Greta Mundt
University of Minnesota Master of Landscape Architecture
Forest Futures: Adaptive Silviculture Research at Lock and Dam 14
Lock and Dam Site Analysis: Regional River Mappings
Itasca Imagined Pasts and Speculative Futures: Exploring Gender, Rules, and Pranks at Itasca Biological Station
Gateway Clearing at the Esker Trail A Silvicultural Prescription and Guide
Channel Park
A Managed Retreat Resiliency Plan
Greenway Urban Orchard A Community Growing and Gathering Space
A Queer History of Loring Park Zine Storytelling Project
Restoration in Practice
Installation Projects with Landbridge Ecological
Technical Drawings Planting Enlargement
Growing Up Rondo
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A Highway Removal Project Focused on Childhood Autonomy 17-18
Forest Futures Adaptive Silviculture Research at Lock and Dam 14
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This project began with writing policy focused on designating suitable land throughout the lock and dam system as adaptive silviculture research areas.
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Building on the policy, this project identified three areas within the landscapes surrounding Lock and Dam #14 due to their unique conditions primed for studying forest ecologies. Silvicultural research questions and hypotheses guided the design of research plots. Art installations were paired with each area to explain silvicultural processes and the passage of time.
Transition research plots focused on Smith’s Island. Research plots were established in the gaps of the canopy to test how trees with higher flood resiliency may establish on the island.
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Endure plots used existing floodplain forest to track changes in the forest over time.
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Gold banding identified the trees in each plot and an app creates opportunities for visitors to track changes in the forest.
Migrate plots took advantage of a low-depth area of the river to promote sediment buildup with the goal of testing how sediment and plants accrue together. This research is important for potential dam-less futures of the river, as dam removal will result in large amount of bare sediment along the riverbanks.
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Landscape elements like the boardwalk and stone bands tracing the receding water line were designed to showcase change over time in this dynamic environment.
LAND USE ELEVATION
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HOW THE DRIFTLESS TYPOLOGY IMPACTS LAND USE
THIS AREA OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI REGION RESTS WITHIN THE DRIFTLESS AREA--CREATING A UNIQUE SET OF TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS WHICH ARE MANIFESTED BY LAND USE IN THE LANDSCAPE. THE WHITE LINE IN THIS MAP REPRESENTS A SINGLULAR CONTOUR LINE--WHERE THERE IS A LAND USE TRANSITION FROM FOREST, SHOWN IN GREEN, TO AGRICULTURE. SHOWN IN SHADES OF PINK.
FARMS AND FLOWS COMPARING POPULATION SHIFTS BETWEEN COUNTIES TO AGRICULTURAL AREAS
THIS MAP SHOWS MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE BETWEEN COUNTIES BETWEEN 2016 AND 2020 COMPARED WITH AGRICULTURAL LANDS. EACH LINE REPRESENTS 10 PEOPLE. COUNTIES IN GRAY EXPERIENCED A NET LOSS, WHILE CUNTIES IN WHITE EXPERIENCED A NET GAIN.
Lock and Dam Site Analysis
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Regional River Mappings Upper Misissippi River LEGEND Agricultural land
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This project explored the Mississippi River at a regional scale--examining land development and migration patterns at the confluence of the
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Mapping topographic impacts on land use. Areas in pink are agricultural while areas in green are forested--typically these areas are divided by a single contour line.
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Imagined histories
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Imagined Histories and Speculative Futures
Exploring gender, rules, and pranks at Itasca Biological and Research Station University of Minnesota Itasca Biological and Research Station This project started with a deep dive into Itasca history through archival records. In these records was the social history of gender and pranks on the station--explored through these drawings.
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Different measures of tree size and health include the diameter of the tree at 4.5 feet (DBH), the ratio of total tree height that supports live crown foliage (LCR), height, and tree age through coring.
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Gateway Clearing
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8+ 5+ 3+ Sampling a site is important for creating silvicultural prescriptions to understand baseline conditions - helping compare different areas accurately.
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Gateway Clearing at the Esker Trail A silvicultural prescription and guide Cloquet Forestry Field Station, Cloquet MN In Collaboration with Nicole DelPizzo, Chris Leberecht, and Theo Keenan A silvicultural prescription was designed to reduce fire prone balsam trees to create a navigable understory and further the goal of running controlled burns on the esker. Proposed landscape interventions accompanied the prescription to help users visualize the silvicultural processes and techniques at play. This guide both explored the designs and worked to explain the art and science of silviculture.
