LA+ Pleasure

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LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design is the first truly interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture. Within its pages you will hear not only from designers, but also from historians, artists, lawyers, psychologists, ecologists, planners, scientists, philosophers, and many more besides. Our aim at LA+ is to reveal connections and build collaborations between landscape architecture/urban design and other disciplines by exploring each issue's theme from multiple perspectives. The journal features a range of contribution types including essays, interviews, design criticism, graphic features, illustrations, and provocations: short-form pieces designed to provoke and inspire readers. LA+ brings you a rich collection of contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually. We design cities, landscapes and products for many reasons but as much as anything we do so for pleasure. From the new horizons of global tourism to the design of your local park, from the acceptable to the illicit, this issue of LA+ charts the economy, psychology and, above all, the spatiality of pleasure. LA+ PLEASURE explores how the production and consumption of pleasure impacts our cities, our landscapes and ourselves. LA+ PLEASURE has an exciting line-up of global writers from architecture, planning, environmental psychology, philosophy, history, marketing & tourism, cultural studies, geography, sociology, art, and landscape architecture.

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Dr. Tatum L. Hands is Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, produced at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. From 2003 to 2013, she was Director of a project consultancy specialising in parliamentary reports.