The often overlooked municipal architecture of the Manhattan Municipal Asphalt Plant. Robert Moses lampooned it as the "Cathedral of Asphalt" but now it is a recreation complex.
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The wild dogs are gone. But the lengthy entry demonstrates the many personalities of Akegera National Park that remain. Quite a place.
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- David Tulloch
- Director of SEBS General Honors Program and Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at tulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu Research online at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-9190 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lOLIQZ8AAAAJ&hl=en https://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/geohealth/
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