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A Landscape Architect Who Loves Ruins and Hates Ruin Porn
Bargmann’s Main Town Park in Detroit. Photograph: Prince Concepts If there was a childhood second when Julie Bargmann experienced intimations of her foreseeable future as a landscape architect, it arrived not all through some backwoods tromp or although touring a lavish back garden but when she was sitting down in the back seat of her family’s station wagon on the New Jersey Turnpike. The good chemical vegetation exhaling sulfurous plumes appeared to her like magic kingdoms, and she questioned about the life of the folks within. Afterwards, when she was in higher education at Carnegie Mellon in the 1980s, Pittsburgh’s ozone-laced air gave her the similar jolt of industrial exhilaration.…


