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Deepen the knowledge base as planners, designers, and implementers, • Promote a model for innovation in thinking and design that advances the profession, • Energize teams, consultants, and clients through rigorous, and conclusive processes, and Restore Wetlands Enhance Relationship to ncrease Housinginvestigative, Variety • Fill the gaps thatWater exist between research and practice at local, regional, national, and international scales
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In the same spirit of the firm’s founder, Hideo Sasaki, a landscape architect, planner, and educator, Sasaki continues its legacy of mixing practice and teaching. Cross-pollinating between practice and academia provides opportunities for research in action. Many design studios taught by those at Sasaki, focus on real-world issues that creatively address challenges with new approaches.
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Global climate change is an increasingly local—and regular—reality. Water Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy left many communities traumatized and exposed much vulnerability in the coastal Northeast. In parallel to Sasaki's work with the NY State's New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program, graduate planning students at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning were asked to imagine alternative futures for south shore Long Island. Students focused on the Massapequas, a community southeast of Levittown, New York, that is characterized by dense single-family suburban development. Students were challenged to consider the site not only as a physical location, but also as a dynamic construct influenced Hard Private Edge by natural, cultural, economic, political, and morphological forces. Through an intensive semester, students balanced their responses to environmental forces, economic realities, and the community feedback accumulated during the parallel NY Rising engagement process. Students asked:
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Strategies for phased retreat and prototypes for new ecologically-derived patterns positioning infrastructure as open space, a community resource, and protection for new and dense inland residential developments (Rendering: Kara Elliott-Ortega, MIT)
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