center for land use interpretation
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CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION
american land museum
The CLUI is a non-profit research organization dedicated to
understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the Earth’s surface.
It exists primarily to catalogue industrial ruins and the hidden places that nonetheless greatly impact our daily lives. The CLUI does not seek to bring nature closer, but to explore human interventions in natural landscape.
5 Permanent Sites for research and exhibitions:• Culver City (HQ)• a satellite office in the graying factory town of Troy, New York on the
Hudson River• Abandoned Air-Force base on the salts flats of Wendover, Nevada• An office housed in an old junk yard in the industrial fringes of
Houston• Desert Research Station in the Mojave
CLUI created and maintains the LAND USE DATABASE that documents the man-made environment.
Consists of sites across the United States ranging from the
mundane (tunnels, bridges) to the notorious
(Alcatraz, Three Mile Island) to the bizarre (the Amazing Maize Maze, the Big Muskie Coal Scoop Bucket).
Trojan nuclear plant
Woodstock mystery hole
the American Land Museum is a network of landscape exhibition sites being developed across the United States
The primary “exhibit” at each location is the immediate landscape of
the location itself. Collectively the individual exhibit sites comprise the American Land Museum. The museum creates a dynamic contemporary portrait of the nation, a portrait composed of the national landscape itself.
Duaphin Island
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Bombing test site
The Army Corps of Engineers' Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model