“Landscape is a powerful ideological framework for the construction of cultural values.” – Dianne Harris (Chappell, xix)

“The best landscape architects have a gift for fulfilling social needs and expressing human values in their art.” -Sally A. Kitt Chappell

“In the real world, all communities are not created equal. Some are more equal than others. If a community happens to be inhabited by poor, powerless people of color, it receives less protection than powerful affluent white communities. Economics, politics, and race all play an important part in sorting out residential amenities and locally unwanted land uses” (Bullard, 2011, 89).

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

First Draft




It's impossible to see in a black and white CAD drawing, but one aspect of my park that I am hoping to make apparent is that water and its uses are out in the open for everyone to see. I hope to accomplish this through the building of wetlands to the south of the tracks along with a recirculating stream with sheet water fountains to cleanse storm water before draining back into the aquifers and being used as irrigation for the garden. In the garden, the irrigation system would also consist of above ground spray fountains that would rise above the plants and create a "rain system" to water the plants.
For precedence I have been looking at the Bill Clinton Library roof and Toronto's Sherbourne Park.

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