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Curbed NY: In the seven years since Hurricane Sandy, the conversation about how cities must address climate change has changed. It’s no longer a question if the built environment will have to adapt, but how. Last week, Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary in the Obama Administration, and landscape architect Kate Orff, spoke with journalist Nicholas Lehmann about their experience working on Rebuild by […]

The Guardian: Jainey Bavishi is all business as she takes off from Battery Park to walk the perimeter of lower Manhattan. It’s a muggy afternoon, a breeze barely lifting off of the New York Harbor, after days of heavy rain. She maneuvers throngs of tourists, construction workers and suits streaming out of office towers for lunch as she

NY Post: A city plan to temporarily destroy a beloved Manhattan park in a bid to prevent future flooding is so hated, hundreds of activists “buried” the proposal in a mock funeral Saturday. “Bury the plan, not the park!” was the battle cry from the more than 300 protesters who turned out to save East River

CT Post: Bridgeport has seen the face of climate change and it is wet. The city’s South End had a gulp of that when it was swamped by Tropical Storm Irene 2011, followed by Sandy a year later — both likely intensified by climate change. Among the hardest hit — low income and public housing neighborhoods.

France 24: This coming spring the City of New York will start the construction of the BIG U – a protective system to prevent flooding in Lower Manhattan. “We need to create a barrier above the height of the future flood,” said Simon David, one of the architects behind the project. “It changes according to the specific conditions