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New Urbanism and the Hazard Transect Overlay District: Improving the Integration of Disaster Resilience and Design in Coastal Areas

Gavin Smith, Allison Anderson and David Perkes
Landscape Journal, January 2021, 40 (1) 35-47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/wplj.40.1.35
Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and climate change adaptation and the integration of research and practice through deep community engagement. He has written the text Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework (Island Press, 2011) and served as the coeditor of Adapting to Climate Chance: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning (Springer, 2014) as well as writing numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and practice-oriented reports.
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Allison Anderson
Allison Anderson is an architect who leads the firm unabridged Architecture, which has established a practice dedicated to civic and sustainable design within fragile coastal environments. Allison earned a master’s of architecture degree from the University of Texas, where she was awarded the President’s Fellowship, and a bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Southern California. She has been a licensed architect since 1991. Allison has taught architecture at the University of Texas and Louisiana State University and was the Favrot Visiting Chair in Architecture at Tulane University.
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David Perkes is an architect and Professor at Mississippi State University. He is the founding director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, a professional outreach program of the College of Architecture, Art & Design that was established after Hurricane Katrina to provide planning and architectural design support to help rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Abstract

Growing attention has been paid to disaster resilience in the United States by government officials, academics, and design professionals. At the same time, disaster losses continue to rise at a rapid rate, due to the combined effects of long-standing settlement patterns and growth in areas prone to natural hazards and an increase in the frequency and magnitude of disastrous weather events. This article explores how New Urbanism, an increasingly ubiquitous approach to urban design, and its associated transect can be modified for better disaster resilience through the proposed creation of Hazard Transect Overlay Districts (H-Transect) that remain true to New Urbanism and disaster resilience. Two types of HTransect Overlay Districts—protect/accommodate and managed retreat/avoidance—are created and visually superimposed on the New Urbanist transect in the coastal zone, spanning riverine, tidal, and shoreline environments. Our results suggest that the proposed H-Transect Overlay District can be used in New Urbanist communities to advance resilience by actively involving land use planners, recognizing the need to further test and calibrate the concept over time.

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  • Hazard mitigation
  • climate change adaptation
  • protect/accommodate
  • managed retreat/avoidance
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Landscape Journal Jan 2021, 40 (1) 35-47; DOI: 10.3368/wplj.40.1.35

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Gavin Smith, Allison Anderson, David Perkes
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