The Living Edge is a small, award-winning public landscape installation along the Providence River designed by Adam E. Anderson of Design Under Sky. Winning DownCity Design’s CityWorks Fellows competition, it opened in summer 2019 as a pocket-meadow project that restores native flora and creates ecological habitat adjacent to the waterfront. The design uses “fallen-log” seating that transitions into grasses, meadows, and young native trees—birch alongside successional species like elm, oak, and Kentucky coffeetree—to evoke the site’s pre-industrial marsh origins and model urban resilience and climate adaptation.