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Hudson Reporter: Three years ago on Oct. 29, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc in Hoboken. 500 million gallons of water flooded the streets and 90 percent of the city lost power. In a release this morning the city says its making progress to protect the city from future storms with flood-resistant parks and a city-wide microgrid. […]

The White House:  Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the Administration has invested in hard-hit communities to ensure that they don’t just rebuild, but rebuild smarter. Three years ago today, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Northeast, devastating countless homes, businesses, and communities in its path. Over the past three years, and indeed, since President Obama

The New York Times: Read Amy Chester’s opinion piece, reflecting on Hurricane Sandy three years later. After Hurricane Sandy crippled the New York City region, leaving wounds that still remain, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Rockefeller Foundation began Rebuild by Design, which has helped coordinate between the government, the philanthropic and

The New Yorker: Hurricane Patricia, which hit southwestern Mexico last weekend, was the largest recorded hurricane to make landfall off the Pacific, but it was not the only historic storm this October. At the beginning of the month, a tropical weather system formed southwest of Bermuda and intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, with heavy

Magazine of the Urban Land Institute:  With sea levels rising and catastrophic storms and flooding becoming more frequent and severe, waterfront cities need to reinvent themselves to protect land, buildings, infrastructure, and people. At the 2015 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, panelists discussed projects that tackle these challenges in ways that enhance public safety and

Blog post, The Rockefeller Foundation: Cities around the world face new challenges every day, a reality being exacerbated by  climate change: droughts last longer; storms are more severe; rising sea levels threaten to reclaim coastal land. Unprecedented extreme weather events are becoming more and more commonplace. Yet, despite the urgency, we must not develop solutions that lack

The Architects Newspaper:  Rebuild by Design moves ahead as local and state governments allocate funds and issue RFPs. When Hurricane Sandy brought catastrophic destruction to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut three years ago, government officials and designers seized the opportunity to shape space at an unprecedented scale through Rebuild by Design, a 2013 competition