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Title: HIGHER GROUND: Leveraging Baltimore’s Topography to Increase Social and Climate Resiliency
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Higher Ground is a data-driven design project that addresses flooding, increased resiliency to climate change, and economic redevelopment to provide social and racial integration in Baltimore, Maryland, a highly segregated American city. Our group has been studying the potential flooding risks that Baltimore City faces from storm surge and increased rain events. These findings allow us to envision a strategic plan that accommodates anticipated increased water volume through landscape intervention with a method for re-centring work hubs and communities on higher ground that is the current site of swaths of decaying, nearly abandoned factories, industrial spaces, apartment buildings, and homes (fig. 8). By building resiliency to climate change, our plan will simultaneously revitalise these decaying areas with mixed use, mixed income, accessible, desirable, resilient neighbourhoods, rediscovering the city whose work centres and neighbourhoods have been shifting away from the commercial centre and accessible public transportation for decades.
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Authors: O'Meara, Katie
Publisher: ELIA: Resilience and the City
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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization, Race and Ethnicity
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