Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Amanda Aman
Much unlike some of the most productive and operative rivers in the US (the Mississippi, the Hudson, etc.), the Trinity River exists more as a ghosted relic that reveals only remote traces of a past life. It has only slightly emerged from a shallow grave in recent years, but severely lacks an authentic reading of who it has truly served and belonged to. Its watershed traverses a landscape that was once a complex network of Indigenous civilizations that cultivated and cared for the land; its productivity was a function of an ecological and anthropogenic symbiosis. It cradled cultivated fields from the fallow alongside Freedman settlements, tethered to rail lines emerging from an industrial spirit. It sacrificed much if its adjacency to the strip mining of gravel for the building of Dallas and Fort Worth, leaving a novel ecology of ruin in its wake. Histories and ecologies were altered and forgotten, leaving its landscapes without a real understanding of their own stories and those of the people living within them.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.113.51
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rubén García Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7
