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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

The City of Bridgeport hosted two meetings last week. At the first meeting, the team presented the project overview, initial strategy, and project concepts at Marina Village, a property at the heart of the project area. At the second, they presented these same strategy and project concepts to residents and stakeholders from throughout the study

Resilient Bridgeport has released new materials such as the first broadsheet–– an interactive document that includes public comments and highlights from the Resilient Bridgeport Atlas; historic building types and details; critical species of coastal Connecticut; and maps showing how the coastline of the city has changed over time. The team has also been developing and costing project alternatives

Labor and industry leaders applaud new AECOM and Rebuild by Design’s report indicating that the $3 billion environmental bond act would stimulate New York’s economy and strengthen the state’s green infrastructure NEW YORK (Jan. 25, 2021) — AECOM, the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, and Rebuild by Design, a leading advocate for resilient infrastructure, today released a new

Read about the Rebuild by Design Hurricane Sandy Competition in the newly released book. In response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastation the Northeast United States, U.S. HUD Secretary Donovan launched Rebuild by Design. Today, Rebuild by Design is excited to launch our new book, telling the story about the approach, the research, the collaborators, and the comprehensive projects that

MANHATTAN – THE BIG U has been divided into multiple sections for implementation, which have different implementing agencies and have different construction schedules. See below for information on each: East Side Coastal Resilience (ESCR), East 25th St. to Montgomery St. – The City is finalizing the construction firm for the first phase of the BIG U, named the East Side Coastal

The State Route 37 (SR37) Public Access Study is an outgrowth of the Grand Bayway Concept developed by the Common Ground Team as part of Resilient by Design. Funded through a grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), with matching funds from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and project management by the Bay Area

Originally named “Resilient South City” during the Resilient by Design Challenge, the current focus of the project team is on habitat restoration and public access along Colma Creek and better connections to the Bay shoreline. Following the Resilient Bay Area challenge, two grants have been awarded to support this phase of the project, an SB1 Grant