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Join us for a waterfront cruise highlighting innovative planning and projects that address resilience, climate change, and complex urban social issues. You'll view parks, living shorelines, nature-based solutions, and other installations along the inner harbor that offer solutions to sea-level rise and flooding as well as equitable access to harbor resources. Plus, design professionals and civic leaders will discuss technical, regulatory, and other considerations.
The tour will start and end near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. It will cruise by projects underway in the Downtown, the North End, Charlestown, East Boston, the Harbor Islands, South Boston, and the Seaport.
Learning Objectives
- Explore nature-based solutions as design approaches to coastal adaptation and resilience.
- Consider the co-benefits of nature-based coastal resilience that improve the health, safety, and welfare of residents and visitors—and how these co-benefits can be defined and prioritized through an equitable engagement process.
- Discuss how planning efforts and projects can be coordinated and connected across ownership boundaries to create a comprehensive set of layered protection and safety measures for urban districts under threat from chronic flooding.
- Examine how coastal resilience site-design strategies can enhance architectural expression while also offering ecological benefits and advancing environmental performance goals beyond the building footprint.