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The City presented East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) preliminary designs to Manhattan Community Board 3’s Parks Committee, where CB3 committee endorsed the project with conditions. The committee urged revised design of curved high fencing atop flood walls and pedestrian overpasses, improved lighting, “aesthetically pleasing” modifications to the proposed flood barrier and other hard infrastructure, sustainable […]

At the end of 2016, community members from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, East Village and Stuyvesant Town/ Peter Cooper Village met with city officials and planners during a series of meetings to view and comment on concept plans for flood risk reduction infrastructure along the East River waterfront from East 14th Street to East 25th

The NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and NYC Department of Design and Construction are hosting three community workshops to discuss the east river waterfront redesign following Hurricane Sandy. These workshops will build upon the planning undertaken as part of HUD’s Rebuild by Design competition. Interpreters will be present at all workshops. Tuesday, July 28

The NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and NYC Department of Design and Construction hosted three community workshops this week, and discussed the East River Waterfront redesign following Hurricane Sandy. Each workshop featured an interactive model of the project that members of the community provided feedback on related to their concerns and priorities for designing the project. The workshops were

New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection posted its draft Citizen Outreach Plan for the Hudson River Project (“Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge“). The State is accepting public comments on the document until August 2. Comments can be submitted by emailing rbd-hudsonriver@dep.nj.gov, or by mail to David Rosenblatt at the address below. Dave Rosenblatt Office of Flood Hazard Risk Reduction 501 East

This month, Rebuild and Ciudad Juarez’s Resilience Office hosted a community feedback session for the Juan Gabriel Plaza Design Competition. Out of the nine teams that submitted design proposals for the plaza, the top three respondents were chosen by a jury to present their concepts to local residents and businesses, there they will share their

Congratulations to HUD for winning the annual Walter Gellhorn Innovation Award for the Rebuild by Design competition, recognized as a government-wide model for its funding innovations, collaborative governance, enhanced engagement, and innovative best practices. The Walter Gellhorn Innovation Award is designed to recognize the federal agency with the best model practice that can be adopted government-wide. 

The American Planning Association has awarded the BIG U with the prestigious National Planning Excellence Award for Urban Design and Living Breakwaters with the National Planning Achievement Award for Environmental Planning.

This month, the project team shared project components and alternatives with South End residents and other stakeholders. The event was organized as a “virtual site tour,” with stations set up so that participants could follow the path of water from upland areas down to Seaside Park and the Long Island Sound. At each station, the

Bridgeport, CT –  The Resilient Bridgeport Think Tank (the Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Engagement) met to respond to the the proposed outreach plan and schedule, beginning with the next community workshop which will take place on June 10th. The design team convened for an internal workshop at the Yale Urban Design Workshop to finalize the