Biospectacle is a vision for 21st-century Québec City that leverages its rivers as major economic, ecological, social, and cultural assets. The rivers are considered as the very drivers of Québec City's ongoing urbanization process.
While interchangeable strategies and lessons from cities across the globe can be gathered and deployed in local conditions, the experience of Québec City's river landscapes are specifi c and cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Biospectacle promotes the individuality of Québec City's landscape experience through hybridrization of familiar and accessible tools for the global visitor. By augmenting physical space with digital options for information and choice, the ubiquitous value of landscape is maintained for all those who take part.
Biospectacle uses a synthesis of natural and virtual strategies to forge relationships between diverse audiences in Quebec City to drive its ecological, social, and economic future. As the accompanying scenarios depict, the strategies can strengthen existing relationships, highlight latent ones, and in some cases create new, unlikely, ones. We recognize the ever-changing, complex web of social and ecological audiences comprising Québec City's socioeconomic fabric, and therefore offer these strategies as starting points not only to be applied to relationships between audiences identified in this proposal, but also by ones unknown to us, and to future ones. These audiences include First Nations, school children, permanent and temporary city residents, rural residents, tourists, regional flora and fauna, and city planners and local government.
Mooseways is a regional strategy to strengthen wildlife corridors between major National Parks and Reserves in Canada and the Northeastern United States to allow for greater large mammal movement. Overcoming habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization will require strategic fencing, planting, and wildlife overpasses and underpasses. Ultimately, species such as the Moose Alces alces and Black bear Ursus americanus will be more present near and in Quebec City's river corridors for. These charasmatic megafauna can be used in advertising campaigns to increase ecotourism.
Sandhouses is a river-oriented development strategy that entails higher density housing, commercial, and office space near river corridors. With a projected need for 28,200 new households by 2036 in Québec City and the future of the CLS-Loma Sandpits uncertain, this strategy adapts these unique sites for a groundbreaking typologies.
Curating Corridors is a network of universally accessible pathways and vistas meant for discovery users. Each vista highlights an important civic or natural feature of Québec City and its broader environs. These views are curated through establishing pockets of forest (i.e. Sugar maple Acer saccharum, American Beech Fagus grandifolia, White ash Fraxinus americana) to obscure or highlight distant features.
River Edging regulates public control of Québec City's rivers throughout the year. For example, public art can drift from location to location along the rivers to catalyze activities, and temporary structures can motivate higher visitation of the rivers during winter months.
Benching utilizes color coding to communicate a cohesive organization of the landscape to a diverse array of audiences through a variety of conventional site furnishings and lighting operations.
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