Throughout the course, we have brushed up on urban spaces that have been created to make an overpopulated place like New York City a sustainable space in which to live. Parks are one of these urban spaces where we can keep in touch with our Earth system and remain in sync with the environment in any one of the 1,700 parks of the city. Prospect Park is one of the most prominent parks, located in Brooklyn and was built in the late 19th century. This project was the city’s solution to the problems faced at the time from overpopulation and it was a way to prevent urban decay. Prospect Park was intended to create a green space that promotes cleanliness, exercise, and green preservation. City parks serve multiple purposes to New Yorkers; from randomization of the space and locating each transect using careful geospatial pinpointing, we tapped into the park’s history, which we hope, from the data collected, will help improve the city’s future resilience.
The purpose of our experiment was to better understand how New Yorkers utilize this space today. We observed and analyzed the types of garbage, or human artifacts, found at Prospect Park. Through random sampling, we chose four zones, each a 20 meter long transect. The four 20 meter transects were then divided into intervals: 2 meters long and 1 meter wide. At these intervals, notes and photos were taken of the garbage found.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/Garbage-Analysis-in-Prospect-Park.pdf
Linda Dayan, Monika Devi, Heba Fakir, Michael Franco, Jensine Sajan, Thomas SawAung
Rebecca Boger, Margaret Galvan
Brooklyn College
garbage, Prospect Park, human activity
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