Historically it has been a frontier settlement of utmost strategic importance, existing variously at the southern edge of the Incan Empire, the eastern edge of colonial Chile, and now the western border of Argentina. Mendoza, Argentina is a modern city of nearly one million inhabitants situated on the border between the great agricultural plains of Argentina and the desert foothills of the Andes Mountains. Through an analysis of the Parque General San Martin in Mendoza, Argentina, this paper examines the work of 19th century landscape designer Carlos Thays alongside the material contributions of the indigenous Huarpes people to consider the discipline of landscape architecture as part of a long line of landscape practice in the challenging environment of western Argentina. Prepared by: Adam Sweanor, Aida Habibelahi, Alessandro Valente, Anne Winter, Arianna Rueda-Lascano, Arin Mardirossian, Curtis Shum, Daniel Marchesan, Daniela DeGasperis, Deidre Tomlinson, Jake Garland, Julien Kuehnhold, Katie Hickey, Katryna Vergis-Mayo, Melinda Holland, Nathan Jenkins, Ramiya Rajalingam, Samson Ahensan The primary mandate of the reports were to identify cultural landscapes in Toronto by highlighting features including their connections to the public realm and local history, to highlight the importance of the protection of these landscapes, and to educate the public to promote awareness and stewardship of cultural landscapes and emphasize their role in the process. The groups developed comprehensive reports that outlined the various forms and sites of cultural heritage that exist in Toronto across temporal and spatial scales. The undergraduate and graduate student groups each were tasked with contributing to the dialogue on the importance of cultural landscapes within the City of Toronto and to inform the work of TCLF. In print and online, the WOT guides are a series of publications that serve as unique place-based model to the cultural landscapes of selected cities in North America. The guides provokes interest, informs stewardship decisions, and enriches the collective understanding of our designed landscape history. TCLF’s What’s Out There (WOT) guides and the associated online database serve as a reference to cultural landscapes for the public, academics and professionals. Under current limitation of adaptive land uses and availability of large lands for detention in the urbanized watershed, this paper suggested that innovations in employing detention techniques in currently built urban areas on impervious and non-natural pervious areas play an important role in integrated green infrastructure network in urban stormwater management systems for mitigating climate-induced environmental hazards.įounded by Charles Birnbaum, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that provides people with the tools to see, understand and value cultural landscapes and the designers, planners and landscape architects that help to create these places. Moreover, regression model results indicated that a range of 12 to 18% and 0 to 9% of drainage subbasin area would be required for detention area to achieve zero and baseline level of Hazard Index hazard mitigation policy goals respectively. Results from regression analysis illustrated detentions were most effective when temperature increased no more than 2˚C. Under the uncertainty of climate change impacts on long-term flooding hazards, this paper employed SWAT hydrological modeling for an empirical study examining the effectiveness of using detention area for long-term (45 years) flooding hazards mitigation under 36 climate change scenarios. Integrated green infrastructure planning with both structural and non-structural stormwater management practices has emerged as a critical climate change adaptation strategy. Climate change is projected to have impacts on increased temperature as well as frequent and intense rainfalls in the Northeast region of the United States.
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