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Paradise in Process

May 14, 2019

Jessy Yang Charles Waldheim, Faculty Advisor Aziz Barbar, Faculty Advisor This proposal uses the prospect of sea level rise as an opportunity to reshape the collective image of Miami Beach. It imagines a new “living seawall” for the city that incorporates hydrological channels, elevated buildings, and a natural mangrove buffer along Biscayne Bay. Learn more here.

An initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Design that presents alternative futures and convenes conversations about how we live, where we live. Supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and generous donors to the American Cities Fund. Future of the American City is curated by the Office for Urbanization, with production by Aziz Barbar, Olani Ewunnet, Charlie Gillard, Jeffery S. Nesbit, and Mercedes Peralta. Subscribe here.

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