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Abstract
This thesis explores a future brownfield park integrative design which involves interpreting post-industrial history, making a showcase of a polluted area and its remediation process, and encouraging community activities. The question being researched is: how can landscape architects better balance an interpretation of industrial legacies, including the process of remediation and its toxicity, and a broad set of community goals for a future brownfield park? A post-industrial brownfield, Zonolite Park in Atlanta, has been selected as the model for research to explore necessary design strategies, and to propose a design site from a framework and the lessons learned from successful case studies. Descriptive strategies, interpretive strategies, evaluation, and proposed design will be used to understand, adopt, and apply the industrial heritage interpretation and community-oriented programs to the real park, Zonolite Park.