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stores and the rush of traffi c.”
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The trail ends unceremoniously about
two-thirds of a mile before reaching the Duwamish River, when the creek
again goes into a pipe to traverse a steel plant and a knotty mess of trans-
portation infrastructure.
The trail is not intended as a traditional nature walk or a recreation
venue for local residents but as a way to experience the hybridity of the
city by following the path of water from its headwaters to the Duwamish
River. It is the material realization of Janice Krenmayr's experiential urban
hikes of the 1970s as described in chapter 6 and forwards human experi-
ence as central to the reworking of the urban landscape. In addition to
wayfi nding signs and gateways, the trail is peppered with creative art
pieces, such as the Salmon Bone Bridge and the Dragonfl y Pavilion, that
serve as educational tools and visual metaphors for the creek (see fi gure
7.1). Refl ecting on environmental art as it relates to place, writer Lucy Lip-
pard notes, “Artists can be very good at exposing the layers of emotional
and aesthetic resonance in our relationships to place. . . . A place-specifi c
art offers tantalizing glimpses of new ways to enter everyday life.”
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This
Figure 7.1
Elements of the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail, including the water feature in the Westwood
Shopping Center (left), a wayfi nding sign (top right), and the Salmon Bone Bridge (bottom
right).
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