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Decolonizing the Language of Landscape Architecture

N. Claire Napawan, Linda Chamorro, Debra Guenther and Yiwei Huang
Landscape Journal, May 2023, 42 (1) 109-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.42.1.109
N. Claire Napawan
N. Claire Napawan is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis.
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Linda Chamorro
Linda Chamorro is an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at Florida International University.
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Debra Guenther
Debra Guenther, FASLA, is a design partner at Mithun in Seattle, Washington.
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Yiwei Huang is an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at Purdue University.
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    • THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
    • OUR CURRENT STORIES
    • DECOLONIZATION AND LANDSCAPE
    • DECOLONIZING LANGUAGE
    • DECOLONIZING WAYS OF THINKING
    • DECOLONIZING WAYS OF BEING
    • THE LANDSCAPE IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
    • OTHER WORDS FOR LANDSCAPE
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