Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2022 conference session.
Start Date
12/12/2024
End Date
12/11/2026
Description
Since its Green Infrastructure Plan in 2010, New York City has built thousands of green infrastructure projects. The Gowanus watershed in Brooklyn was one of the city’s first combined sewer watersheds to pilot many green infrastructure practices. Find out about lessons learned from plans, implemented projects, and maintenance and education programs.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Water / Stormwater Management
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.50
Learning Outcomes
Understand the basic types of green infrastructure, how they work, and how they are being creatively adapted and applied in urban environments.; Understand and be able to clearly and concisely communicate the benefits, co-benefits, limitations, and ongoing maintenance needs of green infrastructure.; Understand key maintenance and operations challenges and considerations for green infrastructure and the role that landscape architects must play in designing for long-term management.; Walk away with concrete examples of successes and failures in urban green infrastructure projects from an urban environment (New York City) over the last decade.
Instructors
Pippa W. Brashear, ASLA; Eric Rothstein; Andrea Parker, ASLA
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects