{"id":36119,"date":"2022-04-12T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-swa-2019.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=idea&p=36119"},"modified":"2023-07-10T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:47:18","slug":"infrastructure-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"idea","link":"https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/idea\/infrastructure-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1550012464337{padding-top: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”36155″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]This in-progress topical project focuses on four transportation infrastructures as keystones for urban design.\u00a0 The project aggregates built port, river, rail, and road infrastructure reuse and co-use projects in order to understand the outsized social, environmental, and economic impacts that these linear systems have had relative to their acreage. \u00a0We are in a moment when densification and urban livability is important for reduced energy use, yet public funding for urban amenities like parks and alternative transportation in the U.S. is paltry. \u00a0A review of 400 international projects with varied funding mechanisms and partnerships demonstrate creative uses for urban land that leverage co-benefits like climate change adaptation, carbon mitigation, strengthening community bonds, increased health outcomes, no-carbon transportation, urban cooling, low-impact stormwater management, and community development by pairing natural and nature-based solutions (NNBS) with transportation corridors.\u00a0 In addition, the project distills the five main strategies employed, provides a methodology for identifying infrastructural assets and opportunities for any city, relates the impacts of historical public space networks 100 years later, and documents lessons learned about greening, gentrification, displacement, and community process. \u00a0The project extends SWA\u2019s work on infrastructure.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text el_class=”swa_column_header”]<\/p>\n

RESEARCH TEAM<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Anya Domlesky<\/a>, Emily Schlickman, and Jonah Susskind, XL research and innovation Lab at SWA
\nGerdo Aquino<\/a>, Ying-yu Hung<\/a>, Esther (Xuezhen) Xie, Haoyu Zhao, Hillary DeWildt, Kapp Singer, Amanda Ton, Michael Siu, and Yaxin Cao, SWA
\nElvis Wong, SWA, XL Lab
\nLouisa Kennett
\nMaria Ulloa
\nSlide Kelly, Slide Kelly Cartographic, LLC
\nXinlei Gu
\nSydnie (Xinyi) Zhang[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

THANKS TO<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Catherine Nagel, City Parks Alliance
\nAnne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership
\nAsima Jansveld, The High Line Network
\nMarie Law Adams and Dan Adams, Landing Studio
\nYuxiang Luo, James Lima JLP+D
\nBen Helphand, Friends of Bloomingdale Trail
\nMeghan Injaychock, Atlanta Beltline, Inc
\nLynnette Reid, Atlanta Beltline, Inc
\nPhilip Hiatt Haigh, Circuit Trail Conservancy
\nMichelle Woods, City of Chicago
\nMarc Boutin, MBAC
\nRahid Cornejo, Bergen Arches Preservation Coalition
\nTerry Savage, formerly National Park Service
\nRebecca Popowsky, OLIN
\nAdam Novack, Waterfront Toronto
\nVince Tam, HNTB
\nBSA Space
\nDanika Cooper, University of California, Berkeley
\nMichele Richmond, Weber Thompson
\nCali Pfaff, Design Workshop
\nTom Balsley, SWA\/Balsley
\nDrew Watkins, Natalia Beard, Joe Runco, Chuck McDaniel, Scott McCready, Shuyi Chang, Xiao Zheng, Hui-Li Lee, Ren\u00e9 Bihan, Peiwen Yu, Daniel Cunningham, Kerri da Silva, Masako Ikegami, Kristen Taylor, Jeremy Klemic, Todd Strawn, SWA[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

FEATURED<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]AIA\/ACSA Intersections Research Conference
\n\u201cInfrastructure Corridors: Leveraging Linear Systems for Public Life\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

National Planning Conference
\n“Growing Your City Open Space First”<\/p>\n

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Spring Meeting
\n“Infrastructure Adaptation: Opportunity Space for Multi-benefit Public Use”<\/p>\n

Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning<\/p>\n

City Parks Alliance Greater Greener Conference. Park Lab
\n\u201cOpportunity Time: Windows for Funding Public Space Creation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

High Line Network Symposium: Forward Spaces
\n“Infrastructure Investment & Social Inequity”<\/a><\/p>\n

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
\n“Post-industrial to Post-infrastructural: Networks Over Parcels for Impactful Urban Change”<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Department of Architecture<\/p>\n

SWA’s 10 Point Approach to Infrastructure<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

FINDINGS<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Forthcoming[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

RELATED PROJECTS<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Middleweights: Metros at the Vanguard of American Urbanism<\/a>
\nInfrastructure Research Initiative<\/a>
\nHunter’s Point South Waterfront Park<\/a>
\nGantry Plaza State Park<\/a>
\nShekou Promenade<\/a>
\nShenzhen Bay Coastline Park<\/a>
\nShekou Mountain Park
\nGolden Gate National Recreation Area<\/a> (GGNRA)
\nTianjin Eco-City<\/a>
\nTianjin Lingang
\nKobe Waterfront Arena
\nNelson Mandela Park Master Plan<\/a>
\nBayou Greenways<\/a>
\nBuffalo Bayou Park<\/a>
\nBuffalo Bayou Smith to Travis Streets Trail Segment<\/a>
\nRosemont Pedestrian Bridges and Trails<\/a>
\nMilton Street Park<\/a>
\nChangsha Baxizhou Island<\/a>
\nHarvey Milk Plaza<\/a>
\nKaty Trail<\/a>
\nSKY Highline Plaza
\nSava Promenada at the Belgrade Waterfront<\/a>
\nRicardo Lara Linear Park<\/a>
\nSuzhou Center<\/a> Bridges
\nSouthern Gateway Public Green<\/a>
\nPortsmouth Square<\/a>
\nHouston’s Gateway Art Bridges<\/a>
\nEl Paso Pedestrian Pathways
\nSan Jacinto Plaza<\/a><\/p>\n

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