Publications
Kira Clingen, “Place‑Based Scenario Planning: A Design Research Methodology for Climate Adaptation,” in Resilient Urbanism, ed. Gihan Karunaratne (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2025), 250–264.
Image credit: Charles Waldheim/Office for Urbanization, "Dog Bar During the Great Storm of 2038," Compound Vulnerabilities: The Case of Cape Ann (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2022), capeann.officeforurbanization.org
Kira Clingen, “Dunes, development, delay: climate change comes to Long Beach,” Arcadia no. 3 (2025).
Kira Clingen/Office for Urbanization, Long Beach Is...? Long Beach Could Be...? Place-Based Scenarios for a Cultural Landscape in a Changing Climate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2024).
Kira Clingen, Rai Saad Khan, Keoni Rodriguez, Toward a Global Framework for Coastal Public Access (Washington, D.C.: Planet Reimagined, 2021)
Kira Clingen, “Long Beach Is..? Articulating Place-Based Scenario Planning for the Climate Emergency,” DocTalks X MoMA, June 4 2024.
Kira Clingen, "Suburban Large-Lot Tinkerscape," SITE Magazine 3: Common Currencies (2024).
Kira Clingen, "The Sparrow in the Marsh: Reframing Certainties toward Climate Choices," Thresholds 52 (2024).
Kira Clingen and Edyth Jostol, "Cryptomeria japonica: Climate Change, Cultivation, and Culture," Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities Lab (2023).
Kira Clingen, "Cannabis Communitas," CLOG 17 (2020).
Kira Clingen, "How Fruit Orchards Blossomed in a High Desert Park," Civil Eats, 2019.
Kira Clingen, "How to be Seaworthy," Yale Paprika! 6, iss. 3 (2020).
Kira Clingen, "Preppercraft: Speculative Fiction from the Usable Past," LUNCH 17 (2023).
Mark Robert Bavoso and Kira Bre Clingen, "write to the Disciplinary Divide," Open Letters 85 (2021)
Kira Clingen, "Wild Yam: The Rhizomes of the Pill," Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities Lab (2023)
Clingen, Kira, Michael Grove and Wendell Joseph, eds. Amplify. Boston, MA: Boston Society of Landscape Architects, 2020.