April 2022 Ι Landscape Architecture Magazine Smoke stacks of deserted steel plants keep the skyline of Big Marsh Park in Chicago spare. an Wetlands dominate the soggy ground between Lake Michigan and Lake Calumet, Chicago’s other Great Lake, so endlessly dredged and filled that it’s become a hammer-headed series of slips and canals. This part of… Continue reading In the Tank
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The Story of the Great Lakes in 8 Maps
December 11, 2017 Ι CityLab Stretching across eight states and two Canadian provinces, the Great Lakes region contains the world’s largest freshwater system and is likely the greatest single surface aggregation of rare resources on the planet. If it was a standalone country, its economy would be the fourth largest in the world. Yet its natural… Continue reading The Story of the Great Lakes in 8 Maps