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- You have accessRestricted accessThe Landscape ProjectRichard C. SmardonLandscape Journal, November 2024, 43 (2) 115-116; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.2.115Richard C. SmardonRichard C. Smardon is a SUNY distinguished service professor emeritus at SUNY‐College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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- You have accessRestricted accessPlant Life: The Entangled Politics of AfforestationJohn Dean DavisLandscape Journal, November 2024, 43 (2) 117-118; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.2.117John Dean DavisJohn Dean Davis is an environmental and engineering historian and assistant professor at Ohio State University, where he teaches landscape history. He is currently working on a book about engineering and landscape in the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
- You have accessRestricted accessLandscape Fascinations and Provocations: Reading Robert B. RileyRichard C. SmardonLandscape Journal, May 2024, 43 (1) 125-126; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.1.125
- You have accessRestricted accessBeyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking RoutesRichard C. SmardonLandscape Journal, May 2024, 43 (1) 133-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.1.133Richard C. SmardonRichard C. Smardon is a SUNY distinguished service professor emeritus at SUNY‐College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
- You have accessRestricted accessArchitecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape: Blood, Soil, BuildingJeremy FosterLandscape Journal, May 2024, 43 (1) 129-133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.1.129Jeremy FosterTrained as an architect and landscape architect, Jeremy Foster, a PhD in cultural and historical geography, is interested in the opportunities landscape thinking offers for environmental understanding, interpretation, and design practice. At Cornell from 2003 to 2021, he taught design, theory, and history to students in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and the humanities and social sciences, working in contexts across the globe. Foster’s transdisciplinary research into how built/grown landscapes are produced and reproduced through the entanglement of cultural discourses, representational regimes, environmental processes, and socio‐material practices has appeared in multiple journals and edited volumes.
- You have accessRestricted accessLandscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to TodayBeichen YuLandscape Journal, May 2024, 43 (1) 126-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.43.1.126Beichen YuDr. Beichen Yu is a color researcher and designer specializing in environmental color studies and multidisciplinary color designs. She holds an MA in urban design and a PhD in landscape architecture from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Yu is currently translating her pioneering PhD research into a forthcoming book from Routledge. With expertise in the social semiotics of color and quantitative analysis of color data, her research explores the changes in color design within global urban spaces over the past 20 years, particularly under the lens of urbanisms of color. Dr. Yu has made significant contributions through conference presentations, journal articles, and books, sparking discussions on saturated colors in contemporary urban environments. She actively engages in the academic community as a member of the AIC Color Group and The Colour Group (UK) and serves as a reviewer for journals such as Color Research & Application and for Routledge publications.