Forest as Urban Infrastructure
- HF-ID: HF2017-23
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Schwartz, M., Jatsch, M.
- Associated Person: Foster, D.R.
- Date: Spring 2017
- Location: Massachusetts
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- spiral bound draft version. 11" x 16".
- Keywords: climate change, urban
- Abstract:
- A collection of student research done for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design spring 2017 course, SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine for Combating Global Warming
- Global warming is the biggest challenge that the human race faces today. Our studio will focus on what a city can do to lower global temperature and balance its own carbon / heat-load footprint. How can investment in natural and artificial systems be integrated into our urban environments so to provide the benefits we need to survive a warming earth?
- This studio will be working with the Harvard Forest that has projected four plausible but divergent scenarios in terms of land use as it pertains to development, forestation, agricultural use amongst other variables. These studies simulate change within the entire 20,300 km2 of Massachusetts, however, urban areas are not included, thereby creating “Black Holes”, that ideally, should be included to create a holistic picture and further support the studies produced by the Harvard Forest.
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