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Kate Orff: “Hiding in Plain Sight Is the Total Collapse of Landscape Systems”

Kate Orff on landscape architecture as activism, the limits of "buffering," Petrochemical America, Living Breakwaters, and why the profession must look beyond individual projects to the larger ecological systems already in collapse.

Kate Orff: “Hiding in Plain Sight Is the Total Collapse of Landscape Systems”

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