SUN-A11: Out-Bagby, Bagby!: Developing the Next Generation of High-performance Green Streets

Sunday, November 13, 2022

9:00am – 10:00am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 215-216

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Gaylan D. Williams, ASLA, LEED AP

Urban Designer
Design Workshop
Houston, Texas

Speaker(s)

Alex Ramirez, ASLA

Office Director | Principal
Design Workshop
Houston, Texas
Marlon Marshall

Director, Engineering & Construction
Midtown Redevelopment Authority
Houston, Texas

Bagby Street, a national precedent for sustainable streetscape design, yields countless benefits that continue to foster growth and development for Midtown Houston. A decade later, the Midtown Redevelopment Authority and design team partner to transform Bagby’s sister street, Brazos, taking urban-design-oriented landscape performance benefits to a new level.

Learning Outcomes:

Articulate how strategic urban planning and a catalyst project can revitalize a struggling community.
Recognize a process that fosters neighborhood change and how landscape architects can use low-impact development and green infrastructure to help communities benefit from reinvestment and growth.
Identify lessons learned as well as best practices obtained from a precedent project and its subsequential case study investigations.
Understand a design process for designing innovative green streets that addresses use, adaptability, and circulation but places landscape performance at the forefront of design.