Landscape + Planning + Urbanism

Workshop

WE34 - Transforming Boston Harbor: Resilience, Equity & Open Space

Speaker(s)

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  Amy Whitesides, ASLA

  Studio Director
  Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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  Dalia Munenzon

  Boston Resilience Associate
  One Architecture & Urbanism
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  Julie Eaton, PE

  Lead Resiliency Engineer
  Weston & Sampson
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  Alice Brown, AICP

  Director of Planning
  Boston Harbor Now

Boston Harbor is poised for a second wave of transformation - recent decades of work and billions in investment have revitalized the harbor from an industrial wasteland posing significant health and safety risks to a celebrated resource for public recreation. These immensely successful initial efforts are now evolving with new priorities, opportunities and challenges. Today, equity and resiliency in the face of increasing population and changing climate conditions are initiating a new set of projects. This panel of designers, engineers, and non-profit agency leaders will discuss their role in ushering in an exciting new era for Boston's Waterfront.

Projects discussed will include; Moakley Park Vision Plan, Harborwalk 2.0, Climate Ready Downtown, Langone and Puopolo Parks and the Peddock’s Island Vision Plan. Emphasis will include evolution from visionary planning to implementable works, funding, leveraging investment in climate resiliency and formation of strategic partnerships, guidelines and early catalytic projects.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the pressures and opportunities currently impacting Boston’s Waterfront and relationship to its harbor
• Learn about the different implementation strategies and challenges to implementation of catalytic projects along the Boston Harbor.
• Understand the role of visionary planning paired with clear engineering, programming and maintenance guidelines
• Learn about the mechanisms and models for creating shared investment, management and operations on multi-jurisdictional lands