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View Detailed Proposal STOSS MALTZAN UTILE STREAMLINES STREAMLINES is about the sheer unfi ltered experience of direct contact with the river and river life, in many ways, at multiple moments. And it’s about weaving these experiences back into the everyday city. STREAMLINES is also a project about working ecologies, ecological systems and dynamics put to work to clean, to re-constitute this working riverfront, and to guide a longer-term transformation of the city fabric. MULTIPLE HISTORIES, MULTIPLE CURRENTS But it is not about a single green line along the river. Rather, this project is about multiple threads, multiple strands; it evokes the stories and lives of the people who live, work, and play by the river’s edge and have done so for centuries. It builds from the rich histories and evolving identities of the Mississippi River, the ecological, economic, social lifeblood of the city, and of the continent. And it puts in place a series of working and operational landscapes, green infrastructures, and landscape-based urban fabrics that will guide this transformation for the next generation of city-dwellers, just as the Grand Rounds did for 20th-century Minneapolis. WORKING ECOLOGIES The parks must embrace a new mind-set for park-making, in which they are rendered engines for change, for ecological vibrancy, and for sustainable development. And they must not simply displace viable industry with open space. We want to make open spaces and urban fabrics that continue to work, that are rendered industrious: that seed and produce energy, food, and habitat; that clean soil and water; and that redirect waste resources to create new productive and hybrid ecologies, new provocative and engaging urban experiences. INFRASTRUCTURE AS PARK, PARK AS CITY To be truly transformative, the parks must take on a broader territory. Thus, the proposal’s individual strands (river park, botanical overlooks, sporty circuits, energy forest, city and river islands) accumulate over time and expand the river’s reach into the urban fabric. New infrastructures are rendered civic and social: catalysts, connectors, hosts of activity, and iconic orientation devices. In doing so, parks and park infrastructures can be fully infused into the rich mosaic of Minneapolis’s neighborhoods. STREAMLINES 1 STRATEGY The scope and scale of the project are quite ambitious—remake the riverfront, remake the city for next century. And the process for getting there is complex. So how do we do this? CLAIM THE RIVER. The river is out of reach up here: it is not part of the everyday experiences of city residents, and it is not part of the cultural imagination. This is in part due to the layers of infrastructure and industry that have occupied the larger river corridor between the neighborhoods of North Minneapolis and Northeast Minneapolis. Before anything happens, then, we must lay claim to the river as civic space, and as a territory for multiple uses: ecological, industrial, and social. By doing this, the river itself becomes the park before the parks exist. And the transformational period is rendered as exciting, engaging, and robust as the parks that will emerge from it. SEED THE PARKS. There is much work to be done, much to be cleaned and prepared for human and ecological life, funding to be garnered, communities and neighbors to be consulted, plans and designs to be drawn. This will take time. We want to leverage time, and the tendencies of the various ecological, hydrologic, and functional systems and processes invoked, to help seed and stage the parks—to prepare the ground and, in part, to do the work of construction for us. Remediation fi elds, holding landscapes, working spaces for green technologies; emergent river-islands (and habitats), water cleansing infrastructures, and new park and city islands; and the patient anticipation of new programs, activities, and resources that can be tapped down the line: all this sets the stage for parks and infrastructures that will accumulate over a number of years. The parks will be both opportunistic and catalytic: fl exibly taking advantage of new partnering and siting opportunities as they arise, while also instigating a multidimensional transformation of existing and emergent neighborhoods. ELABORATE NEW MODELS FOR CITY-LIFE. This is not simply a park plan. Rather, it is a strategy for transforming the larger urban fabric, and the everyday lives of locals and visitors alike. It does so by tapping into larger systems—infrastructural and ecological—and by extending its physical reach across the river, east-west into outlying neighborhoods, north-south to landscapes and towns that constitute the longer Mississippi corridor. The strategy is fl exible, and therefore sustainable—environmentally, urbanistically, and economically. It leverages underutilized and waste