Field Session

FS-004 - Reclaiming the Riverfront: Climbing, Concerts, Kayaks, and More

Compliments of: 

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Nathan Oliver, ASLA

  Partner
  Hawkins Partners Landscape Architects
  Nashville, Tennessee
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  Will H. Marth, ASLA

  Associate|Partner
  Hawkins Partners
  Nashville, Tennessee
• CC

  Chris Camp, ASLA

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  Bert Mathews

  Chief Manager
  The Mathews Company
  Nashville, Tennessee
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  Chris Davis, AIA

  Senior Associate
  Hastings, Tennessee
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  Gina Ford, FASLA, FASLA

  Principal and Co-Founder
  Agency Landscape + Planning
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
• AG

  Anna Grider

  Planner
  City of Nashville

5.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

SOLD OUT

The riverfront story includes leveraging public and private investment opportunities, catalyzing development through infrastructure improvements, and making a long-term commitment to sustainability. Hear how land that was once used by industry is now home to award-winning public spaces, entertainment venues, multi-modal bicycle and pedestrian connections, historic preservation sites, and mixed-use communities.

$80 per person by August 18; $95 after August 18; includes water and catered lunch. Extensive walking.

Credit Matt Carbone

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn how public open space and infrastructure can be a catalyst for economic development.
• Understand the history of riverfront land and how once industrial uses are transitioning to provide much needed public space, infrastructure, and connections.
• Learn how sustainable design principles and practices can be seamlessly integrated in a variety of ways
• Learn how community advocates, long range planning and master planning informs projects and designs years later.