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Author: HELGASON, Loren
Date: 2001
Pages: ix, 99 leaves
Institution: Master of Landscape Architecture Program, Kansas State Univ.
Call Number: LD 2668.T4 LARC 2001 H45 c.2
Advisors: Clement*, Barnes, Dodd

ABSTRACT:The purpose of this research is to complete a case study analysis of the urban space in Chattanooga, Tennessee known as Ross's Landing. The compilation of the information in this case study and findings that follow are intended to provide students, educators, researchers, and practitioners of landscape architecture and allied professions the opportunity (a) to evaluate precedent built works and (b) to advance the level of scholarship in landscape architecture. The case study methodology for landscape architecture developed by Mark Francis, FASLA, provides the framework for analyzing this site scale project.

Ross's Landing was determined to be worthy of a case study because of: (a) the site's historic significance in the urban environment of Chattanooga, (b) its approach to the redesign of an urban space incorporating a eccentric narrative component that presents the culture and history of the people of Chattanooga, (c) its reported success for its role in the redevelopment of the Chattanooga community, and (d) no published critical analysis of the project has been completed since its completion in 1992. The case study of Ross's Landing was applied in such a manner as to provide an understanding of the physical design of its spatial environment as well as the issues surrounding its development and ongoing use.

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