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March 31 - May 26, 2003
Large parks—defined here as those encompassing 500 acres or more – acquire a complexity and force that allows them to participate in a dialogue with surrounding cities and their social and ecological processes. Some of the parks considered in this exhibition have been public parks for decades, others more than 100 years, and one – Fresh Kills – has yet to be built and even calls into question the status of 21st century parks. The student-curatorial curatorial team investigated the parks through five particular lenses: site history, the relationship of the park to its host city, the dialogue between making places within parks and the processes that transform them, public use, and ecology. Through asking a series of questions such as how parks operate, how ecological processes mark the parks, how parks have been made and remade, and how they becomes catalysts for change in their host cities, we have come to understand the emerging importance of the role of ecology in the definition of today’s large parks.This exhibition was curated by George Hargreaves, FASLA, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice with assistance from Glenn Allen, Julia Czerniak, Katherine Anderson, Gina Ford, Emma Schiffman, and Jason Siebenmorgan.