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The Low Down:In the community, there are many unanswered questions about the city’s sudden decision to overhaul the plan for a flood barrier along the East River. Now the City Council has scheduled an oversight hearing to learn more about the decision to scrap the original proposal, which involved years of community outreach. The joint […]

The Villager: East River Park is expected to undergo massive changes in the coming years. As early as March 2020, the city could begin burying the park with 8 feet of soil, closing it for three-and-a-half years, in order to rebuild the park anew to protect thousands of nearby residents from coastal flooding and storm surges.

Hudson Reporter: Several public meetings and workshops were held to discuss possible features of the Rebuild by Design project. The project, funded with $230 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, calls for construction of flood-resistant structures and storm-water control systems to protect areas vulnerable to flooding along Weehawken Cove to the north,

Metropolis: “Your urgency is not my urgency.” This was the rebuke from Marquita Price of the East Oakland Collective (EOC) at a design critique for the Resilient by Design (RBD) Bay Area Challenge this past March. Our team, the All Bay Collective, was working with EOC and other community-based organizations to champion racial and economic equity as part

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