Re-Edge City _ Miami 2.0
Miami, USA
; A Prosthetic Urbanism in the Age of Sea Level Rise
Studio Hani Rashid Academic Project - ‘Fall 2017/18’
Individual Work
Pre-Thesis Project
Re-Edge City ; A Prosthetic Urbanism in the age of sea level rise
Over the past several years there has been significant discourse across a broad spectrum of stakeholders addressing the sig- nificance of climate change and the associated risks relative to human inhabitation especially in dense population centers. Sea level rise, flooding and storms will impact our coastline cities in unfathomable ways. We will see dramatic changes taking place over the next half century as vast populations shift from coast cities inland or elsewhere.
Their once advantageous location on the “edge” between land and sea that provides infrastructure, trade routes, natural re- sources and recreational values is turning more and more in to an uncalculable threat. Due to this shift the relationship between the cities and their connection to the water have to be reinvented.
At the very same time Re_Edge Cities, like all large urban areas, are faced with the pressures of rapid urbanization and have to ab- sorb an ever growing influx of population over the next decades.Re_Edge Cities have unique yet intertwined histories and identi- ties being linked and interdependent urban entities with diverse but evolving demographics and economies that provide a back- drop for speculative exploration.
How can cities face these realities through a speculative inves- tigation of new architectural prototypes based on a resilient ap- proach to rising sea levels and urban growth, based on a coupling of new types of technologies with new programs?
Over the past several years there has been significant discourse across a broad spectrum of stakeholders addressing the sig- nificance of climate change and the associated risks relative to human inhabitation especially in dense population centers. Sea level rise, flooding and storms will impact our coastline cities in unfathomable ways. We will see dramatic changes taking place over the next half century as vast populations shift from coast cities inland or elsewhere.
Their once advantageous location on the “edge” between land and sea that provides infrastructure, trade routes, natural re- sources and recreational values is turning more and more in to an uncalculable threat. Due to this shift the relationship between the cities and their connection to the water have to be reinvented.
At the very same time Re_Edge Cities, like all large urban areas, are faced with the pressures of rapid urbanization and have to ab- sorb an ever growing influx of population over the next decades.Re_Edge Cities have unique yet intertwined histories and identi- ties being linked and interdependent urban entities with diverse but evolving demographics and economies that provide a back- drop for speculative exploration.
How can cities face these realities through a speculative inves- tigation of new architectural prototypes based on a resilient ap- proach to rising sea levels and urban growth, based on a coupling of new types of technologies with new programs?
