Boston is moving ahead with plans to address rising sea levels, using designs by New York firm SCAPE.
The Resilient Boston Harbor landscape and urbanism initiative has appointed SCAPE to help improve the city's coastal defences in preparation for the effects of climate change.
Alongside consulting firm Arcadis and Massachusetts firm Nitsch Engineering, the landscape architecture and urban design studio with work with the City of Boston to deliver.
SCAPE has created visuals for its Resilient Boston Harbor plan, featuring lime green zones representing elevated landscapes
The goal of the Resilient Boston Harbor project is "to guide open space investments toward more resilient and accessible communities", according to a statement from SCAPE. It will increase access to Boston's 47-mile shoreline and waterfront, while better protecting the area from flooding.
A selection of at-risk buildings will be raised and flood-adapted, while a series of elevated landscapes, pathways and protective parks will be constructed along the low-lying shore.
For East Boston, marshlands at Belle Isle will be restored to buffer the shoreline, with other new connections and access points marked by pink dashes
Diagrams from SCAPE depict these features in lime green, with connections to existing infrastructure marked in pink.
"This series of drawings reveal how ongoing neighbourhood planning efforts could be stitched together with a new layer of parks, boulevards and recreational spaces t...