Notes
1 Several teams of greater New York’s federally funded Rebuild by Design programme in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy were headed by landscape architecture firms such as SCAPE or West 8.
2 In analogy to ‘Terra Fluxus’, James Corner’s seminal essay in landscape urbanism theory, advocating for a ‘fluid’ and open approach in design and planning in response to the true complexity of cities.
3 Lister stated that Del Tredici’s last book on wild urban plants would have been titled ‘weeds’ a couple of decades ago. Del Tredici, P. (2010), Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide (Cornell University Press).
4 As illustrated on the Nature Conservancy’s map, available online at http://maps.tnc.org/migrations-in-motion/#4/19.06/-78.00.
5 Mel Chin’s land art project for the 2016 LA Public Art Biennial on ‘CURRENT: LA Water’ is titled ‘The Tie that Binds: the Mirror of the Future’.