MARCO RANGEL MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2020 CORNELL UNIVERSITY
27 - MAGIC VALLEY; WHERE THE RIVER MEETS THE SEA
ABOUT Marco Rangel is from McAllen, Texas and holds a graduate degree in landscape architecture from Cornell University and an undergraduate degree in urban design from Parsons The New School. Prior to entering graduate school, Marco worked as an interpretive naturalist where he developed a profound connection to landscape through environmental education and many memorable birding excursions along the lower Rio Grande.
-isms & -ologies +Professional Work - Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
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Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center - 50% Schematic Design
+Design Studios - Cornell University
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Azure Necklace: Boston Harbor Islands National Park Reef Urbanism: A Climate-Adaptive Coney Island Tracing Place; Shifting Shores in Ossining, NY Salem’s Landscape Conduit Diverting the Del: Visions for the DL+W Corridor
+Master’s Thesis - Cornell University
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The Imaging of Landscape: Land Development + Design in the Magic Valley of the Rio Grande
QUINTA MAZATLAN WORLD BIRDING CENTER 50% SCHEMATIC DESIGN SUMMER 2019 TEN EYCK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS This professional internship provided the opportunity to closely collaborate on a strategic master plan that envisioned an expansion of the Quinta Mazatlan site to manifest a new building, connections to the existing trail system, and an adventure playground with an interpretive water feature, berms, themed gardens, new trails, shade structures, a low ropes course, and seating. Notable contributions to the design included siting program, compiling botanical lists for the planting schematic, and conceptualizing the central water feature- a cartographic landscape that presents itself both as an outdoor exhibit and a chance to cool off in the sub-tropical, semi-arid climate of south Texas. From its “headwater” source, the recirculating water spills down a rocky and vegetated slope into a lower paved area that mimics a deep river gorge. The water then runs in an irregular runnel with varying width and a combination of stone paving, boulders, and pebbles. The water disappears at a dry arroyo where a second water source acting as a tributary begins a new riverway with vegetation that leads to a large, shallow pool with an operable dam feature that visitors can manipulate. Below the dam, the water enters another shallow pool that represents the Gulf of Mexico. GIS + CAD + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP + HAND DRAWING
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SHADED PAVILION
NATURE PLAY ‘WALK THE RIO’
BIRDING TRAIL CENTER FOR URBAN ECOLOGY
RIO GRANDE LONGITUDINAL PROFILE
ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN
CENTER FOR URBAN ECOLOGY
‘WALK THE RIO’ TYPOLOGIES
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AZURE NECKLACE: BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK SPRING 2019 INTEGRATING THEORY + PRACTICE II CORNELL UNIVERSITY In colonial days, Boston Harbor was a place of coastal beauty where one could smell the tides – an elegant convergence of land and sea. Today, its archipelago of islands comprise a national park that offers a sense of respite and retreat from New England’s largest metropolis. Seeking to overlay cultural, environmental and aesthetic values in landscape architecture, this littoral park system reframes the national park identity as a calligraphic articulation of Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy in the area, extending the gesture of a terrestrial network of parkways into the marine realm. Rather than emphasizing specific resilient strategies that respond to rising tides, the framework focuses on translating the material enchantment and performative qualities of waterscape while simultaneously defining shorelines as beyond mere line boundaries and moreso as larger sets of field points at different locations. Two islands were chosen for design exploration to offer contrast between themes of stewardship and storytelling. GIS + CAD + RHINO + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP + WATERCOLOR + LASER CUTTER + HAND MODELING
MANAGEMENT AGENCIES Stewardship
Ferry
Beachcombing
Seaport
<175’ Elevation Range <75’ Elevation Range <25’ Elevation Range Emerald Necklace
Campfire Pits
Visitor Center
Tidepooling
Lighthouse
Vulernable to Sea-level Rise
Wildlife Viewing
Citizen Science
Picnic Area
Kayaking
Restroom
Dive Site
Freshwater
Accessible to Public Restricted Use Ferry Routes
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and Recreation (DCR) 1 Bumpkin Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 3 Calf Island - Harbor Islands State Park 5 Gallops Island - Harbor Islands State Park 6 Georges Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 7 Grape Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 9 Great Brewster Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 10 Green Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 11 Hangman Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 14 Little Calf Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 16 Lovells Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 17 Middle Brewster Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 21 Outer Brewster Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 22 Peddocks Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 23 Raccoon Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 28 Sheep Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 29 Slate Island - Harbor Islands Reservation 31 Spectacle Island - Spectacle Island Park 33 Webb Memorial State Park - Webb Memorial State Park
2 Button Island 12 Langlee Island 24 Ragged Island 26 Sarah Island
Town of Winthrop
15 Long Island - Agency Designation: Public Health Commission campus; Long Island Head Light 18 Moon Island - Agency Designation: Boston Fire Department Training Facility; Boston Police Department Firing Range 25 Rainsford Island - Agency Designation: None
30 Snake Island
U.S. Coast Guard, First District
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
13 Little Brewster Island 19 Nixes Mate
4 Deer Island 20 Nut Island
Privately Owned 8 The Graves
27 Shag Rocks The Trustees of Reservations 34 Worlds End World’s End Reservation Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center (TIOBEC) 32 Thompson Island
National Marine Sanctuary
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REEF URBANISM: A CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE CONEY ISLAND FALL 2018 INTEGRATING THEORY + PRACTICE I CORNELL UNIVERSITY This speculative concept design observed Coney Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past, current and future conditions as co-actants within an assemblage of forces concerning climate change in relation to the future of the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban landscape. The notion of plugging into an existing chain of offshore artificial reefs with temperate coral became a design driver in creating a destination for the future community of Coney Island, as well as the organization and form of emerging built and natural landscape typologies inspired by coral anatomy and patch reef habit. Historical uses of the barrier island influenced the incorporation of productive aquaculture such as saltworks, clam beds, and coral farms that collectively generate adaptive economies and community-driven engagement with sea level rise. The salient amusement park identity and presence of the New York Aquarium amalgamate as a holistic experience that responds to the under-the-sea narrative with opportunities for unorthodox recreation and education. GIS + CAD + RHINO + VRAY+ ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP + LASER CUTTER
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AQUARIUM
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FERRY ARRIVAL
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ARTIFICIAL REEF
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DISCOVER
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TRACING PLACE; SHIFTING SHORES IN OSSINING, NY FALL 2019 CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE DESIGN STUDIO CORNELL UNIVERSITY GIS + CAD + RHINO + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP LANDFORM RESILIENCE
BOTANICAL TACTICS
PEOPLE + ADVOCACY
Adapt to sea level rise and storm-driven flooding in the Hudson River estuary using the manipulation of topography to trace shifting shorelines along the waterfront, thereby creating new territorial identities while redirecting floodwater and slowing down runoff.
Employ regenerative green infrastructure in the form of vegetated sill and rocky shoreline woodland to enhance the ecological function of the waterfront by introducing new habitat, aiding in the sequestration of carbon, mitigating urban heat island effect, and cleaning stormwater runoff.
Support a diversity of uses, from recreation, maritime, and commerce where appropriate, thereby maximizing not only economic potential via publicprivate partnerships, but equity and access for all through participatory place-making that inspires collective creativity and experiential value.
terrestrial aquatic family
elevate
incarcerated citizen “¡Mira la vista!”
tourists
excavate
“Let’s stay a few more hours, yeah?”
“Time to check on the plants.”
local youth “I can’t believe this creek is so full of life!”
CLIMATE-ADAPTATION SCENARIOS
WET + DRY FLOODPROOFING
RELOCATION + REMOVAL
COMBINED FLOODPROOFING + LANDFORM SCHEMATIC
current shoreline
landform becomes riverine islet 2060´s
shoreline 2050´s initiate flood-proofing 2020’s existing structures
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shoreline 2080´s expanded flood-proofing 2040´s
designated structures for relocation + removal
landform becomes shoreline 2080´s complete flood-proofing 2050´s
I THE REVERIE
II THE HARBOR
Begins as an outside laboratory for the production of living shoreline material by a rehabilitative and reentry program for incarcerated citizens at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Program participants gain agency as nurseryman, stewards and innovators in the realization of living shorelines that weave through the waterfront. By 30” sea-level rise in the 2050’s, tracts of Sing Sing west would transform into the expanded grounds of the Sing Sing Prison Museum, showcasing the innovation of landscape with the addition of a prominent central berm gently sloping toward the water with a vegetation-only edge.
III A STONY PLACE
Bridges A Stony Place to the Sing Sing Prison Museum grounds by activating existing and future shorelines as green infrastructure to create a floodable park. An interlacing sill landscape feature traces the current and 30” SLR shorelines framed by two large berms set at the 60” SLR shoreline. Collectively, the spaces redefine the park by embracing the Hudson River’s ever-changing hydrology while retaining key areas for public gathering and temporal program at various scales, including July 4th celebrations and public art symposiums to name a few. A robust planting strategy along the water’s edge and atop the berms compliments topographic design elements that are meant to provide for the occupation of new ground in accordance with the rising tides.
IV WATER ST TERRACES
Downstream from the terraces lies A Stony Place, inspired by the way the indigenous Sint Sincks took their name from the rocky ground, reflecting the natural world beneath them. Here, the opening of the creek mouth provides both estuarine habitat and public space along the threshold of two waterfront realms- the marina and the park. A wide, boulder-strewn berm provides an overlook toward the Hudson at its high point along the banks where the Sing Sing Kill empties into the river. The newly operating Westerly Shops + Marina retail hub sits adjacent to the kill and at the base of the berm, which brings a bustling energy of people, landscape, and economic merit to the heart of the waterfront.
Serves as a primary corridor of development that runs parallel to the waterfront and offers perpendicular access from downtown Ossining uphill. A central landscape feature is the dramatic widening of Sing Sing Kill that reintroduces meandering to the creek for new ecological value, interactive areas where people can experience the tributary, and most importantly, an increased capacity to detain water and decrease the velocity within the floodway. Flood-proofing of proposed and existing buildings with historic or monetary value is imperative.
I living shoreline | vegetation only gentle slope for marsh migration
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1825 cell block
prison museum grounds
eco slip
tributary overlook
living shoreline | sills sing sing kill mouth
westerly shops + marina
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flex wall protection ossining boat + canoe club
gathering space living shoreline | sills
sing sing prison museum
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wastewater treatment plant
railway mixed residential + parking
sing sing kill
main st ossining
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harbor square
vocational training
shattemuc yacht club
ossining boat + canoe club westerly shops + marina
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sing sing prison museum
living shoreline outdoor lab historic 1825 cell block
ossining rail stop
mixed residential + parking
mixed retail + eateries
mixed residential + parking
sing sing correctional facility
sing sing kill
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SALEM’S LANDSCAPE CONDUIT
MARITIME WOODLAND + SHRUBLAND
SPRING 2020
BIRCH - WHITE PINE COMMUNITY
ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO CORNELL UNIVERSITY
PITCH PINE AGGREGATE INTERTIDAL VEGETATION
Salem’s Landscape Conduit is a manifesto for the interface between industry and the public realm against a coastal New England backdrop perhaps more known for its macabre colonial BERM ASCENT history than its legacy of maritime trade BERM PLATEAU and energy production. In a decade’s time, contemporary landscape design has evolved to position itself as a rising leader in climateWIND TURBINE MANUFACTURING readiness with initiatives like Rebuild by Design and the Green New Deal claiming space DISCRETE PATH in discussions atop the forums of academia and professional practice. In conversation with these themes, the landscape conduit COASTAL MEADOW OBSERVATION DECK posits itself as an arterial installation that fosters urban connectivity at its core, while RAMP COIL PROJECTED ENERGY DISTRIBUTION channeling structural, biotic, and atmospheric LOW HIGH energy along a route that frames a green job campus. Stitching together a cohesive idea about the harbor’s edge and its perpendicular access points, the proposed landscape merges HARBOR INTERFACE ecological performance, interpretation of industrial history, environmental education, and social program into a cohesive, synergistic scheme where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and can begin to connect Salem’s cultural and natural history with the waterfront. GIS + CAD + RHINO + VRAY + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP + HAND DRAWING
