Rebecca McMackin and the Innovative Beauty of the Ecological Landscape

As Director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Rebecca McMackin played a leading role in transforming 85 acres of abandoned piers and pavement into a series of vibrant ecosystems that are a model of what an urban park can be.  We talk with her about her subsequent year of study at Harvard and her new endeavors to make ecological landscaping the mainstream.

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