Mia Lehrer, who has spent years reimagining local landscapes, sits in a garden along the L.A. River beside her studio. One of her latest projects: SoFi Stadium. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) ...

Successful landscaping is more than just an innate desire to always be in touch with nature. Designing the landscape of public spaces, gardens, or even indoors is an ever-growing concern due to how ...

The Romans constructed rigidly rectilinear army camps and arrow-straight roads that unfolded mile after arrogant mile in haughty disdain for local topography; feudal Japan and the Dutch lowlands were ...