Changing Landscape

A series of concept boards, reflecting various options for the creation of a public space, are at the heart of the discourse between community members, the steering committee and city planners.

The boards presented are intended to promote a public dialogue on the form and function of stream side public space on the East End of Pittsburgh. Issues of ecological restoration, aesthetics and design are constrained and complicated by issues of infrastructure and utility. This ongoing dialogue, enabled through the city of Pittsburgh and funded by the Heinz Endowments has allowed the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry to develop a program which enables citizen choice.

3d Models by Jimmy Matthew

The slag filled valley and the remaining natural soil hills are an important link between Frick Park (upper Nine Mile Run) and the Monongahela River corridor. Once reconnected, these land areas promote the trail connection of diverse human communities and provide an important biological link (a source of diversity and aesthetic benefit for park users!) allowing a variety of wildlife; fish, reptiles aquatic mammals, and water-birds to flow to and through the expanded park area.

• Reclaim-Develop-Restore, The Changing Landscape Wall
  Graphic design and final content of the boards was developed by Suzy Meyer of Image Earth
• Re-Cartography: An Interactive Map
  Comparisons between Industrial and Post-Industrial conditions, remapped conceptually by Richard Pell, showing the changing landscape of the Nine Mile Run Greenway and Frick Watershed, with its history and context, as well as current conditions.
• Final Boards
  Workshop results combined with the final boards; these boards represent the options chosen at the charette, summer 1999.
• "Changing Our Point of View"
  Video by Bob Bingham, edited by Christina Hung, explores the Nine Mile Run Watershed in a video tour.
• Project Philosophy
  A discourse on the aims of the Nine Mile Run Greenway Project.