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TRANSGRESSIVE PRACTICES TO TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES: LANDSCAPE CHANGE, FAST & SLOW BY MAGGIE HANSEN; AUSTIN, TEXAS: THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, 2024; 124 PAGES, $30. The 16th entry into the Center for American Architecture and Design’s Centerline series, this edited volume brings together the proceedings of the 2023 Meadows Symposium, organized by Maggie Hansen, an assistant professor of landscape architecture. Contributions from Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, FASLA; Alison Hirsch; Diane Jones Allen, FASLA; and Margie Ruddick also include excerpts from the conversations that came out of the presentations. Hansen, provoked by the rapidly changing climate and its outsize impact on vulnerable populations, calls to “reposition design professionals from being instruments of existing policy to catalysts for policy change.” LANDSCAPE’S ROLE…