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Zuz Poster Text your backyard is a biological preserve leveraging density and cooperative industry in rural adaptive reuse to protect biodiversity and create vibrant community  

“The dominant trends in biological resources in the past century have to do with economic shifts, primarily the growth and decline of farming, followed by regrowth of forests on old fields, then expansion of suburban land uses into former farm fields, orchards, and woodlands.”

At their best, cities stand in dynamic tension with rural lands around them. ____ harnesses these forces, embedding a vibrant urban community in high quality landscapes managed for biodiversity and ecological resilience. Dense, transit-oriented development forms a local node for industry, commerce, and cultural diversity, while providing an economic model to ensure the surrounding three hundred acres of ecologically-sensitive habitat can never be developed. The urban core draws in local and regional economic flows; the protected countryside affords endless recreation while supporting upstate New York’s unique ecological networks. In juxtaposing the city and a biological preserve,  ____ reverses decades of haphazard suburban development. By designing their relationship, each can  bring out the best in the other.