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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 59 TERRALL BUDGE FEATURES SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH The Cove is one of six different sections of Daybreak’s new Watercourse, page 60.
60 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 AFTER 20 YEARS AS UTAH’S SPLASHIEST NEW DEVELOPMENT, DAYBREAK WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW. BY BRIAN FRYER MICHAEL BUDGE SMILES as he talks about the hot July day in 2022 that he and Kort Utley, along with a few engineers, stood on a hill overlooking a pond where water had been rising for several days. Surrounded by the newly cleared ground, survey stakes, and model homes that signaled a yet-to-be-built neighborhood, two boys on bikes approached the group that Budge says was looking “official,” outfitted in orange construction vests and hard hats. “They rode up and dropped their bikes by the sidewalk like we weren’t even there and ran down the beach and started playing in the water and sand,” he says. “As a landscape architect, that is exactly what I wanted to see. That’s when I knew we’d been on the right track all this time.” The beach that lured those boys on that summer day is part of the Watercourse, the newest feature in one of the newest neighborhoods of the largest planned community in Utah, known as Daybreak. Made up of a series of ponds, canals, and bioswales with adjacent open space, JAMES GESSEL OPPOSITE The Watercourse is set to be the defining feature of the second phase of Daybreak, in South Jordan, Utah.
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62 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 trails, and parks, the Watercourse is designed to be the centerpiece of the second major phase of Daybreak’s development. The landscape design team drew on lessons learned in previous phases centered on an engineered lake to create a unique and more flexible and dynamic water feature for the new neighborhoods. Located about 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains, the community of Daybreak occupies approximately 4,100 acres 10 miles east of the historic and still active Bingham Canyon copper mine. Originally developed by the mining company Kennecott Utah Copper, now a subsidiary of the global mining giant Rio Tinto, Daybreak was envisioned as a model New Urbanist community and a way of diversifying the mining company’s operations. Kennecott Utah’s Bingham Canyon copper mine has operated since 1906, and the company owns approximately 93,000 acres of land around the mine that has been used for a variety of operations, including storing waste rock, evaporation DAYBREAK DETAIL OPPOSITE N GREAT SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY AREA IN DETAIL BELOW U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR/U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (BASE MAP), TOP LEFT; COURTESY LOCI, BOTTOM 0 5 MILES N RIGHT The LOCI team needed to create an amenity that equaled Oquirrh Lake. Here, they deconstructed the lake’s form until they arrived at a new concept.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 63 N ponds, and buffering open space. Evaluations by the Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1990s found the site that now includes Daybreak had mining-related contamination, including elevated concentrations of lead and sulfate. In 1994, Kennecott and the EPA reached an agree- ment on a remediation plan, and the property was designated for cleanup under the Superfund Alternative Approach. According to information from the EPA, from 1994 to 1997, Kennecott re- moved contaminated soil and rock and capped or consolidated sediments on the site, and by 1999, it had removed more than 25 million tons of con- tamination. In 1998 and 2001 the EPA approved the remediation efforts, stating that the property had been remediated to the established residential standards and that “Cleanup has also resulted in significant ecological benefits, including the creation of about 1,000 acres of wildlife habitat and open space.” WATERCOURSE CONCEPT COURTESY LOCI
N BRAIDED RIVER CANAL CENTER LAKE ENTRY LAKES THE COVE POTENTIAL PHASE 2— HEADWATER FALLS POTENTIAL PHASE 2— HEADWATER TERRACES 64 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 WATERCOURSE PHASE 1— NEIGHBORHOODS POTENTIAL PHASE 2
NORTH LAKE COURTESY LOCI LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 65 “WE STARTED TO THINK, RATHER THAN ONE LARGE BODY OF WATER, WHAT IF WE COULD STRING IT OUT, WORK WITH THE CONTOURS, AND MAKE A NARROW CORRIDOR AND CONNECT BODIES OF WATER WITH CHANNELS?” —MICHAEL BUDGE POTENTIAL PHASE 3 POTENTIAL PHASE 4 In 2001, Kennecott Land Company was formed to oversee the development of Daybreak, and building began in 2004. At first, Daybreak had few of the retail shops, schools, offices, and transit connections that have gradually emerged as the community has grown. What the site did have was Oquirrh Lake, 67 acres of expansive designed waterways connected by narrow channels around a central island with a northern arm. The lake was immediately popular, and joggers, cyclists, and dog walkers quickly populated the shoreline trails. Others came to wade, play, and picnic on the beaches, feed ducks, or angle for small fish while kayakers and paddleboarders plied the water. For all its success, the developers also realized the lake had some drawbacks. “In order to make Oquirrh Lake work, we had to fill it all at one time,” says Budge, a principal at the Salt Lake City-based landscape architecture and planning firm LOCI. Oquirrh Lake required approximately 250 million gallons of waterto fill, water that came from historic water rights used for decades by Kennecott with the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. The JVWCD maintains two diversions on the nearby Jordan River, along with canals delivering waterto users on the west side of the valley, including Kennecott and now Daybreak.
66 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 Budge says that while the lake was full, much of the property around it sat empty or fenced off, awaiting either buyers or infrastructure before it could be developed. “The lake was there and had to be maintained, but the owners couldn’t capitalize on it,” Budge says. “It’s really taken until now for Oquirrh Lake to be what it was intended to be and for the owners to be able to realize the full value of the investment.” Oquirrh Lake and the property around it were part of the first phase of Daybreak’s develop- ment, designed by a team that included Design Workshop, Calthorpe Associates, Ken Kay Asso- ciates, and Urban Design Associates. The master plan included a second phase on approximately 2,000 acres to the west. In the 20 years since construction began, land in the first phase has changed ownership, with some portions being bought by other private developers, and Salt Lake County and South Jordan City owning others. In 2021, Utah-based Larry H. Miller Real Estate purchased just over 1,300 acres of undeveloped land along with ownership interest in a portion of the existing commercial assets from Värde Partners of Minneapolis. Throughout the owner- ship changes, plans for Daybreak’s second phase continued to be refined. RIGHT After tumbling down the Braided River section, the water slows, passing under a road and flowing toward the Cove and Entry Lakes. JAMES GESSEL
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68 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 Kort Utley is Larry H. Miller Real Estate’s vice president of community placemaking and design and was trained as a landscape architect. He says that as the new owner, Miller Real Estate was aware of the success of Oquirrh Lake and wanted a distinctive feature for the new Upper Villages neighborhood it was designing. Different ideas including a golf course and parks were proposed (Daybreak has more than three dozen parks rang- ing in size from small neighborhood pocket parks with play structures to sports fields and a BMX bicycle pump track), but the popularity of Oquirrh Lake was always in the background. “We wanted to create a ‘heart’ for the neighbor- hood, something to bring the community togeth- er and something unique to the Upper Villages,” Utley says. “We thought we could take the lessons learned from Oquirrh Lake and come up with something that would draw people like it does.” The LOCIteam led the master planning ofthe site with Perigee Consulting, a civil engineering firm, and Hodges Design. The project won an ASLA Utah Honor Award in Analysis and Planning in 2020. Budge says the team worked through options that could be engaging and accounted for the differences between the relatively level site of Oquirrh Lake and the site for the Upper RIGHT With play structures and a sand beach, Lookout Park is a defining feature of the Cove. JAMES GESSEL
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70 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 TERRALL BUDGE Villages, which is more varied and rises 100 feet in elevation from east to west. “We looked at the contours on the site. We looked at where open space could occur first, and then the roads and the lotting [were] filled in, and then we started refining the landscape from there,” Budge says. “It was a lot of massaging and multiple iterations and a lot of back and forth with the civil engineers. We started to think, rather than one large body of water, what if we could string it out, work with the contours, andmake a narrow corridor and connectbodiesofwaterwithchannels? Itwouldalso be completed in phases as demand and the community grew. It didn’t have to be done all at once.” The feature that emerged is the Watercourse, a network of lakes, streams, canals, and bioswales. The Watercourse and the associated parks and open spaces are designed to be an integrated system that performs multiple functions, such as acting as stormwater infrastructure, wildlife habitat, community connector, and recreation. The first phase of the Watercourse stretches just over a mile, with a variety of conditions, and comprises six distinct sections: North Lake, Center Lake, the Canal, the Cove, Entry Lakes, and Braided River. The Braided River begins at the southwestern end of the Watercourse. Beginning at a small pond, water flows downhill, winding over ABOVE Edges along the Watercourse vary from grasses and wetlands to sand beaches and concrete.