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When the AIA Conference last came to Boston, the city was a different place. The highway had just been demolished. City Hall Plaza was still a barren sea of bricks. But today's Downtown is a much more vibrant place, thanks in part to giant green roofs sitting atop major underground infrastructure.
This 1.5-mile tour will take you through Post Office Square, the Rose Kennedy Greenway, City Hall Plaza, and Government Center. Along the way, you'll hear from landscape architects, urban designers, and city officials about design vision, technical details of implementation, and much more. The entire route is fully accessible.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss how innovative green space development can provide opportunities to engage communities, support public events and art installations, and enable an active lifestyle.
- Explore the programmatic, managerial, structural, and design elements that can be used to create sustainable greenspace over parking structures and major transportation corridors.
- Examine ways that urban green spaces can advance environmental performance goals including biodiversity, stormwater management, mitigating urban heat islands, and sequestering carbon.
- Learn about design strategies that offer access and inclusion, inviting physically and culturally diverse audiences.