Join LandscapeWebinars.org hosted live and recorded session with Dr. Galen D. Newman, PLA, FASLA and Zixu Qiao, PLA for a session on flood risk and future climate circumstances, applying structural and nonstructural mechanisms to help mitigate flood threat circumstances, and the impacts of existing and proposed designs.

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Earn LA/CESHSW, PGMS, NALP, and APLD continuing education units.

Webinar Description:
This presentation showcases innovative measures for combating flooding and sea level rise.

 




It identifies the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms to reduce flood impacts. Illustrative, global cases identify and catalogue practical and innovative structural, non-structural, and hybrid mechanisms to combat flooding and sea level rise.




Alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed to develop approaches to increase flood resilience which can be applied to help proctor new and protect existing communities. As a result of the information presented, a set of tools, typologies, and program options are categorized and described. A new design theory, the urban periculum, is then presented.




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Galen Newman / Zixu Qiao
Dr. Galen D. Newman, FASLA, FCELA, is Professor and Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) at Texas A&M University as well as the Youngblood Endowed Professor of Residential Land Development. Dr. Newman's research interests include community resilience, urban regeneration, land use science, spatial analytics, and built environment performance. His work has been published in many high-quality peer-reviewed outlets (nearly 140 journal articles and 3 books) and has been funded through numerous internal and external funding sources including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences totaling over 73 million. He has also won many national and international awards/recognitions for his research and teaching.

Zixu Qiao is a visionary landscape architect, educator, and founder of LandSpace Architecture and LandArch.org. Her work bridges design innovation, climate adaptation, and visual communication. She is the co-author of the award-winning book Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions, which received the ASLA Professional Award and the EDRA Great Places Book Award. Through her global online platforms, she shares cutting-edge design tutorials, mapping techniques, and AI applications in landscape and urban design. Passionate about education and climate resilience, Zixu actively lectures internationally and empowers young designers through workshops, exhibitions, and mentorship.