentieth century along many diverse routes, including the New Urbanist town of Seaside, Florida, in a piece by Andrés Duany.
LALH authors Christopher Vernon and Kenneth Helphand write, respectively, on Walter and Marion Griffin’s visionary plan for Canberra, Australia, and Lawrence Halprin’s promenade at Armon Hanatziv in Jerusalem.
Patrick M. Condon, a planner and landscape architect in British Columbia, offers his vision of the “streetcar city” of the future.
Warren Manning research associate Terri Rochon writes about the remarkable 1905 plan for the copper mining town of Warren, Arizona—a peek at our forthcoming book A Force of Nature: Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner.