Infrastructure Adaptation

by Anya Domlesky, ASLA

Port of Los Angeles, CA / image: David Lloyd

As some of you know, using practice-based research, I’ve been arguing for a more encompassing umbrella for infrastructure adaptation projects, rather than just being referred to as “a High Line copy,” deck park, waterfront, greenway, or other term. I think landscape architects and architects have built a corpus now where we can put it forward compellingly as a new project type. My ultimate goal is for the name and concept to have the same magic currency with non-designers that “green infrastructure” currently does.

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