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The Hudson Reporter:  What will Hoboken’s flood protection look like? Planners expect to make renderings public by June but residents first need to provide input. The City of Hoboken will host three workshops in April to discuss a finalized plan as part of the $230 million federally-funded Rebuild by Design Hudson River project spurred in

Washington Monthly: In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy rampaged through the East Coast, bringing 80-mile-an-hour winds that destroyed homes, downed trees and left more than 5 million people in the mid-Atlantic region without power. The total damage was estimated to be $75 billion – one of the costliest natural disasters ever faced in the United States. In

Al Jazeera: After Hurricane Sandy, the city’s plans to mitigate future disaster have underscored its social and economic inequities.  On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into the heart of New York City, inundating lower Manhattan with water and wreaking

Politico New York: Read a featured article about Resilience by Design University (RBD U). There are two governing realities that preoccupy the world of urban design in the 21st century: People are moving to cities en masse and those cities are often on the front lines of climate change. “It’s an urban world and part