09/08/2025
NJ: The poll, which was conducted in partnership with Rebuild by Design and the Environmental Defense Fund, shows broad support across party…
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09/08/2025
FDU: With devastating floods becoming more common in New Jersey, three-quarters of voters (77 percent) now say that they are concerned about…
09/08/2025
Seventy-six percent of New Jersey residents support a $3 billion public bond for climate resilience infrastructure, according to a poll rele…
09/02/2025
Dezeen: The US Housing and Urban Development launched Rebuild by Design, under the America Competes Act, calling for international, interdis…
08/23/2025
NY Times: The superstorm prompted a novel initiative by the Obama administration to jump-start projects in and around New York that would fo…
08/17/2025
Wallpaper: Government responses to disasters have also resulted in architecture focused on future mitigation. In June 2013, just 8 months af…
08/11/2025
Inside Climate News: The forecast already has proof of being true, as Vermont is now one of the top 10 states in declaring federal disasters…
08/11/2025
The Cool Down: Elsewhere, policymakers and researchers are working on long-term solutions, such as updating building codes, restoring wetlan…
08/06/2025
NY Daily News: What if Pizza Rat told New Yorkers to check their subway route for possible closures before or during heavy rains. Mr. Met co…
08/05/2025
Interesting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil c…
07/29/2025
North Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design's Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disaster…
07/18/2025
Katie Couric: “Trump has come out with his guns blazing against FEMA,” New York University’s Rebuild By Design director Amy Chester tells us…
07/15/2025
Spectrum News TX: “FEMA is frontline aid for states across the country,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York Univers…
07/14/2025
The Hill: The nonpartisan organization Rebuild by Design notes that 40 states experienced 10 or more major disasters (those causing more tha…
07/13/2025
Times of San Diego: Rebuild by Design “put designers in the driver’s seat to come up with ideas as to how to protect Manhattan from the next…
07/11/2025
The Cool Down: New York City has a new elevated waterfront park, and the first section just opened to the public 13 years after Hurricane Sa…
06/16/2025
The Guardian: ‘The whole idea was to use the park as the “wall” that would protect the community behind it, but also give the community new …
06/12/2025
EESI: After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New Jersey received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for two adaptation project…
06/12/2025
Patch: In a recent study conducted by Rebuild by Design (RBD), 1.3 million people in New Jersey live in high flood risk areas, with half of …
06/11/2025
Arch Paper: A short PATH ride away in Hoboken is ResilienCity Park (formerly known as Northwest Resiliency Park). Led by E&LP (now AKRF)…
06/06/2025
Leisure Opportunities: Memorial Day (29 May) saw the opening of phase one of the East River Park redevelopment in New York City, with the ne…
06/05/2025
Cape May County Herald: A new report by the public-private partnership Rebuild by Design says Cape May and Atlantic counties have the most p…
05/30/2025
Press of Atlantic City: Rebuild By Design, the public-private partnership formed after Superstorm Sandy to plan protective measures for futu…
05/30/2025
PBS: Hundreds of thousands of people could be forced from their homes, new report says. “We’re sounding the alarm, and we’re saying, ‘Hey, l…
05/29/2025
Gothamist: One of the largest projects designed to protect Manhattan from a catastrophic flood has reached a new milestone with the opening …
05/29/2025
Construction Equipment Guide: Meadowlands Stadium area in NJ prone to flooding; NJDEP's $150M Rebuild by Design project aims to reduce flood…
05/23/2025
NYC: “The first section of the $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project is a unique achievement that was completed ahead of schedu…
05/06/2025
Kansas City Star: But a disaster here and a disaster there can add up. The “Atlas of Disaster,” a database from New York University, reveals…
05/06/2025
SI Live: The beach also has a fantastic view of the rock islands of the Living Breakwaters project in Raritan Bay.
