SUN-C09: Threading Coastal Resilience in a Dense Urban Environment: Competition to Construction

Sunday, October 12, 2025

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Speaker(s)

Grace K. Tang

Program Director
NYC Parks
New York, New York
Jordan H. Salinger

Deputy Director, Adaptation Strategies
Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
Manhattan, New York
Lauren Micir, ASLA, PLA

AECOM

How do we integrate coastal resilience and flood defenses into one of the densest waterfront neighborhoods in New York City, while enhancing parks and open spaces? This panel discusses how government and design professionals are working together to implement an ambitious set of landscape infrastructure projects to address climate change.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand how New York City is tackling coastal resilience in a densely populated urban neighborhood.
Explore strategies for bringing local and broader communities along in complex plans, including educating the public about climate science, coastal resilience engineering principles, and typologies of flood defense systems.
Examine a variety of site-specific design solutions tailored to unique site constraints ranging from tight urban spaces to programmatically dense parks to legacy/historic landscapes.
Learn about complex construction staging processes, sustainable construction practices, and engineering innovations employed for this set of projects.