Concurrent Education Session

TUE-C04: Small Sites + Big Impact—Building a Network of Climate Action

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

3:45pm – 5:00pm ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 147AB

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Kaki Martin, FASLA, PLA (she/her/hers)

Principal
Klopfer Martin Design Group
boston, Massachusetts

Speaker(s)

Matthew Cunningham, ASLA, PLA (he/him/his)

Founding Principal + Creative Director and Lecturer
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC and Harvard Graduate School of Design
Stoneham, Massachusetts
Kate England, GIP, ENV SP (she/her/hers)

Director, Office of Green Infrastructure
City of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Building a resilient future is our shared responsibility, regardless of our seat at the table. This session shares case studies from government, private, and residential practices and will demonstrate how the collective transformation at the site scale can be as powerful as our big parks. Incremental action leads to tremendous impact.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how resiliency planning can be applied to small sites across project typologies and across construction price points.
Discuss techniques for building resiliency fluency with clients who may not hold resiliency as a top priority or who need to manage resiliency goals with competing expectations.
Critically reflect on the barriers to implementing big plans and how site design can still meet intent and create climate action.
Explore small-site impacts on urban heat island, biodiversity, stormwater and storm surge management, watershed management, and environmental justice.