1. Land, Water, People
New Parks in Practice
October 2010
Lance M. Neckar
Professor, Landscape Architecture
College of Design
CTS Faculty Scholar
University of Minnesota
Connectivity Place Sustainability Economy
2. Land, Water, People
New Parks in Practice
H. W. S. Cleveland, Park System of Minneapolis, 1883
H. W. S. Cleveland, The Aesthetic Development of the United Cities, 1888
Connectivity Place Sustainability Economy
3. Ecological Design
research:
2 species
sedimentation and its impact on species, ecologies
centrarchids: largemouth bass, crappies, bluegills
‘Sedimentation has been identified as
one of the major causes of habitat
degradation of backwater areas of the
upper Mississippi River. Sedimentation
(deposition of river carried soil and
sand) decreases water depth which
encourages nuisance growths of aquatic
vegetation which may result in
stagnation and oxygen depletion.’
http://www.iowadnr.com/fish/programs/research/mississ/mrlmb.h
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wild celery: canvasbacks
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4. Indicators and Metrics of Impact/Footprint
Systems + Scale + Complexity of Variables = Footprint and Flows
Economy – location efficiency, regional ratios of improvement
Water – stormwater >drinking water, impaired surface waters
Carbon – energy and emissions; health
Everywhere these problems
are also opportunities of the project that has regional and systemic reach:
What does Green Mean?
Sustainable Landscapes in Theory and Practice
Site Focus in Minneapolis and the Metro:
Parks and Park Systems
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5. Cases
Emscher Park, Duisburg-Nord, GER
Latz + Partner
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gustafson Partners
Menomonee River Park, Milwaukee, WI
Wenk Associates
Crissy Field, San Francisco, CA
Hargreaves Associates
Willamette River Connections, Portland, OR
Peter Walker Partners
Land, Water, People
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Duisburg Nord, Emscher Park
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7. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partners
Land, Water, People
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8. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partners
Land, Water, People
New Parks in Practice
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Duisburg Nord, 200 hectares = 494 acre, part of Emscher Park
Integrated Regional Development; 70 km of connective trails
International Bauaustellung (IBA) founded as an umbrella organization to deal
with brownfields in the region of the Ruhr Valley. 120 projects
IBA has embraced the idea that building and site design are critical
components of an environmental, social, and economic regeneration strategy.
IBA describes this process as "Architecture Organizing Urban Planning".
In 1988-80, the North Rhine Westphalia state government allocated DM 35
million for IBA. Landscape Park in Duisburg-Nord: all expenditures were
publicly funded
Financing from existing state and national government structural development
programs and aid from the European Union. By the summer of 1993, funds
spent on 134 projects totaled DM 2.5 billion, with some DM 1.7 billion coming
from public sources.
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http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/partners/emscher.html
10. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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11. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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12. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partners
Land, Water, People
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13. stormwater case studies
Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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14. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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15. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partners
Land, Water, People
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16. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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17. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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18. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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19. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
New Parks in Practice: Connectivity, Place, Sustainability, Economy
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20. Emscher Park, Duisburg Nord
Latz + Partner
Land, Water, People
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21. Emscher Park, Riverfront Development
Land, Water, People
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KFPoYPdBx4&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/partners/westergas.html
Westergasfbriek 50 hectares (124 acres)
Process
The project was developed and coordinated by a district council of the city. Friends of
Westerpark selected representatives from more than 500-600 citizens to join members of
the district council and project team in forming a new "Park Workgroup" that would
examine options. The district council recruited Evert Verhagen, the public works director,
to coordinate community activities and temporary uses of the buildings. Visited Duisburg
Nord. Citizens filled out questionnaires to develop program : classical music to nightclub
parties to art exhibitions; vote for their favorite park design as part of a formal
competition. Although the citizen vote on the five designs was split, the competition jury
and project team eventually recommended the design by architect Kathryn Gustafson,
1997.
Heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and benzene leached into the soil. The
cleanup plan is a two-phase process: (1) excavating soil where park visitors may directly
contact the ground, and (2) building a dam to seal off the contamination "hot spots" while
conducting groundwater monitoring. Interim uses of the park have been allowed because
all of the heavily-contaminated soil is currently under asphalt.
32. Menomonee River Valley
Wenk Associates
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Menomonee River Valley Redevelopment and Community Park
Landscape Performance Benefits
Public access to the Menomonee River and over 60 acres of park/open space in a area that
had been off-limits to the public for 50+ years.
Added 3 pedestrian/bicycle bridges and 7 miles of regional bike and pedestrian trails, linking
greater Milwaukee and neighborhoods to the park, river, and valley.
Increased developer yield (usable land) by 10-12% over conventional development by
clustering development sites and consolidating stormwater management.
Increased development site property values by 1,400% between 2002 and 2009.
Added over $1 million in annual City property tax revenues.
Treats water quality and manages 100-year flood volumes for 100+ acre basin.
Eliminates need for irrigation by using drought-tolerant native plants.
Triggered the use of the Menomonee River Valley as an outdoor science laboratory, which
receives 10,000 student visits annually
http://lafoundation.org/research/landscape-performance-series/case-studies/case-study/135/
34. Crissy Field, San Francisco
Hargreaves Associates
Land, Water, People
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35. Crissy Field, San Francisco
Hargreaves Associates
Land, Water, People
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36. Crissy Field, San Francisco
Hargreaves Associates
Land, Water, People
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37. Crissy Field, San Francisco
Hargreaves Associates
Land, Water, People
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38. Portland Connections to the Willamette
Jamieson Square, Peter Walker Partners
Tanner Springs Park, Atelier Dreiseitl
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39. Portland Connections to the Willamette, Jamieson Square
Peter Walker Partners
Land, Water, People
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40. Portland Connections to the Willamette
Peter Walker Partnets
Land, Water, People
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41. Portland Connections to the Willamette
Peter Walker Partnets
Land, Water, People
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42. Tanner Springs Park
Atelier Dreiseitl
Land, Water, People
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Notas do Editor
H. W. S. Cleveland’s 1883 plan for the Minneapolis Park System shaped the city we have today…. Not a very splashy graphic; but notice that this copy is from the engineering library.
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Cleveland envisioned a democratic city in which the parks would provide everyday access to the city’s principal water bodies, which would be connected by parkways. The park system would protect these waters by public management.
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In 1888 he revised this plan to include Minnehaha Creek. At the juncture of the Creek and the Mississippi he envisioned a large park that would be a state park and the central park of the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The structure of the Minnehaha Creek watershed and the creeks’ connectivity between Lake Minnetonka and the Mississippi River guided this thinking. His plan is a map, of course, but it is special kind of map that proposes an ecological footprint of the city, based in an intelligent infrastructure about water and the watershed. organic, connective and systemic….
Here’s another Google science combined with Calvin Fremling science design problem. What if we were to look at a critical impact on the river such as sedimentation. Two –really 3 other ---species are affected by this impact, which comes from outside the main stem of the river, from the watershed where humans have some measure of control.
>Centrarchids, apparently the scientific name for crappies, bluegills and largemouth bass, populate the backwaters of the river need oxygen. Oxygen in water is depleted by sediment loads, the effect of which is often exacerbated by increases in nitrates and phosphates.
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These, in turn, stimulate algae growth, but not necessarily the growth of plants needed by other animals such as the wild celery needed by canvasback ducks.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.
We will need new scientific insights, new organic processes. Janine Benyus’s breakthrough research on biomimicry, proposes the cloning of the processes and structures of nature in design and materials. > This idea holds the promise of science to help us make the map of sustainability across scales and all the design fields. > It may become the most important—and accessible—concept available as we reconceive how we will build here.