BY KEVAN WILLIAMS

In North Miami, flooding and sea-level rise have spurred talk of relocation, as well as cries of ?climate gentrification.?
From the August 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Before the city was built, the land around Miami consisted of a low band of limestone, the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, dissected by lower sloughs, marshy freshwater streams that eventually were filled in and developed. The Arch Creek neighborhood of North Miami is one such area. ?Fast forward, [and] they?re what FEMA calls repetitive loss properties,? says Walter Meyer, a founding principal of Brooklyn-based Local Office Landscape Architecture, of the homes built in these vulnerable, low-lying areas.
After multiple claims, the homes are no longer eligible for the National Flood Insurance Program. Meyer was one of nine urban planning experts convened by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in May 2016 for a weeklong advisory panel, chaired by David Stebbins of the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation in Buffalo, New York. Also on the panel were James Lima, of New York City-based James Lima Planning + Development, and Manuel Ochoa, a senior analyst and program director at Enterprise Community Partners, among others. ULI hosts several of these panels each year, bringing its members to communities around the country to help them develop solutions to their planning challenges. The Arch Creek project is one of several new studies that focus specifically on climate resilience.
Among the...