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I95 Intersection in Providence
Color Litho Printmaking
22 x 17"
2021
The I-95 corridor in Providence has been selected as a site for developing and testing innovative detailed design ideas addressing how to resolve the problem of a highway dividing neighborhoods. In the future, I hope historically disruptive urban traffic infrastructure will be systematically changed through landscape design, which ultimately realizes the vision of benefiting community members and enhancing their lives.
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Segregation History Timeline
From the first indigenous peoples on the American continent, to the later colonists, the slave trade, and the attraction of many immigrants to industrialization, these are all reasons why America is a very diverse country. But injustice between different races has always persisted. Even with the civil rights movement and other anti-inequity campaigns where the policies of inequality were abolished, injustices against people of color are still everywhere in life.
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Design Guidelines
The guidelines for aging transportation lines transformed projects are developed. It includes opening up the segregation brought about by structure, valuing to adjacent space and finding suitable programs.
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Programming Toolkits
A set of programming toolkits with 18 programs is a kit of landscape architecture programs design ideas that can be deployed incrementally to progress transportation line transformed projects. It is an idea generator. The colors of red, blue, yellow and green are used to represent their social, cultural, economic and health values to help designers evaluate and select suitable programs for the site.
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Site Design Principles | Parti
The divided communities will meet and even merge again on this site and enjoy the programs which are based on their needs.
ENDNOTES
- “El-Space Toolkit.” Design Trust for Public Space. Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.designtrust.org/publications/el-space-toolkit/.
- Elyjana, Roach. Think Big Act Small. 2017
