A carbon-sequestration landscape primer: adapting neighborhoods to anthropogenic climate change
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2020
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Yi, Jiaqi
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This practicum explores new relationships between landscape architecture and anthropogenic climate change. Climate change has been affecting urban ecological systems and environments. Landscape architects have to respond to climate change effectively in their design strategies and approaches. The design research focuses on soil carbon sequestration, which is a new topic in landscape architecture but can be incorporated into landscape designs to enhance natural carbon sinks by avoiding the addition of excessive carbon emissions from eco-systems into the atmosphere with urban development. Enhancements of soil
carbon sequestrations can make urban landscapes adaptable to climate change. The design strategy focuses on how to quantify and embed soil carbon sequestration into the process of landscape designs in Winnipeg. A typical suburb in Winnipeg has been selected to demonstrate how to assess and analyze changes in carbon sequestration levels based on historical and existing conditions. Lastly,
a set of design guiding principles and creative modifications have been proposed to illustrate how to transform the neighborhood into a carbon-sequestration-oriented neighborhood and inform a new carbon-positive development of a suburb. In establishing the project in Winnipeg, the project demonstrates the possibility of adapting neighborhoods to anthropogenic climate change and can help landscape architects make climate-change-responsible design decisions.
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Carbon sequestration, climate change, neighborhoods