The rock islands aid i…
04/28/2025
Fast Company: According to a study published today by Rebuild by Design, an organization dedicated to using design solutions to solve comple…
04/28/2025
Associated Press: Disasters affect the vast majority of Americans — 95% live in a county that has had a federally declared weather disaster …
04/25/2025
NY1: It’s become a regular occurrence here in New York City: A powerful rainstorm overwhelms the city’s infrastructure, causing flood damage…
04/10/2025
Queens Chronicle: Amy Chester, director of the NYU program Rebuild by Design, then discussed the potential for green space to mitigate such …
04/08/2025
Habitat Mag: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to mo…
04/07/2025
New York Times: “The sooner we decide as a city to invest in resilience measures to help neighborhoods adapt — whether it’s to fortify or to…
04/07/2025
NY Times: Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, questioned the wisdom of the cuts, saying the grants were “critical to help us rebuild” after a litany of …
04/01/2025
The City: Amy Chester, director of resiliency nonprofit Rebuild By Design, saw “Flood Sensor Aunty” in Astoria, Queens, in September and was…
03/31/2025
The Hill: No part of the United States, red or blue, is exempt from weather disasters. Rebuild by Design, a disaster-mitigation think tank, …
03/28/2025
News Break: Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, agrees with Castor’s concerns. She explains that transferring FEMA’s responsibilitie…
03/26/2025
Fox 13: Amy Chester, the director of the non-profit Rebuild by Design, has dealt with FEMA a lot over the years and said transferring its re…
03/18/2025
Green Builder Media: Rebuild by Design coupled innovation and global expertise with community insight to develop solutions to the most compl…
03/12/2025
Urban Omnibus: The stories we share below, reported from the imaginations of climate adaptation expert Amy Chester, CUNY professor and activ…
02/26/2025
The Guardian: Back in 2014, Alaska, the Pacific north-west and the midwest were identified in the New York Times as “places that will fare m…
02/24/2025
WKYT: In this map created by Rebuild by Design, a non-profit at New York University, you can see a high concentration of incidents in easter…
02/23/2025
AMNY: The South Battery Park City Resiliency Project (SBPCRP) in Lower Manhattan is completing its final touches just in time for the summer…
02/21/2025
Fast Company: It’s a move that threatens the entire country—and some Republican-led districts more so. Every single state has had at least o…
02/15/2025
Newsday: The broader picture: New York had the second-highest disaster assistance by state at $1,326 per capita, behind Louisiana, according…
02/11/2025
Newsweek: States led by Republican governors or represented by two Republican senators tend to experience more disasters and receive slightl…
02/10/2025
Fox 13 News: A map produced by "Rebuild by Design," a non-profit at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, shows that 93% of U.S. counties ha…
02/10/2025
Newsday: President Donald Trump wants to revamp the Federal Emergency Management Agency or possibly get rid of it as he recently suggested.…
02/03/2025
Associated Press: Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Manag…
01/28/2025
Yale e360: Vermont’s Washington County, which contains Plainfield and Montpelier, the state capital, ranked third in the nation in total dis…
01/28/2025
Yale 360: An increase in extreme precipitation events has hit the tiny, mountainous state of Vermont especially hard. As disaster declaratio…
01/15/2025
Landscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county…
01/15/2025
Landscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county…
01/13/2025
FAS: The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-partisan, nonprofit science think tank dedicated to developing evidence-based polici…
01/13/2025
Announcement Comes as 2024 is Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record; Lingering Effects of Extreme Heat Fuel Catastrophic Wildfires in C…
01/03/2025
The Guardian: Caleb Stratton, Hoboken’s chief resilience officer, recalls how city officials asked him to lead the rebuilding and recovery e…
12/16/2024
Harvard News: Sandy’s arrival in 2012 accelerated the search for water management solutions that combined gray and green approaches. This hy…
12/02/2024
Geographical: The benefits of breeding oysters and better sewage- disposal practices have already changed the course of New York Harbor life…
11/25/2024
Bloomberg: Living Breakwaters, one of seven funded projects to emerge from the competition, addresses more than storm surge. It is designed …
11/05/2024
Arch Daily: Superstorm Sandy inundated Lower Manhattan, causing billions in property and infrastructure damage. To protect against future fl…
10/29/2024
The City: Less than a quarter-mile off Staten Island’s southernmost shore, eight rocky structures rise from the ocean and run parallel to th…
10/29/2024
New York Daily News: Twelve years ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall and devastated New York City and surrounding communities. After …
10/17/2024
MSN: NYC completed a major part of a storm protection project on Manhattan’s Lower East Side this week, at a time when natural disasters are…
