In this E&LP video presentation, “Northwest Resiliency Park: Urban Planning for Physical and Social Resiliency,” experts representing landscape architecture, civil engineering, and city planning engage in a moderated panel discussion featuring graphics and videos to illuminate the prescient, innovative planning process for Hoboken’s Northwest Resiliency Park (NWRP). Ed Confair, PE, PLA, E&LP Senior Program Manager of Resiliency, Megan Schmidt, E&LP Project Engineer & Documentarian, Jennifer Gonzalez, AICP, PP, CFM, City of Hoboken Director of Environmental Services, and Richard Roark, ASLA, LEED AP/SITES AP, Partner with OLIN, provide insight into the city’s strategic land use policy, the park’s collaborative design process, effective community engagement principles, and the synergetic dynamics that create physical and social resiliency. In the current context of a global pandemic and the impacts of climate change, these lessons learned are critical for effective resiliency planning.
- You will learn to envision and implement strategic city planning policies that support largescale regional planning including Rebuild by Design and NHSA Long Term Control Plan as well as sustainable development, community and infrastructure investment, and climate adaptation.
- Learn how to evaluate resiliency based upon the physical determinants, flooding, environmental, transportation, etc., and social determinants, refuge and community development, of planning in an urban built environment through effective community engagement.
- Learn how to analyze types of infrastructure on how they effectively integrate with amenities and programmatic use.
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