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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Environmental Design

2022

Turners Falls

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Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns Apr 2022

Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

This masters project will focus on the site of the Hillcrest and Sheffield Elementary School campus in the "The Hill" neighborhood of Turners Falls, MA. This project aims to create a vision of possibility for an underutilized neighborhood amenity. This project reviews social, demographic, physical data of the neighborhood in Turners Falls as well as research on play, nature play, outdoor experiential learning, and the local ecology of Montague Wildlife Management area. To execute this goal, the study aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • Revitalize an underutilized space into a neighborhood asset;
  • Improve elementary school campus reinforcing a positive learning …