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    Destination Dam Removal: designing historical narratives into post-industrial landscapes
    (2021-06-13) Corl, Carolyn
    In recent decades, dam removals on American rivers have accelerated due to environmental concerns for stream ecology coinciding with the obsolescence of dam infrastructure built in the early 20th century. In some cases, parts of a dam’s structure are left behind to minimize riverbank disturbance or to appease community members who oppose dam removal for its cultural significance. Like other post-industrial landscapes, the traces and ruins associated with dam infrastructure tell a story of the site before, during and after the infrastructure severely altered the landscape. At dam removal sites specifically, acknowledging this narrative of landscape change and recovery is a unique design opportunity that cannot be addressed through restoration or preservation alone. But through literature review and case study analyses, this project builds a design framework for engaging with the traces left behind by dam removal. By examining how landscape architects have previously worked with other types of post-industrial landscape remnants to elicit a site’s narrative through design, a decision-making procedure for proposing design interventions for historic remnants and how to make them compatible with an overall design concept was developed. The design intervention framework is then exemplified through a proposed site design at the former Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon.