“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).

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Wetlands

Changing a community: 2050

The above photo shows Greenhill Apartment from Riverside Drive. It is currently fenced in (or fenced out?)
Could a park in the area bring safety? Could it bring down the fences? I think so.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Starting to work towards a defense



There still needs to be a board inserted here that would summarize how I got to 37915.





I think this is where I will need to insert a slide detailing how I chose General Shale.





In between here will be a few slides. Of course one with the plan, but also one that consolidates my site inventory.



Following will be two slides, much like the one above, with my other two sections. And, a final slide with "details" of how the different programs should be built. Items to be included, possible vegetation, addressing CPTED... this might end up being multiple slides.

Friday, April 13, 2012

A step back...Photo Inventory


In an attempt to follow the three T's I've created a master photo inventory panel of the site as it appears today. It's important to have an overall sense of place, especially in this thesis as part of the EJ that I am trying to address is the fact that this community surrounds a former industrial site. So, these pictures tell the story of what this community lives with and looks at every day. And hopefully, they illustrate why it is so important to clean up and repurpose not only this site, but other sites like it.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

2050?


In my pre defense I was asked what I thought the implications of my plan would be. What would my park look like in the year 2050? Well, I imagine that by then it will have become an integrated aspect of not only 37915 but of Knox County as a whole. I hope that it will be loved and used by a broad range of people from both in 37915 and all over the county.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Plan?

Treating Water





The above slide hopefully shows the relationship of the new park and water treatment area to the existing KUB Water Treatment Plant. While I don't know exactly what each element of the KUB plant does I've tried to highlight the areas that are used for water treatment against the "green."