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From landfill to park: the experiment at Freshkills
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From landfill to park: the experiment at Freshkills
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Giovanni A.
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Rutgers University
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The Freshkills landscape has endured many different ecosystems for the last 100 years. From freshwater marshes, to landfill operations, to now park development. After over 50 years of garbage dumping for New York City, Fresh Kills was left with over 2,200 acres of waste by 2001. In 2006, after an international design competition James Corner’s Field Operations landscape architecture firm released the Freshkills Park draft master plan for the site to transform the former landfill into a park. This thesis investigates the culture change for Staten Islanders, and what now becomes a community asset in the 2020s. This thesis is a supplement to the Freshkills Park draft master plan for North Park and includes a proposed plan for an area near the Travis-Chelsea neighborhood of Staten Island. This post-industrial landscape provides an opportunity to create research plots to see what will happen to particular vegetation over time. This thesis includes a greenhouse bench study experiment to find out if locally sourced and brownfield adapted plant material will survive at Freshkills Park. The results of the bench study are then applied to a field study to develop a design proposal for Freshkills North Park. These research plots can help guide and influence the future plant palette at Freshkills Park, with the goals of creating a process that results in a more biodiverse ecosystem. The design proposal includes living laboratories at Freshkills Park with the intention to create positive interactions at the park for locals through citizen science while simultaneously investigating the site’s urban ecologies.
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Landscape Architecture
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Ecological design
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Freshkills Park (New York, N.Y.)
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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