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June LAM: Where's My Stuff?

A warehouse at Hunter Industries, in San Marcos, California. Hunter has been experiencing shortages of plastics and electronic controllers for its irrigation systems. Photo courtesy of Hunter Industries.

ON THE COVER: How the supply chain crisis is affecting landscape architects.

Featured Story: “Your Stuff is Coming (Someday),” by Bradford McKee. By now we’ve all heard the news: From plants to pipe, furnishings to fir, materials for landscape projects are hard to find, hard to price—and delayed, delayed, delayed. A look inside the nuts and bolts of where your nuts and bolts are (and aren’t), from the manufacturers and growers that serve the profession.

Also in the issue:

  • The Upside of Downstream,” by Jeff Link. In mountainous West Virginia, topography is destiny, and that means more floodwater risk to people and infrastructure in the floodplains as the planet heats up. As small towns and cities look to federal dollars to rebuild after flooding and advance resiliency, it’s the local history and landscape architects that deliver for residents.
  • NOW: Training for the formerly incarcerated bridges the racial gap in environmental jobs; for infrastructure planning, dated rainfall numbers come up short; a dangerous policy for eroding Northwest coastlines; and more.
  • Cities: “Wayfaring, but Stranger,” by Tim Waterman. Along the edges and alleys of London and Marseille, artists and activists lead walking tours that remap the city.
  • Back: “Bog Wild,” by Jimena Martignoni. Argentina’s remote peatlands offer unparalleled opportunities for carbon-capture—if they aren’t disturbed. They’re also devastatingly beautiful.
  • Book Review: Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities by Tim Gill.
  • Backstory: Andropogon Associates’s new vision for Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Coming online from the June issue on Landscapearchitecturemagazine.org:

  • “Your Stuff is Coming (Someday),” by Bradford McKee. By now we’ve all heard the news: From plants to pipe, furnishings to fir, materials for landscape projects are hard to find, hard to price—and delayed, delayed, delayed. A look inside the nuts and bolts of where your nuts and bolts are (and aren’t), from the manufacturers and growers that serve the profession.
  • “Bog Wild,” by Jimena Martignoni. Argentina’s remote peatlands offer unparalleled opportunities for carbon-capture—if they aren’t disturbed. They’re also devastatingly beautiful. In Spanish and English.
  • “Wayfaring, but Stranger,” by Tim Waterman. Along the edges and alleys of London and Marseille, artists and activists lead walking tours that remap the city.
  • “Workforce of Nature,” by Taneasha White. Jobs programs combat mass incarceration and the climate crisis.

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