The upcoming issue of LA+ Journal invites critical investigations into the theme CAPITAL, asking how landscape architecture engages with the flows of capital — economically, politically, spatially. The call frames landscape as more than physical terrain: it is a dynamic site shaped by economic forces, where design can either reinforce dominant power structures or act to disrupt them.

Contributors are encouraged to explore how landscape architecture has navigated, contested, or been co-opted by capital interests. This includes tensions between public good and private value, and the ways in which landscapes materialise speculative finance, labour conditions, resource extraction, and post-capitalist imaginaries.

Suggested Topics Include:

– Land enclosures, privatisation, and dispossession
– Real estate speculation and its effects on public space
– Green finance and the commodification of ecosystems
– Extractivism, resource frontiers, and landscape impacts
– Degrowth, ecological transition, and post-capitalist spatial imaginaries
– Infrastructural systems and territorial change
– Labour, precarity, and the political economy of the landscape profession

Submissions are welcomed from a broad disciplinary range, including economics, geography, political ecology, environmental humanities, urban studies, architecture, anthropology, and history.