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As gentrification in this neighborhood has begun, residents need resiliency to gentrification and a way to slow down this process. If residents’ current needs are taken into consideration, keeping their culture and identity, offering job opportunities for local Mexican artists, and providing affordable houses for residents, resilient design proposals of adaptive re-use on a small, surgical scale, might now work. This thesis explores programmatic precedents and site analysis to inform urban landscape design. It provides a landscape architectural approach to help stimulate creative industry in this neighborhood, encourage local residents to participate in creative activities, and revitalize this changing neighborhood. 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