Credit: ASLA 2016 Professional General Design Honor Award. Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park. Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl / Lim Shiang Han.
 
Resiliency is a word that has become fixed in the lexicon of landscape architecture, and for good reason. Resiliency means, among other things, protecting the 80 percent of the world’s population living near a coast from the onslaught of natural disasters and climate change?and there are rising hazards inland, too. It also brings increasing equity to the valuable roles of landscape architects. There’s a ton of information out there on how communities can become more resilient. To help navigate it, ASLA recently released Resilient Design, a web guide that documents the importance of focusing on resiliency (for the human and nonhuman worlds) and offers case studies organized into six general areas to show adaptations that try to anticipate the worst of circumstances. The guide, which was reviewed by several professionals deeply involved in resiliency issues, emphasizes layered defenses rather than “heavy-handed infrastructure projects.”
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