| This thesis investigates the role landscape architects as leaders and challenges actions in transforming the planning and design approach of marginalized communities and lands. I propose an Asset Based Design approach, integrated with Ecological Design and practiced through Design Activism. A Transformational Landscape Design [TLD] framework has been developed to activate social and ecological assets. The main driver is Design Activism. The completion of a comprehensive literature review, its analysis, and a final synthesis with knowledge gained through the study of three specific precedent projects, allows the [TLD] framework to be applied, and hypothetically test a real marginalized community. El Rio Villas is selected as the farmworker community on public housing. |
