Urbanist - New Ideas for Vulnerable Lands
By 2100 sea level rise in San Francisco Bay is projected at 1.5 meters. Regional impacts are extensive- infrastructure, agriculture, wetlands, and existing developments will all be affected in the next century by increasing water in the bay. This gradual increase of sea level rise will put more and more of San Francisco bay into the flood plane. Throughout the past century and a half the San Francisco Bay decreased by over a third of its original size. During the next century as the size of the bay increases, we have the opportunity to redefine this edge.
New strategies in planning and design are crucial to develop as we head into the next century. Sea level rise will constantly be in flux as it adjusts and shifts over time, and any intervention or new development should be capable to alter with it. With extensive new developments planned and constructed along the industrial edge of San Francisco, the eastern waterfront is the area of San Francisco most adaptable to change and represents new opportunities for innova- tion.
Sea level rise in the bay won’t be addressed through any one answer, but takes consideration of each individual edge and its relationship to the past, present and future. For our generation, we must decide which areas are crucial to protect, and which areas can take a natural course of change, and shift and adjust as we negotiate with the sea. |
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Publish Date: Nov / Dec 2009
Publisher: SPUR
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