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Abstract
Environmental concerns and worldwide population growth demonstrate the needfor positive integration of human cultural practices with other ecological processes,including animal life cycles. This thesis proposes that fostering a sense of regionalcommunity within citizens for local wildlife will aid in the paradigm shift necessary foreffective interspecies habitation in urbanized areas. Land and environmental art acts as achannel for cultural communication, often confronts localized problems which affectwildlife, and has been of interest to landscape architects for decades. With thedevelopment of eco-revelatory design practice, the procedural and ideologicalcontributions of these artists remain relevant to our profession. This thesis will examinesix case studies from within the outer periphery of Krausss 1979 Klein Group Diagram,using an evaluative framework to determine how well they provide for wildlife needs andhuman awareness of the animals, and then applies the information learned to a site inCharleston, SC.