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 71 rocks, with boulders and small islands splitting the channel, while edges are rougher, with rocks and grasses much like those along a mountain stream. Plants along the Braided River section are mostly grasses such as prairie dropseed and maidenhair, along with a custom Rocky Mountain seed mix. The flow then enters a wider channel and ponds that make up the area called the Cove. At the center of the Cove’s largest pond is Lookout Park, an island of sand beaches, with a towering play structure and a climbing feature constructed of logs and cargo nets. On the southwest corner of the Cove, another beach rises from the pond to a level site next to the street that will soon host a facility for renting and storing paddleboards and kayaks and may include a café, Utley says. Cove plants include sumac and purple coneflower. Lance Tyrrell is the manager of landscape architecture for Miller Real Estate, and he says the limited areas with grass are planted with a Desert Green sod that requires less water, can grow taller, and requires minimal maintenance. “We also have blue grama and Atlas fescue used very strategically,” he says. Flowing out of the Cove and under a bridge to the north,the water enters the section called theCanal. Wide concrete plazas come to the water’s edge.
72 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 COURTESY LOCI Café tables sit under trees and sections with concrete steps access the stream. Budge says plans for the area include two- and three-story multifamily housing.Plantings along theCanalfeatureOregon grape, butterfly bush, Hameln grass, and sumac. A second outlet from the Cove flows downhill to the east and into a series of short channels and small ponds that define the Entry Lakes neighborhood, with backyards facing the ponds and access to the public trail. As the water flows out of the Canal, the concrete edges drop away and return to a more naturalized, planted edge. This section widens into the area known as Center Lake. The large pond is surrounded by beaches, lawns, and sections of shoreline with native plants and wetlands. A footbridge crosses the channel at one end, continuing the connection of the public trail that follows the Watercourse. This trail crosses over the Watercourse, allowing residential lots on the east side of the lake to have private access to the water. “At Oquirrh Lake, the public trails and beaches go all around, so while some of the homes are close to the water, no one has private access,” Budge says. He says another of the lessons they learned from Oquirrh Lake was the demand for homes with private access CENTER LAKE DESIGN APPROACH CENTER LAKE PLAN TRAIL EDGE (LOT 13) CENTER LAKE PARK (DETAIL) N ABOVE The plan of the lot configuration around Center Lake. Lots seen in yellow are shown in the illustrations across the top of this spread.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 73 COURTESY LOCI STREAM OUTLET (LOT 09) to the water. The master plan oriented the neighborhood blocks to the Watercourse so water or open space forms the terminus of most streets. A network of midblock paseos, trails, and streets provides multiple routes through the neighborhoods and access to the water, parks, and open space around the Watercourse. The LOCI team—which included Budge, associate designer Marcus Pulsipher, and Grant Hardy, a landscape designer who is now with Terracon—developed guidelines for locating homes on lots with access to the waterto ensure a buffer between the structures and the shoreline. “We don’t want someone to build too close to the water’s edge, and we don’t want fence lines to destroy the character of the neighborhood,” Budge says of the lots with private access. Along with the firm Urban Design Associates, LOCI created planting guidelines as well as a design vernacular and color palette for the different housing types along the Watercourse. CENTER LAKE PLANTING PATTERNS CONCRETE WALL EDGE (LOT 07)
74 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 JAMES GESSEL Water from JVWCD canals is processed through a pretreatment facility before flowing to a set- tling pond at the upper, western edge of the Watercourse, according to John Warnick, the director of land development for Larry H. Miller Real Estate and a project engineer for Daybreak. “The water goes through primary and secondary treatment,” he says. “For the primary treatment, flocculant is added as the water flows to a set- tling pond on-site. Secondary treatment occurs downstream of the settling pond where the water is pumped through 100-micron Amiad filters (to remove debris and sediment) and then flows into the Watercourse.” Warnick says at any given time there is just over 30 acre-feet of water in the Watercourse, and it is recirculated afterreaching North Lake, the current northeastern terminus. All the channels are lined with geomembrane and covered with up to 18 inches of soil, according to Budge. “This actually uses significantly less water than a golf course would have. It is a source of secondary water for landscape irrigation,” Utley says. (For comparison, according to data collected by the state of Utah, a nearby 132-acre golf course uses around 200 acre- feet of water per year.) “And it functions as part of our stormwater retention system.” RIGHT The Canal is the more urbanized section of the Watercourse. Rows of town houses will face the Canal and the trail buffered by plantings.
