The project restores the Jones Falls River watershed to improve the quality of water flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Anticipating the disassembly of an intrusive expressway, the plan also reconnects city neighborhoods to each other and to a river that has long been inadequately diverted into a culvert running under the city and into the Inner Harbor. A generative landscape stitches across the inner-city corridor through a series of wetland terraces that ease stormwater into a tidal plaza. Restored wetlands allow water to fluctuate between the bay and river. The culvert remains to handle large storms; the wetland armatures reconnect the downtown and old-town districts. The jury observed that this hybridized urban infrastructure brings the landscape back to the city.
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