Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources
Garrett, Michael J.
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Description
Title
Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources
Author(s)
Garrett, Michael J.
Issue Date
2011-08-26T15:24:15Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Fulton, Gale
Department of Study
Landscape Architecture
Discipline
Landscape Architecture
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.L.A.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
landscape architecture
Lake Calumet
Chicago
Illinois
Park
design
remediation
Abstract
This design thesis is an inquiry of the highly industrialized urban landscape of the Lake Calumet Complex on the South Side of the City of Chicago. It examines geologic and anthropogenic strata within this region as waste used for staging various social, industrial, and ecological systems. Today, these social, industrial, and ecological systems are not responsive to each other and certainly do not possess resilient attributes that would allow them to interact within the landscape in perpetuity. The resulting design strategy seeks to re-think the treatment of waste in the landscape into a new framework for future park design. This park will serve as grounds to interweave these complex systems in order to rehabilitate ecosystem functions and improve water quality. Additionally the park hybridizes many social and ecological functions to improve community recreational opportunities and gain public acceptance and appeal.
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