Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency and Redesign

Harvard GSD

With an emphasis on ecological principles and their application to design and planning, this course uses restoration as the basis for design and introduces the potential of leveraging capitalism to incentivize environmental restoration. We will explore new approaches to design and infrastructure at local and regional scales including water management, hardened coastlines, sediment and toxics management, marsh and wetland restoration, alternative renewable energy development, reclaimed water,…