Sustainable City Collective talks about the potential for the industrialized Gowanus Canal to become a new kind of wetland with an idea called Gowanus Flowlands.
Excerpt:
The proposed solution integrated layers of urban activity into a wetlands ecology. Using the elevation difference between the canal and the grid of roads around it, the surrounding lots were terraced into a series of levels that stepped down to the water’s edge. Each layer fostered a different micro-climate of wetlands activity that, in turn, provided different methods of remediation.”
Read it all here: When City and Wetlands Collide
