Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)
Department
Landscape Architecture
First Advisor
Fatema Maswood
Second Advisor
Andrea Johnson
Abstract
Large corporations control intensive and extractive industrial land use practices through acts of dumping, capping, and neglect. The abandonment of industrial sites is increasing as well as the environmental consequences of such actions. How can impacted communities proactively engage in remediation processes while post-industrial sites sit in limbo?
With the former Foley Cellulose Plant in Perry, Florida (closed in 2023) as a case study, this thesis researches and speculates on potentials of phytoremediation experimentation and harvesting of plant fibers on contaminated soils. The site is a pulped landscape: land directly impacted by intensive, large corporation-led pulp production practices that is ripe for change. Through integrating local knowledge and expertise, this proposal advocates for a local framework that blends environmental stewardship with the remediation of post-industrial landscapes.
Recommended Citation
Abrams, Allison P., "Pulped Landscapes" (2025). Masters Theses. 1434.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1434
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