Newsweek: “The United States doesn’t have a good history with urban projects,” says architect Matthijs Bouw. As proof, he points to the multitude of grim public-housing projects across the country. Theorists believed courtyards enclosed by tall towers would enhance quality of life, but nobody asked the people who’d be living there. Today, students learn about
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The Monocle: On this week’s Monocle Podcast, we look at water-sensitive urban design, unpack our relationship with the ocean, discover the joys of cycling by the river and examine the devastating effects that water can have.
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May 25, 2016 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PS 6555 Page AveTottenville, NYUnited States Come give your input at the fourth Living Breakwaters CAC Meeting. Please join the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, the Living Breakwaters and Tottenville Dune design teams and the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) on May 25th at 7pm. All members of the public
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May 24, 2016 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Village of Rockville Centre Public Library221 N. Village Avenue and Library LaneRockville Centre, NYUnited States The first Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) for the Living with the Bay Long Island project will be on Tuesday, May 24. The Governors Office of Storm Recovery will bring CAC members together to discuss the
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May 15, 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Corner of Sprague and Surf AveTottenville, NYUnited States The SCAPE team invites Staten Island residents to spend a couple hours cleaning Conference House Park with them on May 15th. For more information about the project, click here. The Living Breakwaters project is an innovative infrastructure project that aims to
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Carbon Brief: Scientists, policymakers and businesspeople convened in Rotterdam this week for theAdaptation Futures 2016 conference, where they discussed the impacts of climate change and how the planet can prepare for them. With topics ranging from vulnerable deltas to degraded rainforests, Carbon Brief asked participants what they considered to be the main challenges of adapting to
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May 13, 2016 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Institute for Public Knowledge20 Cooper Square, 5th FloorNew York, NYUnited States Please join us for a panel discussion on “Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet,” published in a special issue of the Institute for Public Knowledge’s journal Public Culture. We are celebrating its release with
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May 10, 2016 – May 13, 2016 All Day Beurs-World Trade CenterBeursplein 37, 3011 AA Rotterdam, NetherlandsUnited States Adaptation Futures 2016 is the fourth PROVIA worldwide adaptation conference. It will be held in Rotterdam from 10 to 13 May 2016. The conference aims to move climate change adaptation forward by promoting solutions across sectors, borders and communities.
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The Institute for Public Knowledge released a special edition of its journal Public Culture on “Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet.” As part of the Rebuild By Design process, the researcher Daniel Aldana Cohen interviewed several members of the working group on the challenges and opportunities that cities increasingly face in
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City Lab: Berkeley, California, is a small city facing some large-scale challenges. There are the environmental: the Hayward fault line runs straight through the city, and the California drought and the impending effects of sea level rise on the San Francisco Bay pose threats of fires and floods. And there are the social: despite its progressive history, socioeconomic and
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