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Concurrent Education Session

The Future of the Public Realm

MON-B03: Heat, Flood, Fire, Drought: Integrated Regional Landscape Resilience Strategy for Los Angeles

Monday, October 13, 2025
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Los Angeles faces increasing climate risks—flood, drought, fire, and urban heat. This panel explores landscape-based integration of data, design, and technology to strengthen resilience. We will articulate an interdisciplinary collaboration, grounded in a watershed-based adaptation lens, that can create a more resilient and equitable future and inform planning and design.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn how watershed-based planning can integrate floodplain restoration, urban heat mitigation, wildfire preparedness, and drought with equity-centered strategies.
  • Explore how AI, technology, and data visualization enhance public engagement and decision-making in climate/disaster resilience when used by landscape architects and public agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Understand how landscape-based design solutions can reduce climate change risks, including flooding, forest management, slope stabilization, and post-disaster open space planning.
  • Identify strategies to embed equity and environmental justice into climate adaptation and emergency response planning.