The Hudson River Valley is a landscape locked in existential crisis—a place of vaunted natural beauty, but one whose postindustrial downslide has pushed scores of small and midsize cities to the brink of an economic abyss. Now, New York architect Meta Brunzema has advanced an outsize idea to turn this land of old traprock quarries and Superfund sites into prime territory for the reinvention of the region's future.
Pictured: Poughkeepsie's Clinton Point Quarry. Image credit: Courtesy CLUI Photo Archive
