Name: 【TED】Kate Orff: Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters! (Kate Orff: Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!)
Uploaded: 2017-04-17T08:54:51.000Z
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I am passionate about the American landscape

from the great Central Valley of California

has really shaped our history and our character.

our country -- and this is a sprawl map of America --

our relationship with the plants and animals

is sort of trying to literally re-imagine these connections

This graph represents what we're dealing with now

and sort of bring them together in an exciting new way.

So the era of big infrastructure is over.

mono-functional, capital-intensive solutions

So now I want to introduce you to my new hero

and -- did I mention? -- it's quite tasty.

for a manifesto-like urban design project

And the core idea of oyster-tecture is to harness the biological power

And what's circled is the site that I'm going to talk about,

But you can see, even just intuit, from this map,

that the harbor has dredged and flattened,

and went from a rich, three-dimensional mosaic to flat muck

Another set of views of actually the Gowanus Canal itself.

Now the Gowanus is particularly smelly -- I will admit it.

but I would also argue that almost every city

and it's a condition that we're all facing.

showing the contaminants in yellow and green,

one of the core ideas was to look back in history

there's this incredible geographical signature

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