Four concepts generate all trail aesthetics for better or worse. Learn how to use them to shape any type of trail for the better.
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October 24, 2019
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Pacific Time) {more time zones}
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This richly illustrated webinar introduces a small yet important portion of trailshaping. Trailshaping is a system of understanding in which simple, everyday forces shape (generate) the big picture, details, and nuances of all trails and all trail types, as well as context-specific trail planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management. The forces integrate nature, physics, logic, and emotion within themselves, and so everything shaped by the forces also integrates nature, physics, logic, and emotion throughout the whole. Among other things, trailshaping structures and explains how well-seasoned trail experts determine what to do in any given context, i.e., how to read and use the context itself to optimize the trail within that context.
Of the specific forces that shape each part of each trail, four of them potently shape trail aesthetics. These forces enable us to generate and explain trails with aesthetics based on the nature of trails themselves combined with the nature of any particular context. Through many examples, we’ll see how the forces interact to form trail aesthetics for better and for worse, and how these forces shape—and are shaped by—context-specific trail planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management.
(Note that the webinar, rich in photos and sparse in text, is much more enjoyable than this description. The description, however, sets the stage for how it is even possible to generate trail aesthetics through four forces.)
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Troy Scott Parker, Principal, Natureshape, LLC
Troy Scott Parker is principal of Natureshape LLC, a trail planning, design, and education firm based in Boulder, Colorado. He’s the author of Natural Surface Trails by Design and is known for his ability to integrate trail aesthetics in practical design. His current project is the development of trailshaping, a system for understanding all trails and trail types based on specific forces that shape them, and which shape—and are shaped by—trail planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management. Trailshaping structures and explains how well-seasoned trail experts determine what to do in any given context, enabling people to rapidly develop their own trail expertise. His clients include the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, state parks, local governments, developers, The Nature Conservancy, and other nonprofits.
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