Reactivating the In-Between: Mapping Camden, NJ

This studio was an exploration of scale, working from the regional to the city and down to specific interventions and designs. Our site was Camden, NJ a complex and deteriorated urban environment: economically, socially, and environmentally. My analysis of the city showed that it had been abandoned by commercial retailers. In addition, distinct, identifiable neighborhoods have grown in the areas between the floodplain and the transportation infrastructure, but environmental degradation and the loss of industry and agriculture which once occupied these in-between spaces have created dysfunctional boundaries.

My proposal seeks to reactivate these areas through a system of new urban development and public space, recreation space, and ecological corridors that support both the new development and the existing neighborhoods.

This work was completed as part of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania.