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November 7, 2019
Adria Boynton Rosetta Elkin, Faculty Advisor What if Miami Beach used salt-tolerant grasses to improve the city’s capacity for water absorption? Taking cues from the ecology of the Everglades, this project imagines a new approach to alleviate flooding. 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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