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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

Hudson Reporter: Hoboken officials and engineers met with the public on Thursday, Feb. 18 and unveiled three new plans to protect the city from future storm surges, two months after residents criticized earlier plans for floodwalls that might rise as high as 12 feet high and cut into residential neighborhoods. A packed house of over