NY DAILY NEWS: by Amy Chester This week marks the eighth anniversary since Superstorm Sandy devastated our region. Perhaps understandably, as the country grapples with a new surge of COVID cases just a week before the election, this occasion has taken a back seat to the daily concerns of many. The pandemic reminds us, however, […]
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CAN NYC LEAD WITH NATURE IN ADDRESSING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS? THIS EVENT ALREADY OCCURED, YOU CAN WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: bit.ly/8yrGreen THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29th 2020 Virtual Event at 12pm EST Eight years have passed since Hurricane Sandy, and although NYC has invested in multiple planning efforts and policy changes, there is still a lot to do.
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THIS EVENT ALREADY OCCURED, YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE: bit.ly/8yrBIGU Eight years ago, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc along the East Coast and exposed the underlying vulnerabilities embedded in many communities in New York City. Since then, there has been a myriad of planning processes and visions for the various neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan. While it is
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Scenario planning allows for the testing of future paths and provides the useer with information and choices depening on how things change. This session will provide participants with an understanding of the process, examples where it has been applied, and it is why it particularly useful given may factors and assumptions are uncertain post-COVID-19. Panelists
About this Event In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved Puerto Rico’s Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Action Plan, which included the Puerto Rico By Design (“Program”), an innovative $700 million design competition program formed to create large-scale community driven infrastructure to
HOBOKEN – This month, the Hoboken City Council reviewed materials for a “change of purpose or use” for the Hudson River: Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge project – a comprehensive urban floodwater management strategy to reduce the flood risk from storm surge and rainfall flood events to flood-prone areas in Hoboken. The meeting also included general project updates, specific color and
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The Hoboken City Council will host a virtual public meeting on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to discuss the Rebuild by Design Hudson River coastal flood risk reduction project. The meeting will take place via zoom beginning at 6:00 p.m. on September 9th, and will be available to the public via the
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Throughout June and early July 2020, nearly 1000 participants from around the world tuned in to hear the Resilient by Design: Two Years Later webinar series, where we brought together experts on climate adaptation, urban design and community engagement to discuss the path from a drastically new normal to a resilient future. And for those of you
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The City: The path’s been cleared for a huge burial — and rebuilding — of Manhattan’s East River Park. New York Supreme Court Judge Melissa Crane on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the East Side Coastal Resiliency project, a multi-year effort to overhaul a stretch of the Lower East Side’s shore to protect the area from future flooding and
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The Village Sun: Residents fighting to save East River Park from being razed and rebuilt for a coastal-resiliency project suffered a painful blow Thursday as a judge ruled for the city. State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Crane denied the plaintiffs’ request for a restraining order to halt the scheme, clearing the way for work to
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