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76 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 JAMES GESSEL Søren Simonsen is the executive director of the Jordan River Commission, an interlocal government entity of cities, counties, state agencies, and special districts working to preserve the Jordan River and encourage conservation and recreation. He says the many decades of the mining operation using water from the Jordan River make it difficult to gauge the impact of a particularfeature at Daybreak. “It’s not increasing the impacts (on the river),” Simonsen says. “Though the way we’ve used water here in the past was not aimed at conservation.In this region, wateris precious.” By law, new developments in Utah are required to detain stormwaterfrom a 10-year, 24-hour storm event. As part of Daybreak’s development, Kennecott pledged in 2004 to manage all stormwater runoff—up to a 100-year storm event—on-site. “At Oquirrh Lake we were very concerned about keeping the runoff out, so a lot ofthe space around it is infiltration basins and constructed wetlands,” Budge says. In order to use more of the land adjacent to the Watercourse for trails, parks, and more dense development in some areas, the stormwater ABOVE The Watercourse is set to open this summer.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 77 retention systems were integrated into the design. The first flush of stormwater is directed to a series of infiltration dry wells and may be absorbed before entering the Watercourse. “For a major storm, we’ve designed this with a lot offreeboard so water can rise several feet and still be contained,” Budge says, noting that during normal operation, the water level should remain constant. Weather data shows the Daybreak area receives an average of18 inches of rain and about 44 inches of snow each year. Warnick says maintaining the waterlevel throughout the course has been a challenge for engineers. “There are complicated controls on the recirculation system that need to work properly,” he says. “And there have been construction challenges to ensure the water surface remains at the proper operating level. Coordination with the landscape architect was key to making the project function as designed.” Last summer, when engineers began releasing water into the Watercourse, it was done with relatively little public attention. “When we opened Oquirrh Lake, the water rose too fast and killed a lot of the wetland plants. Also, a lot of people showed up and damaged plantings,” Budge explains. “We’re taking it slower this time.” BRIAN FRYER REPORTS ON THE ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES AND IS A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD AND UTAH CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN MAGAZINES. Project Credits CLIENT LARRY H. MILLER REAL ESTATE, SANDY, UTAH. LANDSCAPEARCHITECTURELOCI,SALTLAKECITY.PLANNINGHODGES DESIGN, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA. ARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN ASSOCIATES, PITTSBURGH. CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT LARRY H. MILLER REAL ESTATE, SANDY, UTAH. CIVIL ENGINEERING PERIGEE CONSULTING, WEST JORDAN, UTAH. GENERAL CONTRACTOR KENNY SENG CONSTRUCTION, PROVO, UTAH; NEWMAN CONSTRUCTION, RIVERTON, UTAH. LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR INTERMOUNTAIN PLANTINGS, BLUFFDALE, UTAH. WATER QUALITY AND OPERATIONS AQUA ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, BOUNTIFUL, UTAH. “THE WAY WE’VE USED WATER HERE IN THE PAST WAS NOT AIMED AT CONSERVATION. IN THIS REGION, WATER IS PRECIOUS. ” —SØREN SIMONSEN
