Engaging Youth Rights to the City Through DIY Skateparks

Shirtcliff, Benjamin

Engaging Youth Rights to the City Through DIY Skateparks

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2017-05-23

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Shirtcliff, Benjamin

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Shirtcliff, Benjamin

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Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture is an environmental design discipline. Landscape architects actively shape the human environment: they map, interpret, imagine, draw, build, conceptualize, synthesize, and project ideas that transform landscapes. The design process involves creative expression that derives from an understanding of the context of site (or landscape) ecosystems, cultural frameworks, functional systems, and social dynamics. Students in our program learn to change the world around them by re-imagining and re-shaping the landscape to enhance its aesthetic and functional dimensions, ecological health, cultural significance, and social relevance. The Department of Landscape Architecture was established as a department in the Division of Agriculture in 1929. In 1975, the department's name was changed to the Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning. In 1978, community planning was spun off from the department, and the Department of Landscape Architecture became part of the newly established College of Design. Dates of Existence: 1929–present

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Abstract

Concrete is plastic when wet, brittle before it cures, course without polishing or wax, cheap, readily available, easy to mix, and easily demolished. The paper presentation will unveil how a group of skaters and non-skaters, young people and young adults, failed and eventually triumphed to create the first public skate park in the City of New Orleans.

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This abstract is published as Shirtcliff, B. Engaging Youth Rights to the City Through DIY Skateparks. CCLR 15 Book of Proceedings: 15th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research May 23-26,2017 in Kitchener ON. Posted with permission.