Landscape Infrastructure for Climate Change

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Investigates the need for new ways to think about landscape architecture and infrastructure as the impact of climate change alters the way cities are designed and managed. Core focus is on responsive design, and implementation of hard and soft physical infrastructures (not policies) to mitigate climate impacts, including: heat, stormwater flooding, watershed management, coastal resilience, decarbonized transportation, and wildfire. Weekly lectures, case studies, and a series of short group design exercises to illustrate and evaluate new types of physical infrastructure projects that consider environmental and human systems needed for urban areas in the era of climate change. These exercises will be done during class in charette format, no prior design experience is required. 15, due to classroom size.