Tour of Sea Level Rise in East Boston

How will sea-level rise affect the redevelopment of our urban coasts? Rather than retreat from the waterfront, innovative, adaptive planning and design solutions can allow us to continue to live, work and play on active waterfront land. East Boston, the densely populated peninsula of mostly built land dominated by Logan International Airport and shaped by 200 years as an active port, will be the setting for this workshop.

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Participants will visit old marine facilities transformed into parks and proposed development sites, where we will discuss mitigation options including flood-resistant building design, hard-engineered barriers, landscape flood mitigation, and land use planning and policy tools.

Expert tour leaders will provide insight into the challenges of planning for sea-level rise from the perspectives of environmental science, urban planning and design, and environmental justice.

This tour was originally developed as a mobile workshop for the April 2011 American Planning Association conference in Boston by Neenah Estrella-Luna, Kim Foltz, Amanda Stout, Chris Watson, and Torrey Wolff. The team is excited to share this tour again, thanks to the financial support of Common Boston, a volunteer committee of the Boston Society of Architects, with the mission of bringing together designers and the public for dialogue that inspires a more sustainable, equitable and creative urban environment.

Saturday, September 24, 2011 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Meet at NOAH (Neighborhood of Affordable Housing) offices at 143 Border Street, East Boston at 1:00 p.m. (a short walk from the Maverick Blue Line T station).

Participants should dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes, as we’ll travel by foot and school bus and spend time on Constitution Beach.

The tour will end at 4:00 p.m. at Piers Park (also near Maverick). Contact Torrey with questions: victoria.wolff@gmail.com