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Rebuild completed its engagement with the City of Oakland one year ago, developing guidelines for more effective engagement with community organizations. This laid the groundwork for how the City engages the community on service design through the newly formed Civic Design Lab, which was created to make public service as effective and accessible as possible. Read about […]

 Contact: Amy Chester (achester@rebuildbydesign.org) On 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild By Design and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU Release Study on Neighborhood and Community Impacts of Hurricane SandyResearch Finds Community-Driven Relocation Supports Resident Recovery   NEW YORK– Five years following Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild By Design (RBD) – in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities – and the Institute for Public

Last month, the OPSI published a case study of Rebuild by Design, highlighting its innovative approach to resilience. The OECD has developed an Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) which collects and analyses examples and shared experiences of public sector innovation to provide practical advice to countries on how to make innovations work. Learn more

Rebuild by Design–in partnership with the City of Oakland, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and Streetwyze–is developing new principles for community engagement to identify and address the needs of residents and communities. To facilitate this process, we kicked-off an engagement workshop series with Oakland this month. “Building a Resilient Oakland: It Takes a Town” is a four part series

On February 6, we held our third workshop with the City of Oakland and partners West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) and Streetwyze. City and community leaders joined together to begin to design an engagement strategy that takes a community-centered approach to determining how the city can respond to the critical challenge of addressing Sea Level

Mayor de Blasio launched the OneNYC plan during an event at THE POINT CDC – a key collaborator in the winning Hunts Point Lifelines project – placing resilience at the forefront of NYC’s strategy for the future. OneNYC highlights both Hunts Point Lifelinesand the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (the funded portion of the Big U), and is aimed at securing

New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) hosted a community meeting where community members participated in a workshop designed to advance decision-making on a pilot project. Members of the community discussed the timeline for the decision-making process, and necessary criteria to be considered for the pilot project. As the Hunts Point Lifelines Project progresses, EDC will post updates online.

New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC) has released a Consultant Services RFP for the Hunts Point Peninsula Resiliency Evaluation and Pilot Project of the Hunts Point Lifelines project. EDC will be hiring a Consultant for engineering, planning, feasibility and economic analysis, environmental planning, design, cost estimating and public engagement services to advance efforts to make

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to fortify and enhance the region’s food supply network with “a major financial commitment that will make the site resilient and sustainable, improving New York’s readiness for natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy.” The news comes as the Hunts Point Lifelines project enters its first stages of implementation, and

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the kickoff off a $60 million “Living Breakwaters” barrier that will provide critical defenses against coastal erosion and grow the natural habitat for finfish, shellfish and crustations on the south shore of Staten Island. The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery will today begin gathering data to assist in construction of