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The New Jersey wetlands required a dynamic, selective process of clearing and designing that cannot be predetermined by static drawings.

Illustrates the impossibility of using conventional planning for a site where adaptation must happen step-by-step on the land.

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Mendham Township wetlands project (New Jersey)
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A proposed housing development on 15 overgrown acres requiring a dynamic, garden-like process of selective clearing, impossible to predraw.

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