Collective Resiliency

Abstract

This thesis explores community resiliency surrounding natural disasters in public spaces. Both landscape and built typologies play an important role in building resiliency however, shifting community mentalities are vital to maintaining the future livability of flood prone neighborhoods. Policy change is the beginning of this shifting mentality; everyone deserves public space and safety. Increasingly dangerous weather conditions prioritize our need to remain in control of an uncontrollable source. This thesis intervention proposes changes through modified landscape and built typologies for under served communities.