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…
PRESS
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…
03/28/2025
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…
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…
07/30/2024
Tulsa World: Separate data reported by the Rebuild by Design project of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University support a …
07/30/2024
Attitude with Arnie Arnesen Podcast: We talk with Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild by Design.
The organization has used data colle…
07/26/2024
Waterbury Roundabout: Rebuild by Design, an outreach effort within the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, last week announced the creati…
07/25/2024
SI Advance: Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, destroying homes, impacting livelihoods and claiming lives.…
07/24/2024
AP: Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes w…
07/24/2024
ABC: While California led the nation with 34 disaster declarations, some 36 states had 10 or more, indicating the pain of climate change is …
07/24/2024
WCNC: When folks think about natural disasters, their mind immediately goes to the coast, but experts say otherwise. New data shows inland c…
07/24/2024
Fox 56: Kentuckians are no strangers to severe weather. Tornadoes, windstorms, mudslides, landslides, and even flooding are all events that …
07/23/2024
Leader Telegram: A new online tool shows just how fortunate Eau Claire County has been over the past couple decades. Created by Rebuild by D…
07/23/2024
WKMS: Newly published research shows Kentucky has some of the most disaster-plagued counties in America.…
07/23/2024
KVCR: NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge developed an Atlas of Disaster and Accountability that shows the disaster count and FEMA funds is…
07/23/2024
WBBJ: When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coa…
07/23/2024
Dev Discourse: An Atlas by New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge charts 713 FEMA-declared disasters, showing Kentucky's frequ…
07/20/2024
Washington Post: A 2% surcharge on property insurance policies, mandatory fees on the oil and gas industries, and holding a public referendu…
07/14/2024
NJ Spotlight: Hoboken’s four resiliency parks conceal massive underground tanks that can take on about 4 million gallons of rainwater. Amy C…
07/09/2024
The Daily Beast: The heat dome blighting huge swaths of the country isn’t going away yet, as the weekend shapes up to be another brutal scor…
06/22/2024
New York Times: There’s a reason heat waves feel hotter in New York City: Concrete. And here in the city, we have a lot of it.
Our building…
06/17/2024
Washington Post:
Nearly a year after catastrophic flooding struck Vermont, the city of Barre confronts the overwhelming task of steelin…
06/14/2024
6sqft: The new park is part of the State and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Rebuild by Design project, which combat…
05/30/2024
The City: In 2023, 7,344 one- to three-family homes sold across New York City — over $3.6 billion in sales — occurred in places that face l…
05/23/2024
Manchester Journal: In Vermont, according to the research organization, Rebuild by Design, “fourteen counties were hit hard by a historic fl…
05/22/2024
Staten Island Advance — The Living Breakwaters are in the final stretch of its $114 million project — and kayakers recently got to find out …
05/21/2024
VTdigger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up thei…
05/21/2024
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
05/20/2024
The Adirondack Almanack: A suite of environmental bills passed in the state Senate recently to mark last month’s Earth Day. One measure, del…
04/30/2024
PBS: Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, we dive in…
04/29/2024
Ingenio: L’anno dopo infatti nasce Rebuild by Design, un’organizzazione con il compito di far cooperare istituzioni locali e federali, unive…
04/25/2024
Little Green Podcast: Big storms aren’t going anywhere any time soon, so it’s essential to understand how cities like New York are adapting …
04/22/2024
CBS: How well is New York City prepared for the complexities of climate change, like flooding? Since Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, New York …
04/15/2024
Feet in Two Words: When Venezuelan migrant Bibiane Chamorro woke up on September 1st, 2021, at first, she thought she was dreaming.
She had…
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