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