{"id":106697,"date":"2023-08-04T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_project&#038;p=106697"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:02:38","slug":"the-rebirth-of-houstons-giant-but-ailing-memorial-park","status":"publish","type":"metro_project","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/the-rebirth-of-houstons-giant-but-ailing-memorial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rebirth of Houston&#8217;s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1404\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJI_0954-credit-Nick-Hubbard2-2048x1124.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">August 4, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading size-large\">The Rebirth of Houston&#8217;s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park <\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">The newly opened Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie is the first phase in the revitalization of the drought-stricken 1,500-acre park, the largest urban green space in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/sam-lubell\">Sam Lubell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>Photography: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/nick-hubbard\">Nick Hubbard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a 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is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">At 1,500 acres\u2014more than twice the size of New York\u2019s Central Park\u2014 Houston\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialparkconservancy.org\/\">Memorial Park<\/a> is the largest urban wilderness in the city, and in all of Texas for that matter. While beloved as a place to escape the concrete jungle\u2014 Houstonians come here to hike, bike, picnic, relax, or play tennis or golf\u2014 all was not well here for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">For one, the park had long been divided by a six-lane highway, Memorial Drive, which kept visitors from exploring, or even understanding, the park as a whole; dividing habitats, and interrupting natural processes like rainwater retention. And it was for years dangerously unhealthy, crippled by hands off land management, overgrowth, invasive and non-native plantings, and rotting roots; an unbalanced eco-system, increasingly vulnerable to both storms and drought due to increased peripheral development and climate change.&nbsp; A major drought spanning from 2011 to 2014 exposed this condition, with an estimated 80 percent of the oasis\u2019s tree canopy destroyed in many places.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Facing-East-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two lanes of a highway thread through a park with Houston's skyline in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-106703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Facing-East-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Facing-East-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Facing-East-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Facing-East-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Memorial Drive runs below the new land bridge, which connects two previously separated sections of the park. The bridge and surrounding areas are the first visible results of an eight-year long process to bring Memorial Park back from the brink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The response to this loud ecological wakeup call, and to a growing chorus of Houston residents, was a 2015 master plan led by Charlottesville and New York-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbwla.com\/\">Nelson Byrd Woltz <\/a>to restore and reimagine the entire park. Its first phase, the&nbsp; 100-acre Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie, which opened earlier this year, is a model for reviving and strengthening habitats and merging infrastructure with ecology; what Nelson Byrd Woltz principal Thomas Woltz calls landscape infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cWhy should we separate habitat restoration and large scale infrastructure?\u201d asks Woltz. He adds that as cities become both denser and more vulnerable to natural disasters this approach is likely to become the norm, not the exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">This kind of all-encompassing approach, adds Woltz, isn\u2019t new. It was standard practice in the days of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, who famously merged landscape, infrastructure, and culture to create some of the most impactful manmade landscapes ever created. As specialization became the norm in all the design fields, engineers (and their concrete and steel bulwarks against natural challenges like flooding ) would often come to lead major infrastructure projects, with landscape architects relegated to the planting and shaping of gardens, parks, and other greenspaces. Woltz hopes to again \u201cexpand the language of landscape architecture and what it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The firm\u2019s wide-ranging work at Memorial Park is funded by the Houston-based <a href=\"http:\/\/kinderfoundation.org\/\">Kinder Foundation<\/a> and Houston\u2019s Uptown Development Authority and managed by the Memorial Park Standards Committee (a partnership including the Memorial Park Conservancy, Houston Parks and Recreation, and other parties). The land bridge and prairie\u2014the result of untold hours of research, design, and construction, not to mention thousands of hours of civic outreach\u2014spans Memorial Drive via two dramatic landscape bridges, rising 34 feet above the roadway atop parabolic concrete paneled arches, cut back dramatically to visually merge with the landscape . The bridges and surrounds were blanketed with 540,000 cubic yards of soil, all taken from the park itself, carefully infused with seeds, fungi, and other natural elements from the nearby Katy Prairie. Topped with diverse plantings and amenities, the oval-shaped land bridges dramatically reduce traffic noise, re-connect habitats, expand the park\u2019s trail system, and even provide a culvert stream corridor running under Memorial Drive, aiding significantly with park drainage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<section class=\"post-card-indiv\"><div class=\"post-cards__image\"><a class=\"post-cards__link\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/thomas-woltz-soil-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Land-Bridge_Aerial_2019_06_07-Extended-Final-reduce_Design-Distill-for-NBW.jpg\" alt=\"external post image\"\/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"post-cards__content\"><p class=\"type\">Viewpoints<\/p><a class=\"post-cards__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/thomas-woltz-soil-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><h4>For Thomas Woltz, Soil Is the Most Important Surface There Is<\/h4><\/a><p>The founding principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects discusses how soil can advance both ecological and social justice.