Description
Vancouver recognizes the need to plan for future sea level rise and help flood-vulnerable shoreline, communities and businesses to become more resilient. The city organised the Sea2City Design Challenge (Sea2City) to inform a framework and vision to guide urban development and ecological revitalization in the False Creek floodplain, a highly valued and constrained urban waterway in the heart of the city.Sea2City invited two teams to investigate the urban future of False Creek. The design team – which included PWL Partnership Landscape Architects, Deltares, Modern Formline Design and an interdisciplinary resource team – worked on long-term proposals for the Between Bridges and Coopers’ Park areas. They created a re-wilding vision for the larger system of the False Creek waterfront and these concrete sites’ futures in 2100 and beyond, as well as a series of transition stages to get there, including proposals for pilot projects to take the first steps. The 2100 Re-wilding False Creek vision incorporates the cultural knowledge of the Local Coast Community (Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation), learning from these communities’ reciprocal lifestyle with nature.
Fundamental to the team’s proposals is the recognition that traditional approaches to urban waterfronts, which revolve around resisting the water with hard infrastructure, are no longer effective in an era of rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events. The proposals thus centre on allowing the city to coexist with the water.
| Period | 30 May 2024 |
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| Event title | 2024 Floating Habitat Symposium |
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |