60 Laura Stedenfeld Approaching waterfront planning through the lens of resiliency can empower communities to equitably design and implement safe, sustainable solutions for anticipating, adapting to, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. Many communities are now met with forceful stressors such as warehouse development, data centers, low-density development, flood risks, crop-killing drought, and life-threatening heat. As constant pressure from myriad environmental, economic, and infrastructural systems shapes waterways and our relationship to them, “resiliency” planning is not just a best practice but an absolute necessity. We need resilient systems right now. There has been a gradual shift in talking about “sustainable” to “resilient” systems as effects of climate change finally started to reveal themselves in the past two decades. And today, we’re firmly entrenched within the crisis. Relational Landscapes: Moving Past Resilience Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 Founding Principal of Omnes Landscape Architecture, responding to Tessa Kelly on stewardship, reciprocity, and relational waterfront design.
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