African American Front Yard Designs
Front yard design is an extremely crucial aspect of African American neighborhood expression and identity. African American culture is exhibited within the front yards of residents in several ways. Although most yards display similar African American qualities of culture, each is diverse with its own character. Yards can contain decorative items such as bottle trees, root sculptures, and graveyard decorations, while others can be comprised of plant protective herbs. Furthermore some residents even chose to have swept-earth yards. A study was completed by Yan Xu, a University of Illinois landscape architecture student, in 1995 documenting African American front yard prototypes in the Edgemont neighborhood of Southeast St. Louis. To learn more, refer to
http://www.imlab.uiuc.edu:80/~eslarp/la/LA437-F95/final/yan/main.html
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