Unused and vacant lands occur in all cities as part of ongoing cycles of urbanization. Often shunned or ignored, these feral spaces present opportunities to foster landscape regeneration through self-initiated and proactive design techniques. The Belmont Goats project is a telling example. It illustrates how engaged and embodied forms of practice within our own habitual environment can generate desirable activity and build local and networked communities. Specifically, it speaks to the ability of landscape architects to skilfully "read" the urban landscape, and from those readings engage with the medium directly. This mode of practice offers possibilities beyond our profession's normative modes of chasing after pre-packaged client-based contracts and top-down capital-intensive projects. Rather, this work speaks to the underutilized potential of in-the-field approaches and to the proactive design of unsolicited works.
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