Coastal cities and their communities benefit greatly from their proximity to these ecosystems, due to connections to food, employment, transportation, recreation, and energy. Fifty percent of the world’s population lives in coastal regions, most of which were initially developed due to their advantageous connection to water borne transportation systems and rich coastal ecologies. Increased urbanization, climate change, coastal erosion, and sea level rise require architects, planners, and engineers to reenvision coastal cities. The studio test case for this question is the Long Island Sound and the waterfront of New Rochelle along its most urbanized edge. The “Edge City” preoccupation has now shifted from exurb to water edges, with the rising seas and climate extremes pointing the way toward acute awareness of both hazards and potential of this new urban “frontier.” The outcome is a new realization that we must now treat our urban waterfronts differently than in the past, but the question is “How?”. For the past four decades, the normative urban expansion in the region has been landward, and planning preoccupations have typically been focused on the so-called “edge-city” phenomenon (as described by Joel Garreau): that is, the continued sprawl into the suburbs and exurbs. This studio engages the New York City region and the ecological considerations related to urban development in relationship to the water’s edge.
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