Title
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Fall 2016
Keywords
central park, landscape, manhattan, grid
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture | Landscape Architecture
Description/Abstract
In this thesis, I will contemplate the necessary process of weaving the large landscape into the urban fabric. As stated within Anita Berrizbeitia’s essay, Re-placing Process, in the book Large Parks, “Yet for all their susceptibility to the ebb and flow of urban circumstances, large parks remain fundamental to cities, not only because they take on infrastructural and ecological functions displaced from densely built centers but because they are distinct, memorable places. They absorb the identity of the city as much as they project one, becoming socially and culturally recognizable places that are unique and irreproducible. Those large public parks that we are continually drawn to as designers, ones that have captured the imagination of writers, artists, social historians, and philosophers, and that continue to be used intensely centuries after their making, have in common seemingly contradictory characteristics: they are flexible, adaptive, socially dynamic, emerging sites, and they are also visually powerful, unforgettable places. They are the product of deliberate decisions that leave them open-ended in terms of management, program, and use, and they result from equally conscious decisions that isolate, distill, and capture for the long term that which make them unique.” Landscape is essential in the urban environment. Without it, we will loss ourselves in the expansion of urbanism, and risk the permeant separation of the natural and man-made.
Recommended Citation
Wineinger, Garrett, "Decentral Park" (2016). Architecture Senior Theses. 379.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/379
Source
local input
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Additional Information
This thesis received Honorable Mention.
Thesis Advisors: Richard Rosa with Amber Bartosh and Elizabeth Kamell
Thesis Prep Advisors: Benjamin Farnsworth with Mark Linder