Landscape ArchitectureAmanda Martin
2025 The Moore Family Fellowship in The Making of the American Landscape
Greenlining: Civil Rights Struggles Over Access to the Outdoors
"Greenlining: Civil Rights Struggles Over Access to the Outdoors" reframes the existing historical and spatial narrative of Jim Crow by providing an expansive account of how structural racism in the outdoors was both developed and resisted across the United States during the twentieth century. This project will be the first to document “greenlining”–a term it introduces and defines as any attempt to deny people access to outdoor spaces based on their ascribed race, or using outdoor spaces as physical barriers to perpetuate racist segregation in the built environment. Overall, this project demonstrates how green spaces (such as parks, pools, and beaches) also became key sites of civil rights struggles
The Moore Family Fellowship in The Making of the American Landscape
To promote, expand, enrich, and develop the body of research in significant man-made changes to the American landscape since the country’s founding in 1776.
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