In this article, Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa, who heads the Landscape Urbanism and Resilience practice at the Collaborative, discusses the importance of incorporating art and technology in the plans for transforming the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a “21st century” public space.
The Neponset River Greenway was named one of America’s “Great Places” by the American Planning Association. The Collaborative led an energetic master planning and design process that created the Greenway and today includes a series of waterfront parks, an 8+ mile multi-use trail, restored wildlife areas and wetlands, interpretive exhibits, a major soccer complex, play areas, and courts.
The Collaborative’s landscape architecture team recently completed the construction drawing development for the design and construction of a new 160,000 s.f. microelectronics building on MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory campus. The project is currently out to bid.
The Collaborative provided planning consulting services to the City of Atlanta on behalf of its Department of City Planning for a major update to the West End Livable Centers Initiative (LCI). The Atlanta Regional Commission’s Livable Centers Initiative Program seeks to prepare and implement plans for the enhancement of existing centers and corridors consistent with regional development policies.
Planners play a key role in creating more resilient and sustainable cities, from the development of codes preserving open space, limiting stormwater runoff, and increasing municipal plantings to keep communities cooler.
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