About This Issue

This issue marks the 45th year of CELA’s flagship journal. Over the past five decades, Landscape Journal has reflected paradigm shifts in both education and practice as well as the perspectives of its varied editors. Some years have focused more on landscape historiography, prominent practitioners, and cultural landscape theory. Other years have focused more on research agendas, public advocacy, and pedagogy. These collective contributions weave a tapestry emblematic of a maturing discipline and profession.

Six articles, one perspective essay, and six book reviews comprise this Spring issue. The first three articles address policy, planning, and design challenges across a range of spatial scales from region to site. Haley Blakeman writes about climate migrants in the southern United States who are displaced from their homes and communities. Sweta Byahut and colleagues, also working in the Gulf Coast region, write about the influence of multi‐scaled green infrastructure patterns on stormwater runoff.

Desirae Wood shares her longitudinal research on meadow ecoroof design and performance in the Pacific Northwest. Long‐term studies like this one in Portland—especially if monitored regularly over many years—provide valuable information on how design decisions influence ecological outcomes.

The final three articles address the essence of our problem‐solving profession. Marianne Cramer uses historiographic methods to examine published scholarship on the design process, or procedural theory, in landscape architecture. The connections between design practice and academic practice—teaching, research, and scholarship—are examined by Kirby Barrett and Jessica Canfield. Their article reflects on the career paths of faculty members who practiced in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors before entering their academic positions. Finally, Kenneth Kokroko and Caitlyn Hall report on a cross‐cultural pilot study of experiential learning strategies intended to help design students develop nontechnical professional competencies.

In a timely essay giving a perspective from practice, Frederick Steiner shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence in landscape design.

Richard Smardon, Mark Eischeid, and Frederick Steiner provide the book reviews in this issue. Mark Eischeid reviews Marc Treib’s Noguchi’s Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture. Landscape Journal’s book review editor, Richard Smardon, reviews five new books. The first three are Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities, by Ian Mell; Designed Forests: A Cultural History, by Dan Handel; and Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect, by Philip N. Pregill. He also reviews two books on climate change: Sustainable Energy Pathways to Net Zero, by Larry Erickson and Gary Brase, and Net Zero with Sustainability: A Practitioner’s Approach, by Peter Newman. This issue concludes with Frederick Steiner’s review of Gareth Doherty’s new book Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design.

If you are attending a conference addressing land planning, design, or management, consider sharing your insights with other landscape scholars and practitioners. Please get in touch (jalagro{at}wisc.edu) if you are interested in contributing a future conference review.

Landscape Journal’s peer reviewers consistently write thoughtful, informed, and constructive manuscript reviews. Their dedication and service to the discipline are critical factors in the journal’s quality and impact. Peer reviews are vital to the discipline’s research and scholarly enterprise. Diverse reviewer expertise and practice experience are strengths that help prospective authors improve their scholarship. If you would like to become a peer reviewer, please add or update your profile on the journal’s manuscript submission portal: https://lj.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex.