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Allegheny Riverfront Park (1993-2001) includes a lower site, thirty-five feet wide and almost one mile long, and an the upper level along Fort Dusquesne Boulevard. The design team included—from the landscape architecture firm of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates—Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski and Laura Solano. The artists were Ann Hamilton and myself. Because all agreed that the park should embrace both its natural and urban conditions, we placed the lower park not just beside the river, but also in and over the water’s edge. Even the flow of cars and trucks along the Tenth Street Bypass remains integral to the site. And just as our design directly addresses its urban/natural context, so the artwork contributes a palpably human scale and dimension to the whole. In space and through time, art and park reinforce one another as a singular system of natural/cultural encounters. The nature of our working process makes it difficult to point anywhere in particular and claim, "Here is the landscape, and there is the art."

Related articles and writings
Amidon, Jane. series editor. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park (Sourcebooks in
Landscape Architecture 1) 2005. New York. Princeton Architectural Press.
Architecture. “Progressive Architecture Awards: Allegheny Riverfront Park.” (January 1997) pp. 59-61; 92-93.
Dawes, Tom, et al. “Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh.” The Arup Journal (March 1999) pp. 22-23.
Gutnick, Todd. "Decades-old Vision of Riverfront Park a Reality." Pittsburgh Tribune Review (1 Dec 1998) pp. B1-2.
Moffatt, David. “Allegheny Riverfront Park.” Places, a Forum of Environmental Design. 2002.
Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 10-13.
Pearson, Clifford A. "Michael Van Valkenburgh Takes People for a Walk . . . " Architectural Record
(March 2000) pp. 102-105.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The River Runs By It: Allegheny Riverfront Park Reclaims Part of Our
Heritage" (editorial). (14 December 1998).
Simon, Joan. Ann Hamilton. 2002. New York. Harry N. Abrams. pp. 182, 211, 213.