Garden History & DesignLizabeth Wardzinski
2019 The Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
Lizabeth Wardzinski is a PhD candidate in design at North Carolina State University. Wardzinski focuses her research on the Tennessee Valley Authority as a mechanism for shaping areas of the American consciousness as well as the landscape. In her dissertation, Wardzinski hopes to demonstrate how popular notions of conservation and the wilderness were vital to promoting the TVA mission of regional planning and decentralization. Focusing on the cultivation of the tourism industry by the TVA as a development model, Wardzinski contrasts recreational model-planning typologies of the TVA with development models of industrial and residential planning.
The Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
To further the study of history and design in the American garden and to look to the future of gardens and their unique place in our environment.
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