Old Gas Stations, New Fuel for Environmental Awareness

Alexandre Man-Bourdon, Master’s Thesis in Landscape Architecture at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

This research project addressed the role landscape architects can play as interpreter of the process and function on sites that are undergoing bioremediation and brownfield clean-up. The creative abilities of landscape architects to engage the public and help to educate/inform the public of the negative impacts that our lifestyles have. The research sought to link, in residents, the abandoned and derelict sites within neighbourhoods with the day to day actions we participate in such as filling our cars with gas, garbage disposal, stormwater treatment, etc.