START WITH ASSESSING THE RISK TO YOUR OWN PROPERTY/COMMUNITY
In Miami, Landscape Architect Aida Curtis, principal of Curtis+Rogers Design Studio, has been immersed in resilient design, decades before the city became synonymous with ground zero for climate disaster —
both the slow variety from sea level rise and the immediate knockout punch from the killer winds and storm surge of increasingly frequent hurricanes.
She stresses that mitigation can be
beautiful and practical.
After Hurricane Irma, a federally funded study proposed a 10- to 30-foot-high floodwall that would run along the Miami’s picturesque bayfront spanning from downtown Miami, south across the Miami River (with floodgates) and to the Manhattan-like Brickell Area.
Curtis’ firm was hired to illustrate alternatives
to what most saw as a hideous wall.
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