John King, urban design critic at The San Francisco Chronicle, reported on September 30, 2019, on landscape architect Kate Orff’s ambitious plan for “a five-acre constructed ecosystem” along the west coast waterfront with “tide pools open to waters and a bayside lawn capable of holding 5,000 people.” Orff, of Scape Studio, NY, was the first landscape architect honored with a MacArthur “Genius Award” for her work “designing adaptive and resilient urban habitats and encouraging residents to be active stewards of the ecological systems underlying our built environment.”