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Preserving The Bahamas’ natural beauty
The waterfront is central to community life in Tarpum Bay on the archipelago island of Eleuthera. And students in Professor Hala Nassar’s landscape architecture studios have partnered with the local community to cast a vision for its future. Undergraduate and graduate students used feedback from Tarpum Bay community members to create designs for the waterfront that preserve the town’s identity while solving environmental and ecological challenges. Their proposals will be considered by Tarpum Bay locals, government officials, members of Parliament and government ministers this year before select students travel to the site with Nassar in a new study abroad offering.
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