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Integrating components of resilient systems into cultural landscape management practices

Articles, Library Items

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

Articles, Library Items

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

Library Items, Master Thesis

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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