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Creating A Resilient Design For The Hinsdale Island Greenway: Linking Research And Practice, Christopher Ramage Apr 2021

Creating A Resilient Design For The Hinsdale Island Greenway: Linking Research And Practice, Christopher Ramage

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

The Hinsdale Island Greenway proposes a community driven vision for the reuse of Hinsdale Island, the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge, and the Charles Dana Bridge as a resilient public landscape that balances recreation and conservation goals. Within the project context, three research questions are investigated. 1) How does resiliency theory inform the design of riverine landscapes? 2) How can designed experiments be applied within public landscapes? 3) How can a transect framework be applied to organize design interventions at a site scale? A literature review, interviews with experts, case studies, and lessons learned during the course of this project are …


Gateway As Greenway - Re-Envisioning Gateway National Recreation Area: An Inquiry Into Biophysical Processes And Cultural History To Interpret A National Park Of The Future, Beth Ann Fenstermacher May 2007

Gateway As Greenway - Re-Envisioning Gateway National Recreation Area: An Inquiry Into Biophysical Processes And Cultural History To Interpret A National Park Of The Future, Beth Ann Fenstermacher

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

On October 27, 1972, Gateway National Recreation Area (NRA), located in New York and New Jersey, was established as one of two national recreation areas intended to serve urban areas. Along with Golden Gate NRA in San Francisco, California, these were the first two national parks to be brought closer to large, urban populations. The creation of these urban parks was the result of a social objective: creating parks that were truly in reach of large populations of people (Rothman, 2004). Thirty-five years later, while Golden Gate NRA thrives as an active recreation area for the people of the San …