resources; fi nds effi ciencies in collaboration and cross-fertilization between urban and environmental systems; incorporates bridges and streets and light rail corridors as park infrastructures; and builds new synergies between work, public life, and the landscape fabrics that support them. Importantly, it is a 50- to 100-year plan, a series of parks and neighborhoods for the next generation of Minneapolitans. In this way, the various proposals contained herein will help guide these places’ gradual transformation, making for new kinds of parks and public infrastructures, for new working ecologies and landscapes and city fabrics that will come to revitalize Minneapolis for decades to come. 2 STOSS MALTZAN UTILE UPPER HARBOR TERMINAL SITE NORTH LOOP NICOLETTE ISLAND ST. ANTHONY FALLS MARCY-HOLMES HISTORIC MILLS DISTRICT STONE ARCH BRIDGE STREAMLINES 3 MISSISSIPPI STRANDS RIVER + FLOODPLAINS + EXISTING PARKS + RIVER PUBLICLY PARK OWNED LANDS BOTANIC (CITY + MPRB) OVERLOOKS + = SPORTY RIGHTS-OF-WAY + CIRCUITS UTILITY CORRIDORS ENERGY FOREST + RIVER ORCHARDS CONTAMINATED SITES + VACANCIES + NEW PARTNERS, NEW CONNECTIONS PROPOSED PARK FRAMEWORK 4 STOSS MALTZAN UTILE WEBBER- CAMDEN RIVER PARK MARSHALL TERRACE MCKINLEY GREENHOUSE NORTH DISTRICT MINNEAPOLIS NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS INDUSTRIOUS PARK NORTH CITY RIVERFRONT ISLANDS NORTH LOOP DOWNTOWN ACCESS DISTRICTS + NEIGHBORHOODS The North Riverfront is re-networked with walking + running Districts and neighborhoods are crucial to a successfully re- paths, recreational trails, bicycle lanes, sporty circuits, a energized riverfront. Five neighborhoods are imagined here. riverwalk, skating loops, bridges, street cars, and light rail. Although each is distinct, they share a common thread: all are Safe multi-modal corridors allow current industrial uses to connected directly to the Mississippi and to parkland, vital to co-exist with new social and recreational activity. the future of Minneapolis and its citizens. STREAMLINES 5 CLAIM THE RIVER! ACTIVATING The river up here needs an identity—people need to re- connect to it. Infrastructural corridors and industrial uses have long separated North and Northeast neighborhoods from the river, so that its physical closeness is imperceptible. Thus, to change people’s perceptions, and to re-make the northern riverfront within the cultural imagination and daily lives of city residents, we propose a three-part activation strategy. These projects are easy to execute and are purposefully conceived to have a signifi cant impact along the entire north riverfront, from the Falls to the city’s limits; they also buy us time, while site preparation, property acquisitions, and design drawings proceed. To this end, we imagine dancing lights in the sky, bobbing luminescent rowboats, and fl oating barges re-fashioned as bandshells, amphitheaters, and swimming pools—all creating new communities, new experiences on and along the river before the parks exist. This activation phase would also include the designation of fi ve river access points on both sides of the river, located at existing parks and boat ramps, and at moments where city streets meet the river. FLOW INTERSECT FlowIntersect is a light-scale light sculpture by interactive public artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that allows people to see the meandering of the river across the city. The installation consists of a number of powerful search lights placed at regular intervals along both shores of the Mississippi River. The lights are visible from a ten mile radius. Each pair of facing lights (one on each side of the river) is controlled together; the beams of light create two vectors intersecting directly above the river. The apex of their intersection changes in height and position based on data from sensing devices that will be placed in the river and which will measure speed, turbulence, and other environmental data; in this way, the light responds to the changing dynamics of the river itself. Importantly, their positioning and timing can be coordinated so as not to interfere with bird migrations or nearby uses. LIGHT-BOATS Light-boats are luminescent fi berglass rowboats which offer residents and visitors immediate access to the river above the falls. The boats, which will become a signature feature of the project, resemble white contoured pods during the day and glow evocatively at night. 6 STOSS MALTZAN UTILE AMPHITHEATER FLOATING / MOBILE PERFORMANCE PLATFORM PERFORMANCE CANOPY USED AT MULTIPLE SCALES The light-boats can be adapted with outboard motors, with SMALL-SCALE USE SINGLE OR DOUBLE SIDED sails and centerboards, and with runners for ice for use in all PERFORMANCE PLATFORM seasons and in response to many forms of weather. Their use and number can be expanded as the
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