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DESIGNING FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION

April 5, 2024

Pippa Brashear and Laura Marett
SCAPE

SCAPE is a landscape architecture and urban design practice that designs and advocates for ecologically restorative and socially engaged landscapes, urban environments, and natural infrastructure of the future. Pippa Brashear is a Resilience Principal and Partner within the firm, and Laura Marett is the Director of Landscape Planning. Both are registered as Landscape Architects. Their work focuses on resilience planning and design for climate adaptation with an ecological and people-driven approach in coastal and urban landscapes.

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GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION

September 23, 2023

Joan Fitzgerald,
Northeastern University

Dr. Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy. She focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation. Professor Fitzgerald has made foundational contributions to the field, calling for integrated and aggressive public action to address climate change through her published works, as well as her ongoing leadership at the Dukakis Center conducting an assessment for the Boston Foundation’s Boston Climate Progress Report.

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FINANCING CLIMATE ADAPTATION


May 10, 2023

Jesse M. Keenan,
Tulane University

Jesse M. Keenan is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate within the faculty of the School of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Keenan’s teaching and research is centered on how people prepare for and respond to climate impacts in the built environment, including aspects of design, planning, management, policy and finance.

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MODELING HURRICANE IMPACT


April 5, 2024

Kerry Emanuel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Kerry Emanuel is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Emanuel has made foundational contributions to the science of tropical cyclones, climate, and links between them, and has been a prominent voice in public debates on climate change, and what we should do about it.

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Cutting the Tall Grass

May 27, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Sharon Cornelissen The forthcoming book Cutting the Tall Grass aims to show how decades of neighborhood decline in Brightmoor, Detroit shaped racialized losses and opportunities, hardship and privilege, and trauma and coping, as the devastated neighborhood faces early gentrification. Learn more here.
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Detroit's Got Lots

April 29, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Ann Salerno Daniel D'Oca, Faculty Advisor Warrendale—like many of Detroit’s neighborhoods—has a lot of vacant lots. For the community, this state of vacancy can be demoralizing. This project aims to empower and give agency to local teenagers by leveraging those vacant spaces to create a sense of ownership of the neighborhood. Learn more here.
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Growing-Up Warrendale

April 1, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Ana Cristina Garcia Daniel D'Oca, Faculty Advisor The neighborhood of Warrendale in Detroit is transforming into a receiving community for an arriving Arab refugee and immigrant community. This project focuses on the potential of the neighborhood to mediate trauma for children, creating places of physical and emotional safety. Learn more here.
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Street Dreams

March 4, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Natasha Hicks Simone Hodgson Daniel D'Oca, Faculty Advisor This project explores what inclusive commercial corridor revitalization might mean and look like for both the existing predominantly Black community and the incoming immigrant and refugee community in Warrendale, Detroit. Learn more here.
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Forward from Woodward

February 4, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Jonah Susskind This thesis project addresses forest management in the context of Detroit and so-called shrinking cities. It positions urban canopy as a driver for urban development. Learn more here.
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Freakish Grounds

December 17, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Karissa Campos, Hannah Chako Zoë Holland, Chris Reed, Faculty Advisor This proposed park is a place where Los Angeles abandons the bucolic aspirations of the past, embraces the freakish reality of the present, and prepares for the urban ecology of the future. Learn more here.
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Dynasty

November 19, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Yaxuan Liu Daniel D'Oca, Faculty Advisor The revival of downtown Los Angeles has exacerbated Chinatown’s affordability problem. This project explores and dramatizes the negotiations between the neighborhood's developers, families, artists, young professionals, and other stakeholders through an experimental board game.
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Change the Street, Transform the City

October 22, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Yuzhou ‘Andrew’ Peng Solomon Green-Eames Andres Sevtsuk, Faculty Advisor The existing model of Transit Oriented Development in Los Angeles simply places high density housing in proximity to new transit stations. This project proposes building targeted street improvements in existing commercial centers to enable local access to amenities and increase retail density.
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Carbon Park

April 23, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Augustinas Indrasius Peteris Lazovskis Thomas Schaperkotter This project reimagines how real estate investment may fuel social benefit and ecological sustainability by connecting private investment with public space to seek balance for investors, the downtown Los Angeles community, and California's growing carbon economy.
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Four Ecologies 2.0

February 27, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Suthata Jiranuntarat Sonny Meng Qi Xu Chris Reed, Faculty Advisor This project reimagines Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, proposing a new language of movement and civic life for Los Angeles. It confronts the city’s aging and underutilized infrastructure and imagines multi-functional, productive, and performative infrastructures and urban realms.
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Offcut

February 6, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Morgan Starkey Alexandru Vilcu Jenny Wu, Faculty Advisor Dwayne Oyler, Faculty Advisor This project interrogates the role of architectural detail, examining how these small elements may generate of larger architectural spaces and logics. It poses questions about leveraging the function, misbehavior, and perversion of ornament in architecture.
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Collins Reservoir

December 12, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Ocean Court

November 21, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Root

November 7, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Flamingo Waterpark

October 24, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Urban Stitch

October 10, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Ephemeral Urbanism

October 3, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Food Sociability

June 27, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Hydrological Urbanization

June 20, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Biscayne Baywalk

June 20, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Ocean Courtyards

June 20, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Higher Lanes and Public Planes

June 13, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Food System Resilience

June 6, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Transit-Oriented Hyperdensity

May 30, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Democratizing Tech

May 23, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Climate 2050 Justice Divestment

May 23, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Community Equity Fund

May 16, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Types in the Park

May 16, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Community Equity Fund

May 16, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Protecting Potable Water

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Building Resilience

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Community Solar

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Living Landforms

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Biscayne Barnacles

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Paradise in Process

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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Overtown Commons Toolkit

May 14, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM

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