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Channel Park A managed retreat resiliency plan
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Charlestown Autoport, Boston, MA
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13 1. Harborwalk Continuation CHANNEL PARK 2. Resilient and Condensed Autoport 3. Flood-able Tidal Plaza 4. Boat builders 5. Beach 6. Salt Marsh Restoration
7. Flood-able park and nature play 8. Critical Habitat: Tidal Terraces 9. Education Center 10. Community Recreation Spaces 11. Mixed Income Housing 12. Protective Habitat Berm 13. BHA Proposed Housing
The intent of this project is to increase resilience of Charlestown’s northeast end through a managed retreat approach on the land most vulnerable to sea level rise. The managed retreat effort will create a restored salt marsh park on the Autoport using methods inspired by Boston’s ecological and geologic past. Housing and co-industrial redevelopment will be sited on more resilient ground and protected from or adapted to future flooding events. In the process, gathering and recreational spaces will be created for the public, reconnecting the Charlestown neighborhood to the waterfront and coastal ecology it has long been without.
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In Collaboration with Chris Leberecht
This project takes a radical managed retreat approach to sea level rise in Boston. The managed retreat effort will create a restored salt marsh park on the Autoport using methods inspired by Boston’s ecological and geologic past. Housing and co-industrial redevelopment will be sited on more resilient ground and protected from or adapted to future flooding events. In the process, gathering and recreational spaces will be created for the public, reconnecting the Charlestown neighborhood to the waterfront and coastal ecology it has long been without.
Model Process
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March Bloom Time Fruit Time Program
Tutorial: Pruning fruit trees
April
May
Mesabi Sour Cherry Black Ice Evans Sour Cherry Plum Golden Spice Pear La crescent Honeycrisp Apple Plum Frostbite Apple Chestnut Apple Summer Crisp Pear
Festival of Blooms: Daylong celebration of spring including live music and community public art creation
Tutorial: Planting for pollinators and their impacts on productive landscapes
June
July Mesabi Sour Cherry
Evans Sour Cherry Black Ice Plum La crescent Plum
Cherry Jubilee: Tutorial: Midsommer Canning, preserving, celebration and and reducing food kickoff to the harvest waste season
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Summer Crisp Pear Golden Spice Pear
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Frostbite Apple
Honeycrisp Apple Chestnut Apple
Tutorial: Fall Fest: Apple and Pear Community festival Cider Pressing with apple picking and baking and live music
Greenway Urban Orchard A community growing and gathering space Bracket Park, Minneapolis, MN This project addressed the changing programmatic needs of Brackett Park and the lack of variation within the parks in the surrounding neighborhood. By dramatically reforesting the north side of the park, and creating a pleached orchard, an aspen grove and clearing, the character of the park becomes distinctly unique. Program in the space is dependent on seasonality within the orchard, and structured gatherings are built around the growing schedule of the different trees.
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THE LORING PARk GAYBORHOOD Early queer public life in Minneapolis had been concentrated in the Gateway District in downtown. Following the Urban Renewal movement of the late 1950's and the subsequent shuttering of the Gateway District, queer public life and queer people scattered to different neighborhoods of the Twin Cities, including the Grand Avenue area of Saint Paul, and Powderhorn and Loring Park in Minneapolis. Queer life became prominent in the Loring Park neighborhood in the 1960's and peaked in the 1980's and 90's. Dennis E. Miller, a former resident of Loring Park, discusses the factors that influenced the queerness of the neighborhood in an oral history with the University of Minnesota, citing the low rents of the neighborhood, proximity to downtown, and closeness to Loring Park as driving factors of the significant queer population of the area. The Loring Park neighborhood became a hub of queer business and community space around this time. Businesses like Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, The 19 Bar, Ruby's Cafe, and others. Of these businesses, many have closed since the peak of the queer population of the area.
QUEER LORING PARK RUBY'S CAFE: "THE PLACE FOR LESBIANS TO G O ON SUNDAY TO S E E WH A T HAPPENED ON SATURDAY" --MARY B A HN E M A N ,
Loring Park became a gathering space for members of the queer community, and in particular gay men, during the height of the Loring Park gayborhood. Loring Park became a popular space for cruising, particularly since the layout of the park made car cruising possible--a necessity in Minnesota winters. Because of the known connection to queer community, Loring Park also became a dangerous place for queer people during the rise of "Gay Bashings" in Minneapolis. It became a space both associated with queer community and queer trauma, and queer communities responded to the tensions and dangers of the space. Attempts to criminalize cruising during the era also threatened the safety of queer users of the park. Jean Tretter speaks of the danger of the park, saying: " There were gay gangs that came together to patrol the parks to keep gays from getting beat up. They had names like Pink Panthers, and the Third World Gays. I guess that was a '70s type of name. The Third World Gays ended up disbanding after they beat up a couple cops that were trying to beat up gay people ".