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 81 © KAY WALKINGSTICK, COURTESY DENVER ART MUSEUM KAY WALKINGSTICK/HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, New York Through April 14 More than 40 works by Kay WalkingStick depict humanity’s varied relationships with the land while raising questions about Indigenous displacement and reclamation. Presented through the scope of the Hudson River School’s 19th-century collection, this exhibition is the 88-year-old Cherokee artist’s largest yetin the region and originated in collaboration with Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, a Native Hawaiian and the senior curator of American art at New-York Historical. WalkingStick’s interpretation of the Great Smoky Mountains, shown here,references the Trail of Tears, a journey of forced eviction traversed by her ancestors. “It’s about the traumatic experience of leaving home—leaving this beautiful home,” WalkingStick says. THE BACK
82 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 For those unable to make the landmark exhibition Capturing Nature, which closes at the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the end of this month, or to snag one of 500 catalogs printed by Zucker Art Books, take heart. This spring, Princeton Architectural Press has published a new edition that is significantly more accessible. Capturing Nature: 150 Years of Nature Printing, by Matthew Zucker and Pia Östlund, is taken from Zucker’s extraordinary collection ofrare nature prints and illustrates 45 different printing techniques. Nature printing is sometimes assumed to be solely botanical, and while Capturing Nature’s pages are rich in leaves, stems, roots, and seedheads, there are also thrilling images of bone, lace, and stone. Devotees of the architecture and form of the natural world are an organic audience, but this is equally a book about the science and art of printing—the capturing. The accompanying scholarly essays, as well as an easy-to-navigate apparatus of sources and methods, make this an ideal book for landscape architects. BY JENNIFER REUT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARTIN SLIVKA, LONDON LASTING
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Cyanotypes date to 1842, when the process of exposing emulsified paper to sunlight was developed by astronomer Sir John Herschel. This image is from New Zealand Ferns by Herbert Boucher Dobbie, 1880. 84 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 87 Intaglio printing for fossils was invented by Alois Auer von Welsbach and Andreas Worring in 1849. Originally called mineralography, it entailed covering the fossil in gutta-percha, a rubber sap, to create a mold and then followed electrotyping methods.
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 89 Direct printing is one of the oldest methods of capturing natural forms. With ink applied directly to the form and then pressed into the print media, an impression is left, and then, as in this image by Johann Hieronymus Kniphof from the mid-18th century, hand-colored for greater detail.
90 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 Agates were the subject when this method, called mineralotypy by its Austrian inventors, was published in 1851 by Franz Leydolt. After slicing the agate, the surface was etched with acid and then relief-printed with stereotyping or electrotyping to create metal plates.
Cyanotypes could be produced on a variety of mediums, and artists experimented with tone and texture. These images by Victor Claro were produced on linen and appeared in a book of botanical prints on colored fabric from 1901. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 91
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 / 93 S e a w e e d a n d oth er m arin e life w ere p o p ular s u bje cts for b ota nic al printin g. H ere, th e drie d a n d pre s s e d s p e cim e n is pre s s e d b etw e e n c o p p er or ste el plate s a n d a s h e et of le a d. T h e im pre s sio n le ft o n th e s o ft le a d w a s ele ctroty p e d twic e a n d inta glio printe d à la p o up é e, or with m ultiple c olors.
