In North America, the accepted norms of our automobile-reliant culture and its resultant infrastructure have proved detrimental to the evolution of our cities through an unbalanced favoring of sprawl and hard surfaces over sustainable density and an integrated landscape. As the capitol of Arkansas, Little Rock’s downtown lacks an identity reflective of its collective cultural context. Cities, in essence, are fields of organized complexity consisting of an interrelated collection of parts. This project is about these collections. It is about the aggregation of urban regeneration and landscape infrastructure throughout a decaying urban field.
Awards
Public Choice Award
Envision Little Rock Competition
studioMAIN and City of Little Rock
Toronto Society of Architects Scholarship
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
Status: School Project
Location: Little Rock, AR, US