<\/p><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Woltz knew things were heading in the right direction when he climbed on top of the land bridge, just topped out, and saw a slew of animal footprints in the mud. \u201cTo watch it come alive was an incredible moment,\u201d he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Habitat restoration, largely led by Texas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whf-texas.org\/\">Wildlife Habitat Federation<\/a> (WHF), re-establishes this area of the park\u2019s native coastal prairie, which was all but ignored when the facility hastily opened in 1925, and was further eroded via ad hoc interventions like grass clearings, ballfields, parking lots, and roadways. (Only 1 percent of the entire region\u2019s native prairie still exists.) Since native habitats developed here over thousands of years, says Woltz (a fact proven by soil boring studies undertaken during early stages of research) they are far better at absorbing stormwater, weathering droughts, and providing healthy habitats for wildlife. They also don\u2019t require wasteful irrigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The park\u2019s overall redevelopment, which will continue for another decade or so, will restore a multitude of other native gulf coast habitats, including post oak savannah, wetlands, and mixed pine, hardwood, and riparian forest. And it will clearly organize what was a jumbled mix of often undefined uses. Another completed piece is the 100 acre Eastern Glades, on a formerly unusable area of the park that now includes a large lake, wetlands, trails, boardwalks, and pocket islands of native savanna habitat interspersed with turfed social pathways. A coming piece is Memorial Groves, just east of some still-in-use north south railroad tracks in the park, set to honor those who served at Camp Logan, a military camp that occupied the site prior to the park\u2019s creation. The area will include the remains of Camp Logan structures, motts of existing trees, and rows of newly planted native pine trees, recalling the pine-dominated landscape of Camp Logan, and individual soldiers in formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Meanwhile, although it\u2019s still relatively park poor, Houston is becoming a model city when it comes to both building new parks and merging infrastructure and ecology. The metamorphosis of Houston into a new haven for green space kicked off in the 1980s, when the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston\u2019s largest chamber of commerce, began advocating for a vision for the city based on livability as a competitive advantage, leading to popular public spaces like Hermann Park (addition and restoration), Discovery Green, and Levy Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Mound-Credit-Nick-Hubbard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Mound-Credit-Nick-Hubbard.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Mound-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Mound-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Memorial-Park-Kinder-Land-Bridge-Mound-Credit-Nick-Hubbard-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Since then, much of the undeveloped land in the city, points out Woltz, has been part of the river corridor, so that \u201cYou can\u2019t have a landscape here that isn\u2019t a resilient infrastructure project.\u201d Outside of Memorial Park, the most dramatic example is the 160 acre <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/rudy-burner-award-buffalo-bayou\/\">Buffalo Bayou Park<\/a>, which a team led by SWA transformed from an abandoned property beneath a tangle of elevated freeways into a lively open space allowing for connections among neighborhoods and the river. Like Memorial Park, Buffalo Bayou was supported by the Kinder Foundation, founded in 1997 by Richard and Nancy Kinder. (Richard is Executive Chairman of Kinder Morgan, one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America), which is targeting parks across the city to help make Houston a more livable and equitable place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cThe idea of green infrastructure is starting to gain a foothold in the general imagination, says Sarah Newbery, Kinder Foundation Director of Parks and Greenspace, who notes that the city\u2019s biggest challenge around such efforts is getting public dollars to flow in to accompany private ones. \u201cThere have been people interested in moving away from sort of the bravado, straight lines, and concrete of engineering. But what does it look like to create built environments holistically integrated with all these natural systems? That\u2019s where landscape architects in particular have expertise to offer; because you are thinking always about broader systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/I9A0108-credit-Nick-Hubbard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/I9A0108-credit-Nick-Hubbard.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/I9A0108-credit-Nick-Hubbard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/I9A0108-credit-Nick-Hubbard-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/I9A0108-credit-Nick-Hubbard-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The land bridge, prairie, and other new elements are still growing in. But so far the response has been overwhelmingly positive among locals, who came out in droves before the Texas summer heat (and heat domes) started to set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cI think it is truly transformative,\u201d Newbery says. While some residents still miss the thick trees that were lost to drought (proving unsustainable in many locations), \u201cpeople are learning to appreciate what a prairie ecology looks like.\u201d When the rest of the park comes to life, she adds, \u201cthe landscape is going to be a painting of the natural hydrology and ecology of the site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">She recalls taking her sister on an evening visit to the prairie and land bridges not long after they opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cYou got up there, and all of a sudden all you heard were crickets and tree frogs. You could see downtown glowing to the east and uptown to the west, but what was filling your senses was the breeze and the sound of animals. You felt like you were in your city, but it was so deeply relaxing. I was kind of overcome by the experience of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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