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The
American Village
In 1995 the Alabama Legislature chartered the
Citizenship Trust, a public educational organization whose mission is to
enhance and expand citizenship education for Alabama citizens. Central to
the Trust’s educational mission is the creation of The American Village,
an interactive site where students learn about citizenship through
participation in a unique classroom setting. The Landscape Architect was
hired in 1996 to provide an overall master plan and landscape design
services.
The master plan combines physical and social forms
evocative of the American experience. Exhibits, buildings, and spaces are
grouped in three themed districts on the 115-acre site, related and
defined by their physical setting. Using the relationship between
structures and physical space in a village green, courthouse square,
farmstead, and small-town main street the master plan reinforces concepts
of community, citizenship, and active participation in a democratic
society. |