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Lauren Bergenholtz

Associate

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Lauren is an Associate at CMG Landscape Architecture with five years of experience. Her background in the history of urban social movements, watershed ecology and rehabilitation, and bicycle advocacy brought her to landscape architecture. In her design work and research, she engages with themes such as geologic process, ecological succession, and community resilience.

Lauren’s persistent work on Treasure Island Parks + Open Space, including the Yerba Buena Island Dog Park, Cityside Park, and the Eastside Commons, has brought this multi decade project closer to final design realization.

Lauren has received many American Society of Landscape Architects awards through University of California Berkeley as well as the ASLA Northern California Chapter. In 2017, she was recognized as a University Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Outside of her work at CMG, Lauren teaches bike repair at a community workshop in South Berkeley and plans her next thru-hiking adventure. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Reed College.

Awards

2017 Landscape Architecture Foundation, University Olmsted Foundation Scholar

2017 ASLA Graduate Merit Award - Northern California Chapter

2016-2017 ASLA Student Chapter President, University of California Berkeley

2015-2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California Berkeley

Selected Projects

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Estuary Commons Design Challenge

resilience

Estuary Commons creates a network of public spaces, adapts ecological systems, and strengthens social and economic relationships for a future of community-driven resilience. The need to address the urgency of social, racial, and economic inequality alongside long-term environmental risks is acute in the San Leandro Bay. The Estuary Commons is a strategic vision for community resilience that begins by addressing structural and systemic injustices that result in daily challenges for residents and communities – jobs, housing, transportation, and health.
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Estuary Commons Co-Creation

engagement

To protect local neighborhoods and restore native habitats, All Bay Collective (ABC) rethinks the shoreline around San Leandro Bay. Through Estuary Commons, the communities of Deep East Oakland, Alameda, and San Leandro will be able to adapt to sea-level rise, groundwater flooding and have a network of flourishing greenways to enjoy for generations to come. ABC has worked closely with eight community organizations from East Oakland to move the communities from the margins to the center of the design and planning process.
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Treasure Island Parks + Open Space

parks/public space

A contemporary landscape that is socially active, environmentally progressive, well-crafted, and rooted in its place as an island in the middle of the Bay. CMG has approached the large and complex redevelopment of Treasure Island as an opportunity to pioneer innovation in sustainable infrastructure and socially oriented landscapes.
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San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program

resilience

San Francisco has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine its waterfront—to connect and revitalize its communities, ecologies, transportation networks, and public space on the water. Like many coastal cities around the world, the city is challenged to adapt as sea levels rise and aging shoreline infrastructure grows vulnerable to seismic hazards. San Francisco is leading the way not just to meet this challenge but to embrace the opportunity. The Port of San Francisco embarked on the Waterfront Resilience Program (WRP) to undertake critical life safety upgrades and infrastructure improvements, adapting and strengthening 7.5 miles of the city’s shoreline. CMG is part of a diverse and collaborative team of engineers, urban designers, planners, and public engagement specialists working in partnership alongside City and Federal agencies to envision a resilient waterfront and enduring public resource for generations of Bay Area residents and visitors.