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Designing An Eco-Resilience Community In Brentwood, Washington D.C., Nadya Syazsa
Designing An Eco-Resilience Community In Brentwood, Washington D.C., Nadya Syazsa
Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects
As the world urbanizes at a dangerously rapid pace, this Professional Plan helps with addressing the need for urban resilience – the ability of a city’s systems to withstand and adapt to the shocks and stresses it may endure, such as natural disasters.
The purpose of this Plan is to design a network of green infrastructure projects (GIs) as part of establishing an eco-resilient community in Brentwood, Washington D.C. These projects are meant to be low-impact developments (LIDs) in order to minimize disruption to the existing fabric of the Brentwood community, yet still aid residents by increasing their capacity to …