For this assignment we had to go out and define Narrative Social Landscape, pretty much how humans have influenced the landscape in some way. I was going home to Syracuse, NY for the weekend so I decided to shoot Project Destiny USA, the major building addition to the Carousel Mall. This project will make Carousel the 2nd largest mall in the United States, as well as one of the greenest malls. It was proposed around 2000, but due to disagreements between the the project builders and the city of Syracuse, construction was delayed until 2007. Construction began and the first phase of building began. Now, in 2010, 400 million dollars invested, the construction has been put on hold again, and the building that had begun was finished enough so the weather couldn't destroy what was already started. I had originally planned to document the construction that was going on, since it was a major construction site when I had left for school this fall, but going back and finding the construction put on hold changed my focus. I started to look around and see the effects of Carousel and the stopped construction had on the surrounding areas of the city. There are advertisements all over the place promoting Destiny, while if you look right next to the mall and its parking lots there are "abandoned" construction vehicles and sites, as well as the one time train that used to bring people to the mall. The mall also sits on the edge of Onondaga Lake (to be incorporated into Destiny), and if you visit any of the parks around the lake you look out and see the natural beauty of Syracuse, as well as the buildings and lights and smoke of the city and Carousel...
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