Remapping Resilience: Urban-Ecological Infrastructures of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeastern Florida
The University of Chicago
2023–Ongoing
A collaborative effort between the Urban Theory Lab and Florida International University— supported by NSF’s Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under the LTER V: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems grant— Remapping Resilience prototypes an integrated research methodology for analyzing, communicating, and planning the spatial, technical, and environmental transformations required to harness ecosystems as urban-resilience infrastructure along Southeastern Florida’s climate-stressed coast. Anchored in a living “urban-ecological laboratory” stretching from Key West to Cape Canaveral, the project fuses historical inquiry with forward-looking scenario design, combining geospatial mapping, data visualization, and other spatial media to trace how engineered landscapes and wetlands produce a hybrid patchwork of blue, green, and gray waters that mediate social relations to sea-level rise, extreme heat and meteorological events, and ecological degradation.
