the herring run green network
DESCRIPTION
The project sponsored by Rails to Trails Conservancy, D.C, proposes conservation of the neglected stream through re-programming and recommending community ownership in valuing and sustaining the stream as well as the designed green network around it. The flyer was designed to educate, engage and thus mobilize the neighborhood citizens and groups in the stream conservations and reclamation efforts.TRANSCRIPT
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The Herring Run Design Studio LAAR550 Studio Team | Herring Run Design Group: Instructor: Professor Archana Sharma James Brown, Elizabeth Carroll, Aaron Jones, S.hmuel Erlanger, Maryam Sheykholmolouki Funded by Rails to Trails Conservancy. D.C. Ex-Gratis: Kelly Pack, Director of Trail Development, Rails to Trails Conservancy Washington D.C Ellis Brown, Director, Community and Economic Development, Morgan State University Paul Voos, Program Chair, Graduate Landscape Archi-tecture Program, Morgan State University
Herring run facts. Did you know? The Herring run stream flows through north-east Baltimore city in Maryland. It is a tribu-tary of the Back River running 11.1 miles long. The total length of the Herring Run main stem and tributaries is over 41 miles. The principal tributaries of Herring Run are the Western Branch, Chinquapin Run, Tiffany Run, Armistead Run, Biddison Run, Moores Run and Redhouse Run. The Herring run stream and its tributaries have a watershed spread over 31-square-mile with its headwaters in Towson, Maryland, The stream drains into the Black river which outfalls into the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States with a drainage basin of 64,299 square miles spreading across the Dis-trict of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. More than 150 rivers and streams drain into the bay includ-ing the Herring run stream via Black river. The word Chesepiooc is an Algonquian word referring to a village "at a big river." It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U.S., first applied as "Chesepiook" by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586. Credits: Design sketches: Studio Team Herring run facts compilation: Shekhomoulouki, M. Brochure design: Sharma, A., and Shekhomouloki, M.
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References for Herring run facts: George Stewart, Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States. New York: Random House, 1945, p.23 Pushpam Kumar, TEEB the economics of ecosystem an biodiversity, 2012 Leslie Kaufman, Chesapeake Bay, New York Times, Retrieved 2011-04-13 Scientist’s cliff’s community, Chesapeake Bay, http://cliffersdev.org/ Retrieved 2008- 05-08 BCHD Baltimore City Health Department, Neigh-borhood health, 2011, http://baltimorehealth.org/
Site - Context Analysis. Community CONVERSATIONS
Y/our design, Y/our ownership, Y/our accountability— are you ready!
Physical disconnect : A multi-accessible
green network to connect people at Mor-
gan Campus and neighborhood commu-
nity Herring run stream
Crime and Safety : A pleasant and accessible,
multipurpose green network to allow public
surveillance + good lighting powered by
Poor water quality : A storm-water treating
green network integrating technologies viz
rain gardens, bioswales and wetlands to clean
SW before it flows into Herring run
Issues : Y/our Sustainable design plan
Sustainable technologies integrated, GREEN NETWORK For the people, by the people, of the people