Tom Lee Park is the feature story of Landscape Architecture Magazine’s June issue.
“The radical reworking of Tom Lee Park is a concrete example of how designers can meaningfully contribute to a more robust urban ecology and how landscape and its designers can create socio-ecological change,” writes Gale Fulton, Director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The story unpacks 100 years of history, four years of design and construction, and the park’s visible impact. Fulton explores what makes Tom Lee Park a “park for all”—from its outward-reaching entrances down to its highly contextual soil profiles and complex native planting palettes.
“This park is bigger than anybody working on it because Memphis needs this park,” says Kate Orff. “The whole park is an invitation to make new memories and to have new experiences.”
Read the full story in the latest issue of LAM.