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It is a strange experience walking down Haste Street from Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. Tall double-storey shipping containers, topped with gnarly chain-wire fencing and security cameras, loom above you, while a host of security guards si…
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This project site is in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, an area renowned for its architecture, landmarks, the epicenter of American theater (Broadway), as well as the Empire State Building. The site, more specifically, on the Western side…
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In downtown Los Angeles, numerous abandoned railroads and spurs lie hidden beneath layers of asphalt and concrete. As remnants of the city’s industrial past, they have contributed: to fragmented urban fabrics, social disconnection and ecologica…
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Our story starts in Detroit, Michigan, in the neighborhood of La Salle Gardens. Across the empty school garden of Thrinkell Elementary School, there lies a hidden gem filled with the lost history of Detroit—St. Agnes Church and school. Its presence i…
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How do we grapple with the history of place? and can we imagine a more hopeful future? We as landscape architects find ourselves in a unique position to grapple with the ever changing uses of land and the lasting effects of the anthropocene. This des…
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Akin to many vacant lots in Syracuse, New York, the parcels encompassing 1000 E Water St were previously dominated by public housing units (1980s-2010s). As described in the timeline below through Google imagery, these units were demolished shortly a…
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Currently, the site is situated in a corridor of lost sites along a roadside that often goes unused. It has been a construction staging area for years. The soil has been compacted and the site is riddled with rubble and weedy saplings. Although locat…
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Syracuse, New York is a part of a chain of cities, along with Buffalo and Rochester, collectively known as The Rust Belt. As was the fate of many manufacturing cities, Syracuse experienced massive losses of industry as companies sought labor elsewher…
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Our whole project changed when we first visited the site. Our analysis that we conducted remotely gave us an expectation of what we would find when we got there, and that expectation was challenged by what we saw. Despite the separation that the site…
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Atlanta, once renowned for its rich natural landscape and fertile agricultural grounds, now faces a significant challenge in addressing food disparity, limited access to fresh food, and insufficient agricultural education, particularly in its urban a…
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Athens, Georgia, boasts a vibrant and influential music scene that has earned it a reputation as one of the South’s most important cultural hubs. Known for its indie and alternative rock roots, Athens has given rise to iconic bands like R.E.M…
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Once recognized as the “Textile Capital of the World,” Greenville flourished in the early to mid-20th century, with mills like Poe Mill serving as economic cornerstones that provided jobs and fostered a distinct cultural identity. Establi…
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At City Line Park’s extended area in Brooklyn, we reimagined a forgotten greenspace, transforming it into a vibrant, living habitat that serves nature and urban life day and night. Through a palette of pollinator-friendly native plantings, we c…
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Mount Sterling is a place determined by its landscape, which is trying to hold onto its past. The city acts as a cultural art destination with a rich history and committed community-though its current infrastructure lacks the avenues to bring those e…
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The city of Mount Sterling, located in central Kentucky, sits directly between the mountainous and bluegrass regions of the state. The city is home to roughly 7,500 people and is known as the “gateway” between these two regions. One of th…
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Mt. Sterling is a small city in Kentucky with a rich history. A gateway to the bluegrass, this town was once a transportation hub, but has since lost is traction. The town is filled with people that care but the land is wasted. A sea of asphalt parki…
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“And those that labor – maybe you’ll let their workgrip them for another five hours, or seven before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness,” ( Reiner Maria Rilke (Translation Joanna Macy)) The project beg…
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Would you want to live under the looming shadow of a 40-story JAILSCRAPER? The residents of Chinatown, New York, say no. The city’s fixation on colossal jail towers threatens to erode the neighborhood’s culture, strip away its vibrant street life, an…
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The U.S. interstate highway system epitomizes systemic racial inequities. It is no coincidence that highways were deliberately routed through Asian, Black, and Brown communities in many major American cities, tore apart neighborhoods and left a deep…
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Sugar Hill’s thriving Black community managed to exist despite systemic efforts to prevent Black people from buying homes in much of Los Angeles. Because Black people were willing to pay more since there was far less property available to them…
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Consciously or subconsciously we define everything in the world with labels, so what defines the label “LOST”? Do “LOST” people make a site or is the site itself “LOST”? From the outside point of view, many people…
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Lincoln Park in Hollygrove has a rich history of jazz music being played there in the late 1800s till the early 1900s. Jazz star Buddy Bolden used to play at the park. The park was a community place where people would gather at the day’s end an…
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The Shore of light is a hidden gem of the Golden Gate recreation area, connecting the headlands to the golden gate straight – and Marin working waterfront to Lime Point lighthouse. The site lost under the bridge is becoming a place of resilienc…
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Mission Bay in San Francisco stands as one of the most gentrified areas in the United States. Historically, this region was an integral part of San Francisco Bay and the expansive Chaparral ecology, serving as a natural refuge for numerous waterfowl…
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Historically, the West Broad School has been a place where children’s autonomy is taken away. How can we revitalize its abandoned grounds in a way that opens the space up to the public and returns agency to the children who will play here…
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South Dallas has suffered from decades of disinvestment, largely due to redlining and policies that denied the community access to capital. The construction of major highways further isolated the area from downtown, deepening economic stagnation. As…
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The city of Yonkers at the present moment, like many former industrial cities across the US, is in the process of undergoing widespread gentrification. In this gentrification process is the redevelopment of many forgotten spaces into high-rise apartm…
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The civic center of downtown Brooklyn is located at the crossroads of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Just south of this cluster of courthouses, administrative buildings, and formal plazas lies Brooklyn Heights, a designated historic district kno…
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The site, as it stands, is an empty lot that rests between two parking lots. The site has been reused a myriad of times, from industrial materials storage/dumping to event parking to its current use – a space for unhoused individuals to commune…
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Neptune Road once was a residential street and the entrance to Frederick Law Olmsted’s Wood Island Park, a 47-acre waterfront park designed in the 19th Century and located in East Boston. When Logan Airport expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s…
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Thousands of students and faculty pass through McCormick Road, the central core of the University of Virginia (UVA), every day on their way to and from classes. Whether arriving on foot, bicycle, scooter or UTS bus, they move through one of the most…
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Our lost site lives in the Star Hill Neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia. The community received its name from a group of wealthy Black families (the Stars’) that called the small neighborhood home (O’Hare). In the past decade, Star Hill has fa…
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Located along the Mexico-United States border, “Las Colonias” emerged as areas where peri-urban subdivisions of substandard housings cluster. Occupied by poverty-stricken communities that are self-labeled as “the forgotten Americans”, these informal…
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Ridgewood Reservoir was built to supply Brooklyn, New York with fresh drinking water. Decommissioned in 1958, Ridgewood Reservoir is now 50 acres of naturalized area with overgrown vegetation, closed off to the public…
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The social experience within a cul-de-sac is deliberately individualistic. The Cul-De-Sac is meant to separate the haves from the have not’s. There is an inherent level of embedded competition within neighbors. Without the presence of a neutral socia…
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