Tampa as the Ecological City. Living with and Inhabiting the Estuary and the Swamp

[RE]STITCH TAMPA, Actar, Energy and sustainability, Essay, High Density, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Shannon Bassett, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Ecological activation, Ecological researches, Ecological urbanism, Essay, Estuary, Florida, Housing market, Land-banking, Local resources, New Statements on Nature, Post-war society, Renaturalizing city, Renewable resources, Resilience, Resilient cities, Tampa, Urban Paradigms, Urban policies, Water infrastructure, Waterfront

Excerpt from "(Re)Stitch Tampa. Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City with Ecologies", 2017 -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2016946867

The (Re) Stitch Tampa project was initially conceptualized during 2010 around the advent of the announcement of what was to be the first high-speed rail line in the US. The Obama Administration had just announced as part of its “New” New Deal program, that the region was to receive 1.2 billion dollars in federal monies earmarked for the construction of a high-speed rail line along the Tampa-Orlando corridor. The program was reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA program, during the great Depression, where the federal government funded large-scale public infrastructural projects with the intent of jump-starting the economy.