SCAPE Landscape Architecture

The Chattahoochee Riverlands project weaves neighbourhoods, schools, woodlands, and shoals together into a contiguous public space and reparative ecological infrastructure. This is the focus of SCAPE’s contribution to The Laboratory of the Future.
Building from over four decades of community planning, remediation, and grassroots environmental justice advocacy, this generational effort to reconnect Atlanta with its major river, the Chattahoochee, is just beginning to take form. Overlaid across 125 miles of diverse territory, spanning downtown, suburban fringe, agricultural fields, and intact forests, the Chattahoochee Riverlands stitches accessible bikeways and greenways, micro-parks and rocky overlooks into the existing urban– rural fabric, connecting over one million residents to each other and to an immersive riverine landscape.
The Chattahoochee Riverlands prefigures both a form of next-century climate infrastructure and a process that centres on a collaborative method of workshopping and co-creation.

Authorial collaborators
The Chattahoochee RiverLands Project Management Team (The Trust for Public Land, Atlanta Regional Commission, City of Atlanta, Cobb County Government)
Technical collaborators
Gresham Smith, New South Associates, Biohabitats, Na’Taki Osborne Jelks (Spelman College), Richard Milligan (Georgia State University)
Team
SCAPE Team: Gena Wirth, Nans Voron, Chris Barnes, Grace Dials, Sophie Riedel, Liz Camuti, Tirta “Ryan” Pryandana, Jessica Guinto, Maria Palomares
Exhibition Team: Nans Voron, Christian Cueva, Jackson Rollings, Grace Dials, Chidera Osuji, Erica Rollings