Pratt Institute: Moving Dirt, Shaping Worlds
June 13, 2024
June 13, 2024
BROOKLYN, New York, June 13 -- Pratt Institute issued the following news:
Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) students were collecting soil samples in different parts of Brooklyn's Gerritsen Beach this past winter when they came across "a large elm tree that didn't exist anywhere else in the entire space," according to Connor Jacobs, MLA '26.
It was an unexpected discovery that neatly conveyed how humans alter landscapes in unintended and enduring ways, wi . . .
Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) students were collecting soil samples in different parts of Brooklyn's Gerritsen Beach this past winter when they came across "a large elm tree that didn't exist anywhere else in the entire space," according to Connor Jacobs, MLA '26.
It was an unexpected discovery that neatly conveyed how humans alter landscapes in unintended and enduring ways, wi . . .