Speaker(s): Anya Domlesky, ASLA | Dr. Carlos Cerezo Davila | Emily R. McCoy, ASLA, SITES AP

Urban heat islands, extreme heat events, and climate change are exacerbating high temperatures on urban sites. To design for outdoor thermal comfort increasingly requires an understanding of region, heat generation at different scales, and barriers to shade creation. Join researchers from three firms to explore analyses, mitigation, and adaptation strategies.

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Speaker(s): Lynn Ross, AICP | Alexa Bush, ASLA | Benjamin A. Bryant

We believe that shared civic assets have the power to influence social outcomes. Detroit is one of five cities piloting a new measurement system that tracks the impacts of investments in public space design and programming. Learn about this metrics framework and take home tools to measure your own work.

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Speaker(s): Sam Sikanas, ASLA | Addison Vawters | Emilio Martinez

An interdisciplinary team from the fields of landscape design, planning, and art examines LGBTQ cultural ecologies in New York City to develop Queer Urbanism Design Guidelines. This presentation uses historical case studies to examine the intersections of urban economics, queer theory, and design criticism.

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Speaker(s): Emily Schlickman, ASLA | Thomas Balsley, FASLA | Stella Y. Kim

It’s time to revisit the work of William H. Whyte! This panel will look at the evolution of small urban spaces and human behavior; exploring how new design strategies and emerging technologies can facilitate the success of these spaces as catalysts for sustainable urban living.

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Speaker(s): Maren McBride, ASLA, PLA, Berger Partnership | Michelle Eichinger, MS, MPA, Clemson University
Moderator(s): Thomas Schurch, PhD, ASLA, PLA, Urban Design PPN Co-Chair

Fact: Urban design is fundamentally linked to physical, social, economic and environmental health and well-being. But in what ways? To what extent? And how can landscape architects approach design through the lens of health equity?

Through case studies and ongoing academic research, this webinar will explore the connection between design and public health with a focus on strategies, design interventions and approaches for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the link between health and urban form.
2. List the social, economic and environmental benefits in integrating health in urban design.
3. Identify strategies to collaborate with other disciplines in integrating health in urban design interventions.
4. Identify design interventions that influence health.
5. Explain one or more examples in the field that demonstrates the cross-collaborative nature in integrating public health and landscape architecture design.

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Speaker(s): Faezeh Ashtiani, Assoc. ASLA | Frederick R. Steiner, FASLA, SITES AP | Forster Ndubisi, FASLA

With the recent disasters of Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Harvey, as well as the California Thomas fire, there has never been a greater imperative to plan with nature. What is the role of nature in the city? Speakers will offer diverse perspectives to explore this important topic.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand two concepts: First, the idea of nature IN the city. Second, the concept of an Ecology OF the city. The latter considers cities as biological creations and evolutionary adaptation.
• Learn best practices in integrating the environment into the urban fabric.
• Consider the short and long-term impacts of catastrophic Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy and Harvey and other extreme climate events and recognize the urgent need to plan with nature.
• Understand the ecological concept of disturbance patch dynamics and its implication of city planners. What regulatory regime is appropriate if cities are dynamic organisms in constant flux?

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Speaker(s): Kate Orff, FASLA | Alexis C. Landes, ASLA | Gena Wirth, ASLA | Gerdo Aquino, FASLA

SCAPE reconceives urban landscape design as an activist practice and has driven dynamic processes integrating science, design, engineering, and social life to address the epoch of climate change at multiple scales. The office couples ideas-driven research with pilot projects, experimentation, built works, and publications to influence the conception and agency of landscape architecture.

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn how the firm’s strong agenda and identity carved a pathway for a unique and compelling practice.
• Hear how the firm is organized to leverage the unique insights and strengths of individual talents and operational strategies that engender growth and participation.
• Learn how SCAPE mentors and supports designers at all stages of their careers with an emphasis on women in leadership.
• Learn how the firm’s active participation in nonprofits and community organizations has created a diverse and dynamic creative network that infuses each project with insight and energy.

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Speaker(s): Carol Coletta | Alexa Bush, ASLA | Shawn McCaney, ASLA | Meg Johnson, ASLA

In five U.S. cities, landscape architects are collaborating with civic leaders and local communities to create places that encourage shared experience among people of all backgrounds. Learn about strategies for designing public places that promote unity and diversity from practitioners working on the ground in Akron, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia.

Learning Objectives:

• Find out how practitioners in cities across the United States are designing public places to promote diversity and bridge socioeconomic divides.
• Discover how designing for diversity is changing perceptions of and expectations for public assets in Akron, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia.
• Learn about design techniques and planning strategies being employed to attract a diverse mix of people to public places and generate diverse constituencies for public assets.
• Consider how this ambition may be relevant to projects and initiatives in other cities.

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Speaker(s): Jonathan Ceci, ASLA | Jacqueline Bershad, LEED AP | Christopher Streb, PE

In many cities, the threshold between land and sea is abrupt and impenetrable. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is no exception. A new paradigm is emerging motivated by aquatic conservation and social justice. This session looks at design interventions that are transforming human and ecological interactions across the divide.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn about the key design drivers and factors that contribute to ecological health in sensitive shoreline environments.
• Presenters will share strategies designers can use to collaborate with scientists and other non-designers to frame experiments and develop prototypes that test ideas and collect data.
• Prototyping tests ideas for fine-tuning before scaling-up. Participants will learn how the design process can be structured to allow adaptation of design concepts in response to discovery.
• Placemaking is an underlying goal of all landscape architecture, so participants will learn how ecological visioning plays a constructive role in unlocking the transformative potential of existing sites.

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Speaker(s): Yadan Luo, ASLA | Zixu Qiao, Associate ASLA

Sea level rise has had a significant impact on coastal ecosystems resulting in wetland loss, increased coastal erosion/inundation, and increases in the duration and frequency of flooding from storm surge. The first presentation introduces a collection of adaptive flood attenuation mechanisms (both structural and non-structural) for protecting newly designed communities from flood events and the eventual impacts of sea level rise.

The second presentation examines how the autonomous vehicle will redefine the streetscape in the coming future. For one possibility, street space could shift towards more pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhoods. Driverless cars may use space more efficiently and potentially relinquish some of this space, particularly street parking in downtown areas to public space. For another possibility, these saved spaces might simply be packed with more driverless cars based on increasing ride demands. The critical question becomes how to reassign the authority between the pedestrians and riders on the street.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight on implementable climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
  
• Explore economic, ecological, cultural and social benefits from the practice of green infrastructure
  
• Identify impacts that driverless car will brings to our city
  
• Examine concepts and strategies for implementing infrastructure flexibility and how this will change urban corridor aesthetics and programming

PPN Mentors:

Hunter Beckham, FASLA, Sustainable Design & Development PPN
Eric Gilbey, ASLA, Digital Technology PPN
Emily O’Mahoney, FASLA, Women in Landscape Architecture PPN

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