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Current Work: Capping Highways, Transforming Infrastructure

Highway capping, the intervention of building a deck bridge over a major roadway, can create new parkland in urban areas, stitching together formerly separated neighborhoods and mitigating negative environmental impacts of open roadways. Recent federal efforts such as the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act highlight the reparative power of highway caps in cities scarred, often along racial lines, by mid-century urban renewal. Yet the barriers to realizing these large-scale infrastructure projects are many: from the challenges of transportation planning for major thoroughfares, to sustaining public and private support over extended timelines, to the complex design decisions about both the structure of the deck itself and of community placemaking in this reclaimed urban landscape. The program will explore the process of realizing these large-scale infrastructural projects and evaluate the transformative potential of highway caps to create a more equitable, shared public realm. In this video, engineer Nat Oppenheimer of TYLin introduces the structural considerations of deck bridges, landscape architects Mary Margaret Jones (Hargreaves Jones) and Chuck McDaniel (SWA Group) will present on their firms’ in-progress highway capping projects across the country, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A moderated by Juan Camilo Osorio, professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. Speakers Mary Margaret Jones is president and CEO of Hargreaves Jones, heading the firm’s three offices. Jones has over 30 years of experience with major public realm projects. She is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, fellow of the Urban Design Forum in New York, and senior fellow of the Design Futures Council. Landscape architect and urban designer Chuck McDaniel leads SWA Group’s Dallas office. With more than 40 years at the studio, McDaniel has designed projects that have significantly shaped the city’s public realm, from the 1999 reenvisioning of the Katy Trail to more recent projects such as Pacific Plaza and Victory Park. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Nat Oppenheimer is the senior vice president and Building Sector Leader at TYLin. Oppenheimer joined the firm in 1988 and has extensive experience in the areas of new construction, renovation, and historic preservation. He is the principal in charge of much of the firm’s institutional, private residential, and educational work. Moderator Juan Camilo Osorio is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. He serves as a member of the New York City Planning Commission, appointed by the Brooklyn Borough President, Antonio Reynoso, to leverage 16 years of professional experience working as an architect and urban planner in collaboration with grassroots leaders locally and abroad. Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art.