For Kate Orff, landscape architects must do more than "beautify"-they must help reset ecosystems to reconnect people to each other through ecological-social design. In her firm's signature projects-from the $60 million Living Breakwaters barrier reef and shoreline restoration project off Staten Island, to Atlanta's Chattahoochee RiverLands, to Resilient Boston Harbor Vision-she's also spearheading an approach to climate resilience that says we should build with nature, not just in it.

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