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Track 3/Volet 3

CS3.4: Urban resilience

Saturday, November 16, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
CE: 1.5

General Admission/Adminsion générale Simultaneous Interpretation Available/Interprétation simultanée disponible AIA CES Approved

This session has qualified for 1.5 LU|HSW Credits

Urban resilience brings to mind the macro scale of planning and interventions to ensure preparedness. The goal is to apply an informed, inclusive, integrated, and iterative decision-making processes to enhance the health and wellbeing of people living and working in urban environments, ensure the resiliency of social and financial systems, and protect built and natural systems that provide critical services. The challenge is that this comprehensive framework encompasses wide ranging physical resources: vertical structures, horizontal infrastructure, hardscaping, landscaping, etc. It involves stakeholders at all levels of government and civil society: residential, commercial, institutional, and governmental sectors ranging from individual homeowners to large real estate companies, civic institutions, and governmental authorities. A complexity further exacerbated in historic districts by the layers of events, conflicts and economic disparities that have shaped tangible and intangible assets.

This session will provide insights into these various facets, through four presentations that range in scale from the macro-framework of the approach implemented at the Parliamentary Precinct, to the evolution of local zoning policies and their unintended consequences on large developments in Toronto, the challenges of climate change, economic transformation, and layered historical significance of the Old Port of Montreal, and finally the stories that shape local communities and their decision-makers in post-disaster Montpellier, VT. Topics will include discussion of key motivators, the inherent tensions in addressing both heritage and non-designated areas, the unintended consequences of zoning requirements prioritizing large scale demolition and small scale retention, the potential for bioremediation and mycoremediation for global warming mitigation in cultural landscapes, and an analysis of key factors influencing post-disaster recovery community decisions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the multisectoral nature of urban resiliency planning at the intersection of urban development, disaster risk reduction/risk management and climate change adaptation.
  • Describe the interactions between urban vertical and horizontal infratsructure, governance networks, and socio-economic dynamics that shape resilience planning.
  • Identify the most appropriate level of intervention to reach stated goals: national, regional, local, community, household.
  • Compare the potential and limitations of bioremediation and mycoremediation inetrventions to mitigate the impact of global warming in historic sites and cultural landscapes.

Presentations:

  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM EST
    (CS3.4) Climate Change Adaptation Planning at the Parliamentary Precinct: Understanding impacts, identifying resilience strategies and enabling action

    Speaker: Emma Meek, B.Eng (she/her/hers) – Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)

    Session Chair: Leila Hamroun-Yazid, AIA, NCARB, GPCP (she/her/hers) – Tetra Tech

  • 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM EST
    (CS3.4) High Carbon Sites – Examining the Impact of Successive Development in Toronto

    Speaker: Mitchell G. May, OAA, CAHP – Giaimo + Associates Architects

    Session Chair: Leila Hamroun-Yazid, AIA, NCARB, GPCP (she/her/hers) – Tetra Tech

  • 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (CS3.4) The Old Port of Montreal, a catalyst for sustainable regeneration.

    Speaker: Fabrice Doutriaux, M.Sc.Arch, T.P. (he/him/his) – Faculty of architecture KU Leuven University

    Speaker: Mark Ramsay Elsworthy – EVOQ

    Session Chair: Leila Hamroun-Yazid, AIA, NCARB, GPCP (she/her/hers) – Tetra Tech

  • 12:00 PM – 12:10 PM EST
    (CS3.4) Bridging Built Environment Data and Community Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction in Montpelier, VT

    Speaker: Lara Maalouf, MArch, MS, MA – Pennsylvania State University

    Session Chair: Leila Hamroun-Yazid, AIA, NCARB, GPCP (she/her/hers) – Tetra Tech