CASE STUDY AND 500-WORD ESSAY

Running Head: THE DREDGESCAPING TOLEDO 2

THE DREDGESCAPING TOLEDO 2

The Dredgescaping Toledo

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The Dredgescaping Toledo

The Dredgescaping Toledo is a case study that attempts to advance an argument on the Dredge geologic by focusing more on the Maumee Bay, which is situated on the western side of Lake Erie and the largest area of the navigation system of great lakes. The project is all about the civic shed, watershed, and Dredge's systemic confluence shed into an overall productive and resilient shed that leverages beneficial relationships to make every shed robust . This takes place through numerous tactics that are termed as islands, lakes, and tributaries, which aim to expand the geologic of the Dredge. As such, I support the dredgescaping Toledo project[footnoteRef:1]. Comment by kiwi: Too similar to the description by The Open Workshop. Think about your argument, how the project operates transscalarly to respond to social/environmntal/ecological enactment Comment by kiwi: Let's withhold your position. Try sharpen the argument about how they operate first. [1: Callot, Jacques. (2011). Benezit Dictionary of Artists. https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00030618 ]

As the Toledo grew surpassing its urban core, the industrial lands were encircled by its fabrics. The industrial lands had initially colonized the riverfront. The lands are productive; hence they generate about seventy million-dollar jobs. However, these lands have created a wall between water and the expanded city. Additionally, they are also crucial for the economic health of the city. There is also a continuous public waterfront, which is usually perceived as a cultural catalyst vital for gentrification in various struggling cities like Toledo[footnoteRef:2]. Instead of the negating industry, this case study employs connectors between water and land, tributaries[footnoteRef:3]. Tributaries provide adequate public access via the ports' terrain. However, the tributaries rarely interfere with the numerous industrial lands. Comment by kiwi: You have used the passive voice in this sentence. You may want to revise it using the active voice. [2: Dredgescaping Toledo | The open workshop | Archinect. (n.d.). Archinect. https://archinect.com/theopenworkshop/project/dredgescaping-toledo] [3: Callot, Jacques. (2011). Benezit Dictionary of Artists. https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00030618]

Recently, the Toledo’s dredged materials are usually deposited at the mouth of River Maumee. The disposal technique is often being associated with the inciting algae blooms of Lake Erie, which usually compresses the aquatic ecosystem[footnoteRef:4]. However, by the dredged materials being deposited far away from Toledo, it is tedious to leverage it as a public amenity. The deposited material is capable of creating essential lands for the city. As per the geologic of dredging, it is essential to determine how the land can be operationalized in various states of matter, such as slurry to the soil. [4: Dredgescaping Toledo | The open workshop | Archinect. (n.d.). Archinect. https://archinect.com/theopenworkshop/project/dredgescaping-toledo ]

The proposal also utilizes a series of geotube pontoon islands, which are used in the processing of the dredged slurry in closeness with the city. Geotubes are massive bags usually fabricated from geotextiles; hence dredged materials are directly pumped into these bags, and at some period, purified water seeps out from this place. This technology is beneficial since the geotubes can easily be fabricated into various sizes; hence they can easily be deployed, emptied, stored, and filled. As such, both the sediments and the water are to be remediated and dewatered in close proximity to the toledo city without interfering with different navigation routes. Inhabitation of geotubes can happen during the dewatering phase as islands, and then later, they get treated as public lands. During the dewatering process, the islands host programmed platforms that connect to tributaries to form an archipelago.

The last phase of the case study elaborates on how the dredge cycle can interface with the hydrological cycle. Due to increased sewer Waterflow events, the Environment Protection Agency has mandated new stormwater management methods for Toledo [footnoteRef:5]. The study also proposes the employment of forecasted home sites in Toledo as a representation of various distributed detention basins. Comment by kiwi: What are these events? [5: You, W., Wang, S. S., Wang, Y. G., Lin, Q., Yu, X. X., & Li, P. F. (2014). Moulding process design of artificial purple jade ship basing on blast furnace slag. Advanced Materials Research, 937, 476-478. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.937.476 ]

This text is merely repeating what The Open Workshop has written about their project. While the details are very important, you need to build your argument in relation to those details. This argument is not about supporting or not supporting the project, but about how you synthesize their intervention as a transscalar operation to respond to the ecological and environmental enactments. Also, select three or four images best describing the project or supporting your essay.

References

Callot, Jacques. (2011). Benezit Dictionary of Artists. https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00030618

Dredgescaping Toledo | The open workshop | Archinect. (n.d.). Archinect. https://archinect.com/theopenworkshop/project/dredgescaping-toledo

You, W., Wang, S. S., Wang, Y. G., Lin, Q., Yu, X. X., & Li, P. F. (2014). Moulding process design of artificial purple jade ship basing on blast furnace slag. Advanced Materials Research, 937, 476-478. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.937.476