Allegheny County: Landscape Ecology and Green Infrastructure
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Originator:3Rivers 2nd Nature, Carnegie Mellon University
Publication_Date:2006
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Allegheny County: Landscape Ecology and Green Infrastructure
Online_Linkage: http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/index.htm
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Abstract: 
The 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project was directed by artists/researchers Tim Collins and Reiko Goto. The project addressed the meaning, form, and function of public space and nature in Allegheny County, PA, U.S.A. This is the region that encompasses the former steel industry capital of the United States, Pittsburgh PA, U.S.A. 3 Rivers 2nd Nature focused upon the three major rivers; the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Ohio Rivers, as well as the streams and subwatersheds. This five-year project revisited questions of nature and post-industrial public space, first addressed on the Nine Mile Run Greenway Project. The focus of the work is research to benefit the public realm, applied as strategic knowledge with accompanying outreach programs intended to enable creative public advocacy and change.

The 3 Rivers 2nd Nature conducted integrative analysis and instrumental planning based upon the rigorous field studies that began in the year 2000. The work effort focused upon partnerships to accomplish interdisciplinary analysis, spatial mapping, and concept design within and among specific communities. The work culminated with an ecological design plan and a water quality policy report that analyzed alternatives for ongoing water quality sampling. Finally, the project team has organized the "Monongahela Conferences" and the subsequent 2005 "Groundworks" exhibition (October 2005) to examine the artist's role in social and environmental change.
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The goal of the 3R2N project was to conduct an analysis of the green infrastructure that provides social, aesthetic, ecological, and economic benefit to the Three Rivers Region. The project team would argue that the most significant impact of the industrial era of modern culture is its impact on nature. Post industrial culture can be defined in terms of an emergent awareness of lost ecological integrity through legacy pollutants that affect, air, water, soil, food, the human body, and global climate. One of the key points of critical intervention is to address the local experience and conceptualization of nature; the aesthetic perception of nature and its valuation as a public realm benefit. The air, the soil and the water belongs to all of us. Objectives * Conduct a green infrastructure analysis. Current water quality, ecology, hydrology, habitat values, and public access were compared to historic information and databases. Baseline studies were established where possible. * Identify opportunities for ecological restoration. Targeted ecological-restoration extends and unifies disparate green infrastructure systems. * Understand the history and the basis for cultural restoration. Cultural restoration is an integrative change in the way a community thinks about infrastructure and ecosystems - the relationships between humans, land and water. * Conduct public dialogue about the potential for all of the above .
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mxd's include: 1.1 Hydrological Overview Streams, 1.2 Hydrological Overview, 1.3 Hydrological and Municipal Boundary, 1.4 Urban Context, 2.1 Population Density, 2.1.1 Population Density Blockgroup, 2.2 Median Income, 2.2.1 Median Income Blockgroup, 2.3 Vacant Housing Units, 2.3.1 Vacant Housing Units Blockgroup, 2.4 Rented Housing Units, 2.4.1 Rented Housing Units blockgroup, 2.5 Owned Housing Units, 2.5.1 Owned Housing Units Blockgroup, 2.6 Parks and Open Space, 2.7 Parks per Capita, 3.1 Woodland Interior forest, 3.2 Riparian Woodland Patches, 3.3 Riparian Woodland Contiguity, 3.4 Woodland Values, 4.1 Watershed Imperviousness, 4.2 Invertebrate Condition Scores, 4.3 IBI, 4.4 Ecology Rating, 5.1 Viewshed, 5.2 First Order River, 5.3 River Corridor Study Area, 5.4 River Corridor Zones, 6.1 Woodland Patches Touching RC, 6.2 Woodland Patch Group Method, 6.3 Woodland Patch Groups, 6.4 Woodland Internal Fragment, 6.5 Woodland Percent Fragment, 6.6 Woodland Percent Fragment, 6.7 Woodland Potetial Interior, 6.8 Woodlands Potential Interior, 6.9 Woodland Group 100, 6.10 Woodland Group 500, 6.11 Woodland Group Valley, 6.12 Woodland Group Rank, 6.13 Woodland Group Open Space, 7.1 River Edge Wetlands, 7.2 River Edge Continuity, 7.3 River Edge Preservation, 7.4 River Edge Restoration, 8.1 Potential Opportunity Areas, 8.2 Potential Opportunity Areas Locator, 8.3 Hays Streets, 8.4 Emerald Arc, 8.5 Toms Run, 8.6 Thorn Run, 8.7 Plum Creek, 8.8 Deer Creek, 8.9 Days Bulls, 8.10 Upper Allegheny, 9.1 County Zoning, 9.2 Erosion Hazard, 9.3 Hays Streets Zoning, 9.4 Emerald Arc Zoning, 9.5 Hays Streets Built, 9.6 Emerald Arc Built, 9.7 Hays Streets Built, 9.8 Emerald Arc Erosion
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Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme_Keyword:environment
Theme_Keyword:planningCadastre
Theme_Keyword:society
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Place_Keyword:Allegheny County
Place_Keyword:Pennsylvania
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Contact_Organization:3Rivers 2nd Nature, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact_Person:Kathryn Reed
Contact_Position:GIS Systems Supervisor
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Address_Type:mailing address
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621 County Office Building
Address: 
542 Forbes Avenue
City:Pittsburgh
State_or_Province:Pennsylvania
Postal_Code:16803
Country:United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone:412.350.5126
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:kreed@county.allegheny.pa.us
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Contact_Organization:Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)
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115 Land and Water building
City:University Park
State_or_Province:Pennsylvania
Postal_Code:16802
Country:United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone:(814) 865 - 8792
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:pasda@psu.edu
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Metadata_Date:20101217
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Contact_Organization:Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)
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115 Land and Water building
City:University Park
State_or_Province:Pennsylvania
Postal_Code:16802
Country:United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone:(814) 865 - 8792
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:pasda@psu.edu
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