Designing Green Infrastructure Strategies to Support a Resilient Downtown Miami Corridor

The Town of Miami is a historic mining community in the Copper Corridor region of Arizona. Situated in a mountainous region, the community experiences more extreme weather conditions than other areas of the state, including fires, floods, and landslides, with local impacts often exacerbated by the topography of the watershed in relation to commercial, industrial, and residential areas of the community. Most notably, the wash directly adjacent to Miami’s downtown corridor, Sullivan Street, frequently floods after rain events and causes damage to the surrounding area. As the Town is planning for a new era of growth and development as more residents move to the area to support mining operations in the region, Miami is interested in identifying opportunities to implement green infrastructure strategies and design solutions to more effectively manage the movement of water throughout the watershed while also improving the aesthetics of Downtown Miami. Therefore, the Town of Miami will collaborate with Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BSLA) capstone students to map and analyze key characteristics of the watershed, identify and design opportunities for green infrastructure strategies and elements throughout the downtown corridor of Miami.