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AMNY: NYC officials held two community meetings last week to discuss their newest plans to protect the East Side from storm surges. If this sounds familiar, it should. Meetings about such flood-protection efforts have gone on for nearly five years, since a broader project known as the Big U — stretching from West 57th Street […]

After Superstorm Sandy, reclaiming the waterfront is a many-layered thing Architecture Boston: When Superstorm Sandy hit the Lower East Side of Manhattan in October 2012, it changed the lens through which designers need to approach neighborhoods vulnerable to climate change. The storm surge combined with spring’s high tide created a flood event 4 feet higher than any

After Superstorm Sandy, Reclaiming the Waterfront is a Many-Layered Thing The Villager: On Monday, the city released new design renderings of the recently overhauled East River Park resiliency plan. The $1.45 billion project, which would cover from Montgomery St. to E. 13th St., would bury East River Park with 8 feet of dirt and rebuild a new park

Landscape Architecture Magazine: In the early 1920s, leaders of the Soviet Union had a communication problem: how to relay the abstract and complex communist ideology and economy to their scattered constituents across several nations, languages, and varying literacy levels. Enter the agit-train, a multimedia spectacle covered with constructivist supergraphics that drew crowds at every stop. The agit-trains carried

CT POST: BRIDGEPORT — As he exits the governor’s office, Dannel Malloy and his administration are giving $14.6 million worth of parting gifts to the city that helped elect him twice and recently ensured another Democrat — Ned Lamont — will take over as Connecticut’s chief executive. The state bond commission, which is chaired by the

ARCH DAILY: As part of a global, interdisciplinary effort to tackle climate change, architects are devoting resources towards optimizing the energy efficiency of buildings old and new. This effort is more than justified, given that buildings account for almost 40% of UK and US emissions. As awareness of the issue of climate change becomes more apparent each year, so too do the

CT POST: Rebecca French is blunt when she’s asked about hurricanes and Connecticut’s preparedness for them.“Have we figured out as a state, as a region, individually figured out how to not have damage from those storms? No!” she said. French ought to know. Until recently, she was with the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)