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Proposal for the Steelyard Commons Segment Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail Extension Cleveland, Ohio Frances Whitehead, Lead Artist Lisa Norton , Art and Economics Consultant 2005-2006.

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  1. Proposal for the Steelyard Commons SegmentOhio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail ExtensionCleveland, Ohio Frances Whitehead,Lead ArtistLisa Norton, Art and Economics Consultant2005-2006

  2. Proposal for the Steelyard Commons SegmentOhio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail ExtensionCleveland, 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.

  3. Location of Steelyard Commons site

  4. 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.

  5. Thematically • Conceptually • Physically

  6. 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.

  7. Premise: • Frame the “chute” by developing both ends. • Local Innovation theme at south end corresponds to Steel Heritage theme at north end.

  8. Mittal Steel Air Cooled Blast Furnace Slag View at south end of Steelyard Commons

  9. La Farge’s Alpena MI Cement Plant ReprocessesCleveland Works’ slag Slag Cement Sales 1996-2005 Essroc - Middlebranch, Ohio Grinds GGBFS 20G tons 1998 / 100G tons 2004

  10. Cuyahoga Cuyahoga River RAPRiver 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

  11. The Urban Wild

  12. The Natural Flats - Cleveland’s local Urban Wilds The flats of the Cuyahoga River Valley are populated with slag tolerant, first succession species

  13. Trailside test plots to study propagation of slag tolerant species Tech Aesthetic - Cultivating Biodiversity

  14. Maps, Graphs, Data, Code Explain systems and economies Relay Corporate Responsibility Connect Virtual and Physical Public Art Opportunities Mega GraphicsInformation Interpretation and Amenity Thematics

  15. An example of a CIVIC EXCHANGE Kiosk Including place-making, and digital exchange potentials

  16. biosphere semiosphere technosphere Sustainability

  17. Culture:The fourth pillar of sustainability Cultural Vitality Well-being, Creativity Diversity & Innovation Environmental Responsibility Ecological Balance Sustainability Social Equity Cohesion, Justice, Engagement Economic Health Material Prosperity Culture = Values Sustain What? Creative City

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