Photos from Walk to Loring ASLA event Photo Credits: Luke Nichols and Maggie Aravena
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"IT SEEPED INTO YOU.THERE W A S ALW A Y S A LOT OF CRUISING, CARS CIRCLING, MEN HANGING OUT. AND IT WASN'T U N US UA L T O OPEN THE PAPER TO SEE SOMEONE HAD B E E N B E AT U P OR MURDERED IN LORING PARK. THEY NEVER SAID W H AT I T W A S BUT YOU KNEW W H AT I T W A S . THAT'S WHY PRIDE HAD TO BE IN LORING PARK" --TOM HOCH
A Queer History of Loring Park Zine storytelling project Loring Park has a long history of connection to queer communities, ranging from a history of queer businesses in the neighborhood, to cruising, to homophobic violence. Loring Park’s queer history is often forgotten. This zine compiles primary sources like photographs and oral histories to explore Loring’s queer past and present. This research and zine eventually served as the starting point for a walking tour of Loring at the ASLA Conference in Minneapolis, fall of 2023. I collaborated with a group of LA professionals and students to curate speakers and content for the LGBTQIA+ landscapes walking tour.
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Upland Zone: Columbine Maidenhair fern Lady fern
Riparian Zone: Cardinal flower Monkey flower Sweet flag Marsh marigold
Shoreline restoration at Kenilworth Channel in Minneapolis--native plugs and shrubs installed as part of a large-scale erosion control restoration project on the channel. This project combined the work of multiple entities, including the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Minnesota Native Landscapes, and Landbridge Ecological. Shown in the diagram are a portion of the plug species planted.
Emergent Zone: Water plantain Arrowhead plant Blue flag iris
Soil lift
Erosion control blanker Rip-rap
Protective fence
Restoration in Practice Installation projects with Landbridge Ecological Through my time with Landbridge Ecological I installed a variety of different restoration projects, including shoreline and wetland, prairie, and woodland restoration. Scales ranged from residential to urban public space projects.
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Planting design for this garden focused on two themes-bio-materials and solastalgia, or climate grief. Plants were chosen for how they combine material uses with sensory experiences, to connect users back to the earth and the space they are in.
Technical Drawings Planting enlargement Nolte Plaza These drawings were made for classes in the Tech sequence using AutoCAD. Shown is a zoom-in enlargement for a planting plan at Nolte Plaza on the University of Minnesota campus.
SS: Little bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium Size: 2-3 ft height Conditions: Moist to dry soils, full to part sun Attributes: Blue-green color in summer, maroon in winter.
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AM: Yarrow, Achilea millefolium Size: up to 3 ft height Conditions: Mesic to dry, full sun Attributes: White umbral flowers in late summer
AF: Fragrant giant hyssop, Agastache foeniculum Size: 2-4 ft height Conditions: Dry to mesic soils, full or partial sun Attributes: Purple flower clusters in the summer, fragrant scent
SE: Heath aster, Symphyotrichum ericoides Size: 2-3 ft height Conditions: Mesic to dry soils, full to part sun Attributes: Small white flowers in fall, good pollinator plant
Existing Conditions
Parks and community gardens
Schools
Community centers and after school
Proposed Street Improvements
High traffic routes + program improvements
Low traffic routes
Existing program
Development 88 3 bedroom units Expansion space up to 238 units 52,800 sq ft commercial and community org. space
A highway removal project centering childhood autonomy
86 3 bedroom units Expansion space up to 135 units 50,400 sq ft commercial and community org. space High density
Low density
Rondo neighborhood, St Paul, MN Existing program
Green Space Network
Existing green space
Growing Up Rondo
New green space
Composite diagram
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Existing program
Growing Up Rondo radically reinvisioned a Rondo neighborhood without the I-94 interstate. In doing so, it considered how a community re-stitched from the harm done by the interstate could serve its most vulnerable residents--the children. Starting with a neighborhood framework applied to street and public space design, childhood autonomy and safety was prioritized within this project, guided by a quote from Rondo resident David Vassar Taylor: “The schools, community centers, religious institutions, churches, church school, youth, what have you, playgrounds, all that we ever needed, including a Dairy Queen, was within walking distance”.
Residential
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Pedestrian Boulevard Bike lane Buffer One way BRT Lane Green buffer
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Mixed use building
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Green space +unstructured play
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Dry creek stormwater collection
Urban Farm and Garden +Maxfield
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Urban Farm and Garden +Maxfield
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Urban Farm and Garden +Maxfield
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One-way Boulevard
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Bike lalne Boulevard Pedestrian Pedestrian
Freeway space was reclaimed for development through this project--allowing parkspace, housing, and social services to infill into land formerly dedicated to cars. Development chioces considered how Rondo could become navigable for children--and enrich the neighborhood for all users