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Abstract
With significant development pressure in urban areas, abandoned post-industrial sites
across the United States become potential sites for future use and redevelopment. Three projects
in the United States and in France demonstrate the significant landscape design potential of these
sites as resilient urban spaces. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how small-scale postindustrial
sites along rivers in urban areas can be designed with resilient landscape design
principles. Comparative case study analysis was conducted across three small-scale postindustrial
project sites along rivers or creeks (Bethlehem SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; West Point Foundry Preserve in the Village of Cold Spring,
New York, USA; and Saint Ouen-Park of the Docks in Paris, France) in order to determine
resilient design approaches and solutions to typical post-industrial landscape sites. These
findings were then applied in the design of an abandoned post-industrial site in Athens, Georgia,
the Puritan-Wellington Mill.
across the United States become potential sites for future use and redevelopment. Three projects
in the United States and in France demonstrate the significant landscape design potential of these
sites as resilient urban spaces. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how small-scale postindustrial
sites along rivers in urban areas can be designed with resilient landscape design
principles. Comparative case study analysis was conducted across three small-scale postindustrial
project sites along rivers or creeks (Bethlehem SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; West Point Foundry Preserve in the Village of Cold Spring,
New York, USA; and Saint Ouen-Park of the Docks in Paris, France) in order to determine
resilient design approaches and solutions to typical post-industrial landscape sites. These
findings were then applied in the design of an abandoned post-industrial site in Athens, Georgia,
the Puritan-Wellington Mill.