FS-004 - Reinventing the River: Central and North Delaware Waterfronts

Friday, October 19

7:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Location: 112-B

6 PDH, LA CES/HSW, FL, NY/HSW

Field Session Leader(s)

Michael Miller, ASLA

Associate
OLIN

Field Session Co-Leader(s)

Jim Fries, ASLA

Project Manager
Riverfront North Partnership

Field Session Presenter(s)

Jayne Spector, ASLA, LEED AP

Associate
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
Kim Cooper

Senior Associate
James Corner Field Operations
JF

Joe Forkin

Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
Julie Bush, ASLA

Principal
Ground Reconsidered
TF

Tom Fein

NV5
Tracey Cohen, ASLA

Technical Director
AKRF
Michael Cheney

Managing Director of Urban Design
Groundswell Design Group
Lucinda Sanders, FASLA

CEO and Partner
OLIN
Annie Phaosawasdi

Senior Associate
Hargreaves Associates
Karen Thompson, AICP

Director of Planning
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation
Justin Park, ASLA

Landscape Architect
Biohabitats
AP

Anchalee Phaosawasdi, Phaosawasdi

Industrial uses and infrastructure have long separated Philadelphia’s residents from the Delaware riverfront. On a walk of this emerging landscape, we’ll visit pop-ups and permanent landscapes with their designers, talk strategy with the agencies overseeing riverfront development, and see sites poised to unlock the river’s future.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the large-scale planning of landscape as a framework for investment, and achieving a balance between public infrastructure and private development.
Discuss the challenges and opportunities designers face when working across temporalities (strategy, scale, time).
Analyze the evolution of a master plan through implementation and the influence of multiple design voices and visions.
Learn challenges and successes of shoreline restoration using living shoreline technology, including discussion of which plant species and construction methods for erosion control and resiliency have withstood recent storm/tide events.