Landscape and Engineering Design Studio: Riverine

Catalog description

This studio explores adaptive landscape design at the city-river interface, focusing on the impacts of climate change. Students will examine the dynamic relationship between rivers and urban systems, particularly in areas experiencing novel flooding patterns. This design studio also focuses on other various ways that climate change is affecting urban rivers, including increased flooding, droughts, and habitat loss, and how these changes influence the urban build environment. Using a small to mid-sized city's riverine landscape as a project location, students will develop designs that emphasize negotiation and adaptation with natural systems rather than control. Through critical reading, discussions, field observations, and research, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of urban-river interactions and learn to propose solutions for socio-cultural challenges along urbanized rivers. This course was previously offered as LAND 6022 : Landscape and Engineering Design Studio: Riverine.