waterWORKS: RW_MastersBoardFinal Webster, Reed living machine ecology cinema green-infrastructure master plan Environmental systems Landscape architecture Sustainable architecture Urban planning Water shortages will be a global problem by the year 2025. With the Great Lakes Basin accounting for 95% of the fresh water in the United States it will soon become our most valuable natural resource. In re-defining urban relationships to the Great Lakes a healthy, ecologically stable, and regenerative water system can become our greatest national asset. Providing a prototype solution for one of these urban areas (Traverse City, MI) may set a precedent for long term protection of the Great Lakes. Felsen, Martin 5/3/2011 2011-05 Master's project Still image Chart Cartographic material Architectural model Plan Sections Site plan application/pdf islandora:11371 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/1863 ARCH / Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access