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esilient community As urban designers begin to think about natural systems as a metaphor for human development, vocabulary from the biological sciences has been adopted by architects, and taken on new meaning. Conservaon biologists have been interested in the idea of resilience – that is the capacity of a given ecosystem to maintain its essenal characteriscs despite stressors including changing environmental condions. Stressors can be events of short duraon and high intensity such as fire or hurricane, or long term events such as the aging of a mature forest canopy. The concept of resilience has also been applied to human communies, and implies durability of a range of elements from economic and social stability to ability of infrastructure to withstand the pressures of climate change. This thesis suggests that human communies are inseparable from the natural communies in which they are set. Responsible deve opment should consider the resilience of both. responsible development 5. community workshop, author Humans, perhaps the planet’s most impacul terrestrial species, have long exploited the richness of the coastal zone, for localized resources such as fish but also as a point of access to the larger marine environment for resources and transport. Coastal selement thus originated as a pragmac soluon to the habitat problem of a terrestrial species dependent on marine resources. As a species, we are sll heavily dependent on the producvity of marine ecosystems. However, selement and habitaon of the coastal zone is no longer primarily driven by nutrional or economic necessity. The majority of coastal development is now driven by humans’ aesthec preference for the coastal zone. While this preference may be biological in origin, we now choose to live there because we find it pleasurable – for the climate, breezes, recreaonal swimming, and access to expansive views and light. From an ecological standpoint, resilience is oen associated with biodiversity. The more diversity in a system, the more its essenal elements overlap, creating redundancy which allows for connuing funcon of the system if a parcular component or species is under stress. For example if a cold winter causes a certain plant to bear no fruit, plant diversity will increase the probability that there will be an alternate food source for fruit-eang species. Resilience is also associated with abundance. If a stressor causes a certain level of mortality in a species, a larger populaon will increase likelihood that a minimum viable populaon survives. Resilient design incorporates some of the same principles. For example, a resilient building would be designed for natural venlaon lessening dependence on centralized climate control, a resilient economy would contain a range of producve acvity, lessening dependence on any single sector. 4 While the praccal necessity of coastal living has decreased over me, the extent of selement, and its impact on ecological funcon has increased. Like all species, we are dependent on the ecological health of this zone for our own well being. If we choose to build and live there for aesthec reasons, it seems that there is a moral imperave to make our presence in the coastal zone as posive as possible from an ecological perspecve. At the same me, coastal development contains some of our most culturally important urban fabric.
virginia key development history Univesity of Miami’s Rosensel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) occupies about six and a half acres along the southwest shoreline of Virginia Key. An island of about 860 acres, Virginia Key is located in Biscayne Bay east of Miami and immediately north of beer k nown Key B is c ay ne (figure 1). The island is connected to mainland Miami and Key Biscayne by the Rickenbacker Causeway, a county toll road opened in 1947 to provide public access to the ocean beaches of Key Biscayne. While Miami grew rapidly as a result of residenal and tourist development, Virginia Key retained large areas of undeveloped open space, while the balance was divided into large parcels developed for public or instuonal purposes. Gulf of Mexico Project Site Atlantic Ocean 1. Biscayne Bay Aerial, Google 2. Site History Miami Miami Beach Rickenbacker Causeway Virginia Key Biscayne Bay Bear Cut Key Biscayne 5
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