FOLDED ZINC CLAD RETENTION WALL OBSERVATION DECK
CANTILEVERED OVERHANG
INTERTIDAL SLIP + BERM
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EARTHSTONE GRAVITY RETENTION WALL
MARITIME INDUSTRIAL ZONE
ELEVATED WALKWAY
HARBOR PATH LOADING AREA
TURBINE EXPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
SALEM HARBOR
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Acer rubrum - Red Maple
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Ilex opaca - American Holly
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Quercus alba - White Oak
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AUTUMNAL SCHEMATIC - 2050
SALEM HOUSING AUTHORITY
Nyssa sylvatica - Black Tupelo Pinus rigida - Pitch Pine
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BIRCH-WHITE PINE COMMUNITY
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DIVERTING THE DEL: VISIONS FOR THE DL+W CORRIDOR SPRING 2019 INTEGRATING THEORY + PRACTICE II CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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This infrastructure reuse project for Buffalo, NY derives formal inspiration from diversion patterns of tributaries and rail lines. It links parks and public spaces through a green network using a native planting strategy to proliferate existing ecosystem services through the surrounding urban fabric while also connecting communities with neighborhood amenities through designed detours that generate public engagement and a sense of local pride. GIS + CAD + RHINO + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP
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THE IMAGING OF LANDSCAPE: LAND DEVELOPMENT + DESIGN IN THE MAGIC VALLEY OF THE RIO GRANDE FALL 2020 MASTER’S THESIS CORNELL UNIVERSITY
The Imaging of Landscape fosters a resolution of space, place and performance that choreographs both environmental function and cultural perception. The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a sort of terra incognita for the contemporary disciplines of landscape architecture and urbanism, serves as a critical site of inquiry to explore how design can hack this resolution. Furthermore, the agency of image in altering the material transformation of landscape through design has implications for broader land-site development strategies in landscape architecture. A design driver formed by weaving research and site analysis together into a conceptual schematic that draws from the influences of remote sensing, printmaking, land-parceling, and picture-element (pixel) based drawing. This design proposal seeks to iterate the image of landscape by employing an intersectional trinity of infrastructures (vegetative; waterways; social gathering spaces) that allow new residential and commercial development to organize at the peri-urban fringes of the Valley’s sprawling corridor. Using vegetation as a primary actor and structuring agent, this new form of urbanism arises from the multiplicity of histories across the site, as well as its imagined futures. GIS + CAD + RHINO + ILLUSTRATOR + PHOTOSHOP + HAND DRAWING
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CURT TEICH 1931-1950
LINEN PAPER - EMBOSSED
COLOR CHART - C.T. “ART-COLORTONE”
RAILROADS WESTERN GRADIENT
CENTRAL GRADIENT
EASTERN GRADIENT
ATCHISON TOPEKA SANTE FE RAILWAY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
ST LOUIS BROWNSVILLE MEXICO RAILWAY BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
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PLACE MYTHS
Upon comparing postcards produced for the Valley with Southern California, a heavy emphasis on featuring botanical elements in the landscape is apparent. In this case, the usage of exotic palms and other tropical foliage optimizes the allure of these areas. Vibrant colors are mixed in with perspective views to draw viewers into the scene.
