Woven Suburbia Project: Retrofitting Suburban Neighborhoods with Ecological, Social, and Agricultural Corridors
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Date
2016-06
Authors
Meyers, Shelby
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University of Oregon
Abstract
This thesis presents the landscape architecture design, Woven Suburbia Project.
The Woven Suburbia Project implements ecological, social, and agricultural vegetation
corridors into existing suburban neighborhoods. Corridors are composed of retrofitted
individual residents' front yards and street edges, and are designed through the
collaboration of a landscape architect and the suburban residents. Woven Suburbia
Project responds to the rapid building methods of Post-World War II suburban
development by implementing design elements that support community, local
production, and environmental restoration. The design also takes inspiration from three
contemporary design movements that work to bring ecological landscape systems into
existing urban and suburban development. Ten steps to create a suburban corridor are
outlined for a landscape architect to follow, so that this framework can be replicated for
suburbs across the country. The redesign of La Costa Knolls, in San Diego, California
will demonstrate how to execute the ten steps of the Woven Suburbia Project.
Description
38 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2016.
Keywords
Landscape architecture, Design, Agriculture, Ecology, Social design, Suburbs, Southern California