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The Kofi Boone Papers contains architectural drawings, studies, correspondence, files, and media clippings for projects that span Boone's student and professional careers. Boone's documented projects include: master plans completed during graduate school at the University of Michigan; urban design guidelines, planning analyses and public park designs completed at the multidisciplinary firm JJR Inc.; and participatory designs and place-based storytelling efforts completed out of the NC State Department of Landscape Architecture. Most graduate school and JJR projects are located in the Detroit area, and most NC State projects are located in North Carolina. The collection also includes web content: The Cultural Landscape Foundation blog, The Landscape Architecture Podcast, and a website featuring Kofi Boone's "Black Landscapes Matter" article.
Kofi Boone is an African American landscape architect and a professor in the NC State University Department of Landscape Architecture within the College of Design. Boone joined the Department of Landscape Architecture faculty in 2004. Through scholarship, teaching and extension service, Boone works in the landscape context of environmental justice and explores the use of new media as a means of increasing community input in design and planning processes.
Kofi Boone is an African American landscape architect and a professor in the NC State University Department of Landscape Architecture within the College of Design. Boone joined the Department of Landscape Architecture faculty in 2004. Through scholarship, teaching and extension service, Boone works in the landscape context of environmental justice and explores the use of new media as a means of increasing community input in design and planning processes.
A native of Detroit, Boone received his Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources degree in 1992 and his Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 1995, both from the University of Michigan. After graduating he worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary urban design and planning projects in the Michigan offices of JJR Inc., a firm founded in 1961 as Johnson, Johnson and Roy.
For more information, see https://design.ncsu.edu/people/kmboone/
The Kofi Boone Papers contains architectural drawings, studies, correspondence, files, and media clippings for projects that span Boone's student and professional careers. Boone's documented projects include: master plans completed during graduate school at the University of Michigan; urban design guidelines, planning analyses and public park designs completed at the multidisciplinary firm JJR Inc; and participatory designs and place-based storytelling efforts completed out of the NC State Department of Landscape Architecture. Most graduate school and JJR projects are located in the Detroit area, and most NC State projects are located in North Carolina. The collection also includes web content: The Cultural Landscape Foundation blog, The Landscape Architecture Podcast, and a website featuring Kofi Boone's "Black Landscapes Matter" article.
This collection is arranged in 3 series: 1. Drawings; 2. Personal and Project Files; 3. Web Content.
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.
[Identification of item], Kofi Boone Papers, MC 00618, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
North Carolina State University, College of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture Records (UA 110.019)
Gift of Kofi Boone, February 2017 (Accession no. 2017.0030).
Processed by: Lindsey Naylor and Gwynn Thayer; machine-readable finding aid created by: Lindsey Naylor, February 2017. Archived web content processed by Liz Bell, 2020 October.
The collection is organized into three principal series:
This series includes drawings of parks, athletic fields, and playgrounds.
The drawings are listed alphabetically by title.
Inlcudes studies and schematic design drawings for materials, planting and layout plans.
Includes overall site master plan, along with sketches, sections, analysis, studies and site plan for Ujima Marketplace.
Includes details, layout plans and conceptual site plans.
Includes perspective sketches and rendering.
Includes perspective sketches and rendering.
Includes grading plan, site studies, and rendered sections and perspectives.
Includes illustrated site analysis.
Includes schematic planting plan.
Includes site layout plan.
Includes master development plan.
Includes master plan.
This series contains files related to projects including parks, banks, townhomes, and apartment complexes. Also included are correspondence, media clippings, publications, an undergraduate paper from the University of Michigan and files from a design charette at the University of Michigan.
Files in the flat box are arranged alphabetically by project name, and the archival box is arranged chronologically.
Includes rendered plan alternatives and perspectives.
Includes existing and revitalization site plans.
Includes schematic design drawings and details for site, circulation, materials, grading and landscape plans.
Includes partial report on revitalization vision.
Includes bound community master plan and urban design framework.
Includes site studies, concept plans and elevations.
Includes bound analysis, urban design guidelines, and master plan.
Includes article from Toronto newspaper about Detroit revitalization efforts.
Includes final construction documents.
Includes paper titled "Synthesis: 1987- Children's Behavior at Zoo Exhibits/ 1991- Needs of an American Afrikan Outdoor Environment/ Presentation of victories, shortcomings and critical self-analysis of the research in light of contemporary literature and methodologies."
Includes faxed materials and logistics about the charrette "Lower Cass: Corridor, Neighborhood, District?"
Includes correspondence related to conferences, cultural landscapes and social justice.
Includes press clipping from The Detroit News about the Lower Woodward Avenue hub.
Includes press clipping from The Baltimore Sun about an Urban Design Assistance Team.
Includes schematic site plan.
Includes bound summary report.
Includes promotional booklet and greenway project files and correspondence.
Includes draft analyses for and updates to the planning and urban design guidelines for the City of Pontiac.
Includes site alternatives, section studies and precedent images.
Includes professional statement and a collection of published research.
Includes a collection of in-process work and research.
Includes handbook for project to collect place-based narratives through cellphone videos and images.
Includes bound report.
Access to physical material and digital files not available online may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room after staff review.
Some materials may not have been digitized or made available online.
Includes article about the community master plan process for Chavis Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Includes magazine report about a case study session.
This series is comprised of The Cultural Landscape Foundation blog, The Landscape Architecture Podcast, and a website featuring Kofi Boone's "Black Landscapes Matter" article. The content was captured by the NC State University Libraries since June 2020 using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It web archiving service, with prior captures by the Internet Archive dating to April 2019, which may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
The websites are listed alphabetically by title.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is The Cultural Landscape Foundation blog featuring Kofi Boone. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured one time since June 8, 2020. The Internet Archive has also captured this website, beginning in April 2019, and those captures may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is The Landscape Architecture Podcast featuring a converstation with Kofi Boone. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured one time since June 8, 2020.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This website features Kofi Boone's "Black Landscapes Matter" article. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured one time since June 8, 2020.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
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[Identification of item], Kofi Boone Papers, MC 00618, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.