Overview

Transportation infrastructure is typically big, central, connective, dramatic, and public. Because of these attributes, infrastructure adaptation projects can serve to improve carbon outcomes with urban design while catalysing positive economic change. By transforming transportation corridors through adaptive reuse, retrofitting, or right sizing, cities can provide low carbon mobility, densify urban form, and attract residents who value livability--in addition to garnering the traditional benefits of open space like community building, improved mental and physical health, biodiversity, and climate adaptation. This book brings together port, river, rail, and road infrastructure adaptation interventions into a typology, highlighting strategies, benefits, elements, and processes in common. Each of the 60 built project examples, by a range of international landscape architects, urban designers, and architects, demonstrate different ways engineered systems evolve from monofunctional megastructures to multi-functional platforms designed to support living systems. This project continues practice-based commitments to large-scale landscapes, anticipating near future conditions in the built environment, analyzing design performance, and addressing emerging complexities and unprecedented challenges.

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Anya Domlesky is an urban designer and landscape architect, currently the Director of Research at SWA Group. She founded and runs XL Lab, an innovation lab undertaking practice-based research on three drivers of change in the built environment: climate change, emerging technologies, and processes of urbanisation.  

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