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Proposal for the Steelyard Commons Segment Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail Extension Cleveland, Ohio
Frances Whitehead, Lead ArtistLisa Norton, Art and Economics Consultant
2005-2006
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Proposal for the Steelyard Commons Segment Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail Extension Cleveland, Ohio
Background information:
The Trail will be constructed in six segments beginning at the south end.
The Steelyard Commons segment, segment #2 in the sequence, is being built by a private developer as part of a shopping center with steel heritage theme.
This segment lies directly west of the Cleveland Works, Mittal Steel plant and passes by a prominent slag pile and other industrial elements related to the mill.
The soil is largely slag fill from decades of steel production on this site. Hard, non-retentive and highly alkaline, the “soil” is hostile to most plant material except some hardy wild species rarely cultivated.
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Location of Steelyard Commons site
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Ideas
• Understand and make visible the (g)local. • Identify and make visible other invisible economies.• Find new uses for local materials and by-products.• Consume what is produced at hand. • In so doing, use the first segment of the trail to generate materials that you
use to make the trail itself.• Build citizen and organizational capacity for new methodologies.• Build the machine… that makes the Towpath machine… that will make a
sustainable future.
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• Thematically
• Conceptually
• Physically
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Observations:
• The Towpath is a machine that is making the future of Cleveland. A catalytic project.
• The “chute” appears straight … but is actually a superorg of cycles of
(g)local production + consumption.
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Premise:
• Frame the “chute” by developing both ends.
• Local Innovation theme at south end corresponds to Steel Heritage theme at north end.
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Mittal Steel Air Cooled Blast Furnace Slag View at south end of Steelyard Commons
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La Farge’s Alpena MI Cement Plant Reprocesses Cleveland Works’ slag
Essroc - Middlebranch, Ohio Grinds GGBFS 20G tons 1998 / 100G tons 2004
Slag Cement Sales 1996-2005
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Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga River RAP River Sediment Forebay• Captures sediment early• Makes it available for topsoil production• Public Art Opportunities
Metroparks “zoo poo” + Local restaurant waste Amend river sediment for TP Trail soil production
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The Urban Wild
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The Natural Flats - Cleveland’s local Urban Wilds
The flats of the Cuyahoga River Valley are populated with
slag tolerant, first succession species
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Trailside test plots to study propagation of slag tolerant species
Tech Aesthetic - Cultivating Biodiversity
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Mega GraphicsInformation Interpretation and Amenity Thematics
• Maps, Graphs, Data, Code • Explain systems and economies • Relay Corporate Responsibility • Connect Virtual and Physical• Public Art Opportunities
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QuickTimeª and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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An example of a CIVIC EXCHANGE Kiosk
Including place-making, and digital exchange potentials
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biosphere
semiosphere technosphere
Sustainability
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Culture: The fourth pillar of sustainability
Cultural Vitality
Well-being, Creativity Diversity & Innovation
Economic Health
Material Prosperity
Environmental Responsibility
Ecological Balance
Social Equity
Cohesion, Justice, Engagement
Sustainability
Culture = Values Sustain What? Creative City