Jennifer Reut

BY JENNIFER REUT FROM THE FEBRUARY 2022 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Seattle’s Freeway Park, Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway, and Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park. Although all three h…

Designers from SCAPE’s New Orleans and New York offices talk about the lessons from Hurricane Ida, in and out of the office. By Jennifer Reut In early September, a few days after Hurricane Ida raked through Louisiana on its way up the East Coast, three designers from SCAPE Studio met up on Zoom to talk

TRUEFORM Tempers the Heat at Arizona State

This article is also available in Spanish The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation restores the work of the Japanese American landscape designer Taro Akutagawa to the modernist desert Southwest. By Jennifer Reut Like many cities in the Southwest (Palm Springs, California, most conspicuously), Tucson, Arizona, has a decent bank of midcentury modern buildings and landscapes. In

“Grounds for Democracy” focuses on civil rights landscapes that tell stories of justice won and denied. By Jennifer Reut As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. The Cultural Landscape Foundation

This article is also available in Spanish The Anacostia River flows into a better future. By Jennifer Reut For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the Potomac. But it was

This article is also available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. Grappling with how to commemorate people enslaved at Brazil’s Valongo Wharf, Sara Zewde designs a way forward for memorials everywhere. By Jennifer Reut Images by Sara Zewde There are a number of arresting images in Sara

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This article is also available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. The landscape design of National Museum of African American History and Culture carries more than a little weight. By Jennifer Reut To be honest, you probably won’t notice the landscape design at the National Museum of

What landscape architects need to know. The spaces made by the culture of incarceration. By Jennifer Reut A featureless night, seen from a bus window, carrying family members across distances to the prisons where loved ones are confined. A former mining town in Appalachia where residents talk about prison jobs they see coming, and, importantly, keeping. A Los Angeles parklet as

Think of the city not as postapocalyptic. Think of it as pre-urban. By Jennifer Reut Erin Kelly, Associate ASLA, was giving me the side eye. We were sitting in a Salvadorean restaurant on Livernois, wolfing down hot food after a bleak circular tour of blighted neighborhoods that ring Detroit’s revitalizing downtown core. I had been talking