Nette Compton - Building a Sustainable City

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Nette Compton

Building a Sustainable City

On January 6th, 2011, in partnership with the Design Trust for Public Space, the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation released High Performance Landscape Guidelines: 21st Century Parks for NYC, the first of its kind in the United States. A comprehensive manual for sustainable parks and open space, it will change the way all of New York City’s parks are designed, built, and maintained. This will improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers while reducing the city’s impact on the earth—cleaning our air, absorbing storm water, reducing the urban heat island effect, providing habitat, and addressing the challenges of climate change. Nette will talk about the “Guidelines” development as well as its content and relevance to all landscape and garden work in the city.

Nette Compton, a Senior Project Manager for Design for the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, served as fellow and project manager for the High Performance Landscape Guidelines and now works on implementing them throughout the agency. She is involved with several sustainability initiatives within the Parks Department, other agencies and the Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University.