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Johnson, Lauren

The great plains region is one of the most extensively altered ecosystems on earth, with less than 1% of its 2 million acres not being used for agricultural development. Landscapes have been divided, sold, machined, and squeezed of resources over the last century and a half. These actions constructed new landscapes, hostile and void of native flora and fauna, with the ruins of failed ventures telling a stunted story of the landscape. People are left unfamiliar and incurious about the natural prairie landscape. This project proposes an intervention within a 1.6km square plot of abandoned agricultural land, including the ruins of a ghost town, to invite the occasional visitor to experience and imagine the stories of the site, beyond what we see on the surface. The site, as well as others like it, will not return to what it looked like before human disturbance, the landscape moving forward reflects the life cycle of the natural landscape and past interventions, with lessons to be learnt.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442119

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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