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Document Summary
Portland, oregon: halpern, rsvp: book written to explain design process of the fountain, auditorium forecourt fountain. Learned from love-joy fountain about water effects that could be made: aesthetics, safety, usability, depression of amphitheater to be accompanied by plants. Takes place in downtown san francisco, designs make it look like you"re in the sierra: disabled and non disabled interacted together. La considered starting to consult disabled before they designed a new project. Environment: atchafalaya swamp: overhanging trees, snakes are very common remnants of the past seen though old trees. Rowan oak: william faulkner, considered most important writer of the 20th century. Landscapes tell different stories: photography 1840"s/50"s, a lot of photographs from this time were portraits due to the fact that they were so expensive. Pre-settlement landscape: maps and documents, water ways and ecology. Laid between thin loess soil and upper coastal plain soil: loess: very fine windblown soil, coastal: tells that at one point the land was under water.
