Author Archive for: TAMU Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative

Title: San Francisco’s Eastside Resilience through Fluid Adaptation across Time, Space, and Scale Time: Noon on October 5, 2017 Location: 5th Floor Conference Room, 30 Van Ness Speaker: Hope Hui Rising, PhD, PLA Dr. Hope Hui Rising will be presenting to the San Francisco Sea Level Rise Adaptation Committee. The presentation will focus on fluid […]

On August 7, Dr. Hope Hui Rising made a presentation to the Landscape Architecture Foundation with four other professors from around the country. Her presentation focused on the use of landscape performance to motivate proactive funding mechanism for climate-adaptive interventions, which often rely on disaster-driven funding, by documenting their short-term co-benefits as ecosystem services that can contribute to long-term resilience incrementally.

Dr. Hope Hui Rising presented “Adaptive Water Urbanism for Three Coastal Cities” to the Climate and Water Policy Board at the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association.

On June 1, Dr. Hope Hui Rising presented her paper entitled “Mitigating stress-inducing effects of viewing urban hardscapes with water sounds,” which won the second place for the 2017 Best Paper Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. ABSTRACT With a repeated measures design, we investigated the potential of waterscapes in mitigating the stress-inducing effects […]

Dr. Hope Hui Rising presented “Mainstreaming water retention within right-of-ways with ecosystem services: Meandering blue parkways as building blocks of amphibious transportation system.” for the urban design track at the 2017 Council for Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference. ABSTRACT Many cities have sought to retain water through place-making in order to better adapt to the […]