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96 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 THE BACK / BOOKS Landscape infrastructure.Multifunctional landscapes.Milliontree programs. Spontaneous vegetation. Miyawaki miniforests. Pocket forests. Articles on urban forests are commonplace in the popular press. The headlines tell the story. The New York Times: “Tiny Forests WithBigBenefits.” TheAtlantic: “TreesAre TimeMachines.”TheWashingtonPost: “CitiesWould LiterallyBe MuchCooler With More Trees.” Whether a discussion of spatial justice and urban heat islands, health disparities and urban tree canopies, climate anxiety and nature immersion,recognition of the value of urban trees is pervasive. Of course, this is not a new concern. Large groupings of composed or arranged trees—bosques, orchards, woods, and groves —have been components of urban landscape design for millennia. Trees are at the center of Woods Go Urban, a book about the making of woods through the selection of tree species, the arrangements of trees into woodland types, and the small-scale interventions into woodland management over time. No other book thatI know writtenby a landscape architect aboutthe form, spatiality, ecological performance, and aesthetic experience of urbantrees explainshowlandscape architectsmakewoods through the arrangement and long-term creative management of their design medium, trees. In its specificity, Woods Go Urban is an antidote to the numbness caused by such a plethora of articles and books about urban trees’ performative value. The subtitle, Landscape Laboratories in Scandinavia, highlights another difference between this book and other writings on trees. Woods Go Urban is a summary of some 40 years of experimentalresearch at three living laboratories. Undertaken at one-to-one scale, the studies delve into the experiential and ecological aspects of designed urban woods. Woods Go Urban describes how each of the Scandinavian land labs—through their varied sites, edge conditions,research questions, and field methods—explores the entangled aesthetics and biodiversity of possible and sustainable urban futures. EXPERIMENTS IN SLOW DESIGN WOODS GO URBAN: LANDSCAPE LABORATORIES IN SCANDINAVIA EDITED BY ANDERS BUSSE NIELSEN, LISA DIEDRICH, AND CATHERINE SZANTO; WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS: BLAUWDRUK PUBLISHERS, 2023; 384 PAGES, $50. REVIEWED BY ELIZABETH K. MEYER, FASLA EDITED BY MIMI ZEIGER
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98 / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE MAR 2024 The history of the Scandinavian land labs begins and centers around a designed woods within SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) Alnarp, an agricultural college outside Malmö, Sweden. This history also revolves around the landscape architect Roland Gustavsson (one of more than a dozen contributors to the book) and his vision of urban woods as places where people and plants interact, bond, and co-create the future city. He imagined an experimental woods where landscape architects, foresters, and ecologists might work collaboratively in an outdoor laboratory. There, he sought ways of thinking and working where disciplinary practices might commingle and contaminate one another in pursuit of novel insights about the human experience of ecological processes through forest management over time. Gustavsson drew on two precedents for his experiment. The first was his father, a forestry professor whose fieldwork documented broad-leafed forest changes from the 1930s through the 1980s. Gustavsson mentioned a second influence in a conference lecture he gave in the late 1970s. It was a nascent landscape laboratory at the University of California, Davis. Over the next four decades, this dream of a multidisciplinary living landscape laboratory directed by a landscape architect became a reality. Gustavsson’s and SLU Alnarp’s success is shared by a cadre of talented and committed living landscape laboratory collaborators, many of whom contributed to this edited volume. As awareness of the research value of the SLU Alnarp land lab grew, two other associated land labs, Snogeholm in southern Sweden (1994) and Sletten in Denmark (1999), were established, each with designed woods typologies and creative management practices suited to their context. The book’s three editors—Lisa Diedrich,Anders Busse Nielsen, and Catherine Szanto—break the introduction into two essays. In hertext,Diedrich declares the “why” ofthe Scandinavian land labs—to support the design and planning of sustainable urban futures.It situates the land labswithinthe broader context of contemporary designtheory and practice, anarenaDiedrich, a coeditor of the European landscape magazine ’scape, knows well. The three sections of the book—“Part I: Making and Methodology”; THE BACK /BOOKS © BLAUWDRUK PUBLISHERS ABOVE The forest of SLU’s Alnarp campus stretches along the west edge of the railway line, and the plantings contrast with the nearby parks to the east. BELOW Roland Gustavsson’s vision of an urban woodland manifests in his analytical drawings.