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Emergent Landscape: Urban Shadow Space, Illuminated, Hannah L. Hefner
Emergent Landscape: Urban Shadow Space, Illuminated, Hannah L. Hefner
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
This study defines a new approach to the transformation of unmaintained land within cities, or urban shadow space. Although urban shadow space can offer a place of free expression for the community and spontaneous vegetative growth within a city, it is often dismissed as blighted land by public authority. This study maximizes existing opportunities of these spaces, illuminating a realm of the city that is currently dark to the public eye. A proposed set of guidelines is utilized in the creation of three alternative designs that illustrate the emergent landscape, a sensitively designed, evolving landscape that encourages user interaction with …