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Illuminating a Hidden Site

The Recovery of a Sacred Black Landscape

Mary G. Padua
Landscape Journal, May 2023, 42 (1) 53-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.42.1.53
Mary G. Padua
Mary G. Padua is a licensed landscape architect with experience in the public and private sectors, including managing her practice, MGP Studio art design research. Her practice and research activities focus on human-centered outdoor restorative environments and the cultivation of place. Simultaneously a design educator and professor at Clemson University, where she served four years as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Padua is an internationally recognized changemaker. She is an award-winning writer and visual artist with original photographs held in public and private collections. Her publications span China’s hyperurbanization, novel American landscapes, and interrogating the meaning of place.
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