Informed by City Agencies, City Contractors, and representatives from global cities who have successfully prioritized planning for heavy rain events, Rebuild by Design and One Architecture + Urbanism developed a pathway to turn NYC into a sponge.
Reflects on key outcomes and lessons learned from the Rebuild by Design-inspired process Water as Leverage in the Netherlands.
Discusses the transformative capacity of Rebuild by Design in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Explores the spatial and social dynamics of cities worldwide, including a section that focuses on Rebuild by Design as written by Rebuild Principal Henk Ovink.
Discusses what games and play can reveal about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how gaming, in models like the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, can help us understand the dynamics underlying interurban competition in city development.
Explores how communities around the U.S. have built local climate resilience, with a Foreword from Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild.
Water: Focuses on the role of international resilience programs and investigates how these programs can enable institutional transformation.
SeaCities: Focuses on presenting Water as Leverage proactive integral design strategies in three Asian cities: Khulna, Chennai and Semarang. Through the three projects, the chapter shows how several water management measures on different scales can be combined in integral design proposals that, in addition to addressing climate change, also improve the urban quality and liveability …
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Sustainability: Addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. It looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems.
Provides insight into different climate change adaptation plans in the United States that use participatory long-term resilience planning and collaborative design processes.
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