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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Parkways"”.
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The Future of Parkways in the Landscape
… there has been an evolution in parkway usage. Parkways have outlived their recreational function and now must also serve as routes to recreational facilities. Since the elemental use of parkways has drastically changed, questions of how and why beg to be answered. How has parkway design and …
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Mapping and mitigating soil total lead contamination in Chicago, Illinois
… Chicago soils obtained by grid sampling (n=995) parkways and residential properties (n=156). Due to anthropogenic modification of soils, total Pb concentrations may also correlate with other soil properties. In parkways, the mean concentration of Olsen P was 15.1 mg kg-1, while the soil pH mean …
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Retrofitting the Tennessee Valley Authority
… economic development. There were planned towns, parkways, jobs, and cheap energy - a regional utopia. Eighty years later, what remains of that skeleton is a static system of dams and their reservoirs, and an aging power grid more reliant on heavily polluting fossil fuels than hydroelectric power. …
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Protecting Scenic Views: Seventy Years of Managing and Enforcing Scenic Easements along the Blue Ridge Parkway
… The scenic easements acquired for the Blue Ridge Parkways represent the first wide spread use of conservation easements in the country. The Parkway's early architects had few examples of easement programs to assist them in acquiring and managing these early forms of conservation easement nor did …
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The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston's Emerald Necklace
… Necklace, a 1,100-acre series of parks and parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903). Originally built to meet a particular set of aesthetic landscape tastes, over time this park system changed to meet the recreational needs of visitors. Throughout, the Emerald Necklace has …
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Adams Morgan Parkway: Envisioning a Network of Green Streets
The footprint of urban streets have become conflict zones of interests; ranging from efficient automobile infrastructure, building restriction lines, economical interests, shy efforts to introduce nature, services, etc. How can we, as urban designers, retrieve a portion of this footprint to nature …