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Rebuild by design: Building resilience with winning strategies

Australian Journal of Emergency Management: Interview with Helen Lochhead, deputy Government Architect New South Wales (Australia). She believes designers can not only help governments and communities plan for, and rebuild after, major disasters, but also initiate better solutions that build long-term urban resilience. The interview focuses on Rebuild by Design as an example of this.

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Interviews with rebuild by design’s working group of experts

Public Culture: In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design convened an international working group of experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics. The article contains interviews with several members of the working group on the challenges and opportunities that cities increasingly face in a warming world, with a focus on

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Planning for resilience in New York metro region after Hurricane Sandy

Outlines the major spatial planning initiatives undertaken in the New York region in response to Hurricane Sandy, illustrating the different approaches taken by New York City, New York State and the US federal government and contrasting these programs with the spatial planning programs in neighbouring New Jersey, which was equally hard hit by the storm.

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Learning through competition: resilience on the Jersey Shore after Rebuild By Design

MIT: Examines the potential for competitions to foster a shift toward resilient design in local planning practice. The three municipalities that serve as cases — Asbury Park, Keansburg, and Toms River, New Jersey — each received detailed visions and plans for substantial resilience projects through the federal Rebuild by Design competition, but did not win

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Integrating components of resilient systems into cultural landscape management practices

University of Pennsylvania Press: The five components of resilient systems, as outlined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Rebuild by Design competition brief, are used as a framework in this article to evaluate the merits of particular interventions or management approaches in cultural landscapes.

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Design Meets Science in a Changing Climate: A Case for Regional Thinking to Address Urban Coastal Resilience

Social Research: Discusses the development of strategic efforts and design concepts which aim to strengthen the coastal edge structures of the New York City metropolitan region, for protection from natural disasters brought by the increasing climate change as of September 2015. A team led by design firms WXY and West 8 have proposed a regional-scale

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Urban design as problem solving: design thinking in the rebuild by design resiliency competition

MIT: Investigates the design process through the case of Rebuild by Design in order to understand what would make it a useful alternative to improve disaster recovery processes and outcomes. This thesis finds that the competition design teams practice characteristics of design thinking. The resulting design ideas synthesize across regional, social, and economic systems, and

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