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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Landscape Architecture

2015

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Adaptive Golf Course Redevelopment: Identity And Balance, Timothy Joseph Lysett May 2015

Adaptive Golf Course Redevelopment: Identity And Balance, Timothy Joseph Lysett

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Unknown to much of the general public, the golf industry is currently in a state of ongoing retraction. One of the many outcomes of this retraction is the closing of hundreds of golf courses across the country, leaving many residential communities that where designed around these open green spaces lacking an integral part of their identity. The Calusa Country Club Community of Kendall Florida, is one such place.

Like many closed golf courses throughout the United States, Calusa is currently caught in a state of limbo. As the centerpiece of a master-planned residential community developed in 1970, the golf course …