(re) stitch Resilience

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

Concept, Ecological researches, Local resources, New Statements on Nature, Renaturalizing city, Renewable resources, Resilience, Resilient cities, Urban Paradigms

Excerpt from (Re)Stitch Tampa. Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City with Ecologies, 2017

https://lccn.loc.gov/2016946867

This publication critically examines these issues through essays, in addition to showcasing selected competition entries, the results of [re] Stitch Tampa. The discourse distills the design schemes and examines their possibilities as viable alternative urban models for development, which reconsider the relationship of landscape to the city and urban redevelopment. It also proposes how the schemes might operate as transformative urban design agents and as the underlying connective tissue which [re] stitch the city to the river and bring the river and its ecologies into the city.