10/12/2024
CBC: In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the U.S. eastern seaboard. The storm surge, flooding and winds caused extensive loss of life a…
10/08/2024
Wallpaper: The 2024 Obel Award has just been announced, crowning 36x36 by Colectivo C733 in Mexico its winner. A true collective formed by t…
10/07/2024
Scripps News: While Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas pick through likely tens of billions of dollars in damage from Helene, another mighty…
10/03/2024
Dredging Today: An innovative $111 million Living Breakwaters project on Staten Island has been completed.…
10/02/2024
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In the wake of deadly storms like Hurricane Ida and Helene, new rainwater-absorbing systems turn hundreds of acres int…
10/01/2024
The City: In the wake of deadly storms like Hurricane Ida and Helene, new rainwater-absorbing systems turn hundreds of acres into an urban s…
09/29/2024
SI Live: The much-anticipated construction completion celebration of the Living Breakwaters project may have been dampened by rain on Sept. …
09/27/2024
6sqft: After over a decade of effort, a coastal resilience project designed to protect Staten Island shores with livable habitats for sea cr…
09/27/2024
New York State: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of Living Breakwaters, an innovative $111 million project designed to i…
09/27/2024
Bis Now: There are simply fewer places today that don’t face some risk from hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, winter storms or other natural…
09/26/2024
Waterfront Alliance: In 2012, Hurricane Sandy wreaked devastation upon New York, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and billions of dollar…
09/18/2024
Bangkok Biz News: Americans are making their home ownership dreams come true by buying affordable “flood zone” homes, driving sales up nearl…
09/17/2024
Arch Daily: While some communities face extreme heat, others brace for storms and rising waters, and many face multiple impacts.…
09/16/2024
Insurance Rate Reporter: Rebuild by Design, a research project from New York University (NYU), recently published the Atlas of Accountabilit…
09/16/2024
The Xylom: Although Georgia has seen the lowest number of major disaster declarations over the last decade among the Southeastern states, da…
09/15/2024
New York Times: New Yorkers are spending billions on houses in flood-prone areas despite growing awareness of the effects of climate change.…
09/12/2024
Arch Daily: The Obel Award is an international prize seeking to highlight unconventional and original initiatives within the architectural p…
09/09/2024
Ingenio: New York City, come molte altre città del mondo, sta affrontando la difficile realtà del cambiamento climatico e dei suoi pesanti i…
09/05/2024
Vermont Biz: We’ll begin with an interactive briefing on Rebuild by Design’s Atlas of Accountability, a new virtual tool that allows users t…
08/31/2024
NHPR: Lyndonville and the surrounding Northeast Kingdom communities aren’t alone in being on that road. By at least one count, Washington Co…
08/31/2024
Maine Public: By at least one count, Washington County — home to Montpelier — is now tied for being the second-most disaster prone county in…
08/26/2024
News Journal: The Six and Twenty Book Club met at Jill Borton’s home on Aug. 9. Ruth Dooley was the program leader for the day.…
08/23/2024
CT Insider Opinion by Amy Chester and Tom Swan…
08/23/2024
Amsterdam News: Normally, Estefani Nuñez parks the small yellow school bus she drives each day by the side of her home in the Rosedale neigh…
08/21/2024
Clover Leaf: Ninety percent of counties in the US have endured floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other natural disasters since 2011, accordi…
08/20/2024
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: At its most basic, the goal of the Disaster Dollar Database is to start to make visible federal …
08/20/2024
Grist: Hello and welcome to week three of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m J…
08/20/2024
Carnegie Endowment: The rising pace and cost of disasters is cause for alarm, both because of the likelihood of major disruption in so many …
08/20/2024
Grist: It’s a truism among emergency managers and disaster experts that no region or area is safe from disasters, but the places in the Unit…
08/16/2024
Capital Press Room: In light of state lawmakers looking to revive New York’s task force on sea level rise, we examine the threat of rising s…
08/09/2024
NHPR: A new report from the non-profit Rebuild by Design shows that New Hampshire has received 18 disaster declarations between 2011 and 202…
08/07/2024
Crains New York Business: New Yorkers jogging along the East River bike path below 23rd Street are finding something new — a 10-foot concret…
08/05/2024
Climate Proof: Want to know how often your home county has been hit by extreme weather events? Then this new map is for you. The Atlas of Ac…
08/02/2024
Government Technology: A new tool from Rebuild by Design shows climate change is an equal opportunity hazard. But spending money ahead of ti…
07/31/2024
Voa Learning English: When it comes to disasters in the United States, most people think of major storms and earthquakes that hit coastal ar…