Landscape Links for the week 10-17 March 2013

Charles Birnbaum on the future of landscape architecture | Charles Birnbaum | Dwell
Landscape architecture, however, has fared worse. In fact, fewer than 2,500 of the 80,000-plus National Register sites boast any significant landscape design.

Adapting to climate change on the Mississippi | Washington University in St.Louis
In the political realm, climate change remains a point of debate. But for architects, engineers, urban designers and others charged with managing its effects—the storms and floods followed, whiplash style, by drought and water scarcity—the evidence is in.

The City in 2050: Bridging the Gaps and Bringing into Focus the Future of Cities | Carla Guerrera | Stantec Is
The next four decades are full of opportunity for growth but require adaptability, and resiliency.

Los Angeles 2013 | LA Times
On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013.

A New Movement for The New City: Reallocating Space Away from the Car | Bruce McVean | This Big City
If the private car’s time is up, the age of the bicycle is just beginning. Bikes, the ultimate form of private urban transport, are space efficient, genuinely zero emissions, healthy, sociable, affordable and fun.

Citizens are key to shaping the city | Marian Scott | The Gazette
Citizens need to do whatever it takes to make their voices heard, Lambert said. “Take to the streets with placards and petitions. Because when you get the public involved, just look at the Old Port,” she said.

Camden Amphitheatre & Public Library Receive National Historic Landmark Status | Alice McFadden | The Free Press
The Camden Amphitheatre and Public Library is one of the few public projects of Fletcher Steele, one of America’s premier practitioners of 20th-century landscape design.