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ECOREGIONS SOUTHEASTERN CONIFER FORESTS SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL PINE OAK FORESTS EASTERN GREAT LAKES LOWLAND FORESTS SOUTHEASTERN MIXED FORESTS UPPER MIDWEST FOREST SAVANNAH TRANSITION WESTERN GULF COASTAL GRASSLANDS CENTRAL + SOUTHERN MIXED GRASSLANDS CALIFORNIA COASTAL SAGE + CHAPARRAL GREAT BASIN SHRUB STEPPE MOJAVE DESERT CHIHUAHUAN DESERT TAMAULIPAN MEZQUITAL +BIOME - DESERT + XERIC SHRUBLANDS +TAMAULIPAN THORNSCRUB, A SUBTROPICAL, SEMI-ARID VEGETATION TYPE, OCCURS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIO GRANDE. +CLEARING AND CONVERSION OF SHRUBLAND FOR AGRICULTURE HAS HAD THE GREATEST IMPACT ON ALTERING THE PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF THE LANDSCAPE OF SOUTH TEXAS AND NORTHEASTERN MEXICO. +ONLY SMALL PATCHES OF THE ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE REMAIN. +STATUS - CRITICAL/ENDANGERED < 3% LEFT
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HONEY MESQUITE
CITRUS
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TEXAS PRICKLY PEAR
TEXAS EBONY
MEXICAN FAN PALM
ANACUA
Historic imaging of natural habitat in the Valley was rare and often biased toward the one native palm species, Sabal mexicana, which is slow-growing and thus not as often incorporated into the designed landscape like the stately Mexican Fan Palm, Washingtonia robusta.
CARMINE DYE WITH COTTON FABRIC
COCHINEAL + TEXAS PRICKLY PEAR
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RE-IMAGING URBAN FORM LAND PARCELS
REMOTE SENSING
CURT TEICH
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IMAGING CODIFICATION + TRANSECT In a concerted effort to establish design hierarchy that prioritizes landscape for the existing and future residents of the community, as well as endangered natural habitat, a codification system of various land-use types and site elements was derived along a series of transects through space and time to reveal opportunities for the emergence of new urban form. Ag - AGRICULTURE CAg - COMMUNITY AGRICULTURE C - CAR LINE FOR INTL CROSSING F - FALLOW LAND FW - FLOODWAY G - GREENWAY
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IB - INTL BORDER CROSSING NP - NATIVE PLANT CROPS R - RESIDENTIAL FABRIC RI - RIO GRANDE SC - SHOPPING CENTER V - VEGETATION
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2041 Thematic goals for the re-imaging of the site seek to activate a material palette that will: (1) Heighten cultural expression in programmatic spaces through the introduction of true plazas (2) Mitigate urban heat island and extreme heat by reintegrating the indigenous plant vernacular into newly developed urban land parcels (3) Connect the existing patchwork of remnant natural areas with a system of greenways that also serve as walkable thoroughfares for the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhabitants, and (4) Highlight agricultural heritage with the integration of hybridized canal trails and community agriculture for food and native plant production through pixel cropping- a practice where smaller field sizes and higher resolutions of diversity within the field can deliver more ecosystem services than bigger areas of sole crops. The novel matrix of land use typologies blur their edges while maintaining a unit of familiarity that is not arbitrary sprawl, providing both fuzzy and saturated resolutions.
Core design elements can be translated into multi-pixel aggregates where: (1) the planting schematic, including ornamental, habitat-driven or agricultural, becomes a working system based on cultural identity and the ecology of plant communities (2) water systems as green infrastructure are revived and integrated into the development as a means to bring a more tangible Rio Grande to the community and (3) plazas for social gathering manifest as important nuclei for recreation and economic vitality that a network of canal trails lead to and from. Through the integrated nature of an unforeseen pixel-based urbanism in the Valley, the modern booster image paves way for a digital artifact of the future that endeavors to hack the resolution of the Magic Valley place myth in a manner that is more acutely responsive to cultural atmospheres, accompanied by an emphasis on stewarding the environment and its natural splendor.
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COMMUNITY AGRICULTURE INTEGRATED PLAZA + CANAL SYSTEM RESIDENTIAL - SINGLE FAMILY HABITAT CORRIDOR + TRAIL NATIVE PLANT CROP
FALLOW LAND
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PALM ALLEE + CANAL TRAIL
RESACA RESTORATION
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COMMERCIAL CENTER FALLOW LAND NATIVE PLANT CROP
SUNKEN PLAZA
IMAGING TYP 2 COMMUNITY AGRICULTURE
PALM ALLEE + CANAL TRAIL
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63 - SHARYLAND; MAGIC VALLEY OF THE 21ST CENTURY