Emerald Necklace

: Infrastructural Landscape

Location: Chicago, IL

Year: 2011

Type: Design Competition

Collaboration: Malik Ajose and Ivan Silvestre

Status: Conceptual Design

"Emerald Necklace" proposed by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett in Plan of Chicago (1909)

(Map: Chicago History Museum)

The Emerald Necklace links parks and boulevards as a green network, while fountains and statues were designed to adorn boulevards, creating "continuous playgrounds." We re-envision parks and boulevards in Chicago that are substantially broken and underutilized, particularly in low-income communities of South and West Side of the city.

Boulevard can be reprogrammed as a shared space for parking, social and cultural programs, and bike station, etc., where stormwater runoff can be collected and retreated through bioswale and rain garden.

Concept collages showing interventions of parks and boulevards

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