This summer, Rebuild issued a request for proposals to select a partner to explore and recommend potential stewardship models with funding mechanisms that could enhance the long-term operating budget of resilience parks while also addressing issues of equity using the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project as a test-case. Rebuild selected the Trust for Public Land and James […]
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The Resilient by Design pop-up storefront was opened during the recent Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. The space held an exhibition on the Bay Area Challenge final proposals and hosted a number of panels, receptions, and a Resilience Game Night. Released in conjunction with these events, the Participation+Action+Education Toolkit “Connection People to Climate Risks”
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NY1: Winds and rain battered Puerto Rico. Many say the preparedness before, and recovery since, is offensively lacking. Mayor Bill de Blasio even suggests what Puerto Ricans look like skewed the Trump administration’s concern. “The response to Puerto Rico has to be seen for the not only the failure that it was, but for the
CITY MARKS MARIA ANNIVERSARY AMID MAJOR DELAYS WITH POST-SANDY REBUILDING Read More »
Based on input from a public meeting in June, the Resilient Bridgeport team began community outreach with one-to-one meetings for the creation of a “Resilience Trail” in the South End. Originally envisioned as a Resilience Center in a single building, the Resilience Trail concept expands the footprint of the center to the entire neighborhood. It
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New York City has committed an additional $26 million to the Hunts Point Resiliency Project, for a $71 million total budget. The additional funds will address community concerns regarding the initial plan to use combustion turbine engines to generate backup electricity for the Food Distribution Center. The City now plans a combined heat and power
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Potential designs for the flood-risk reduction barrier to be constructed in Hoboken and Weehawken will go on display at an open house October 4th at the Northwest Resiliency Park. These designs show landscape architecture and urban design features of the barrier, including park space and recreation areas. Renderings will be displayed in the community as construction is
HUDSON RIVER PROJECT DESIGNS TO BE DISPLAYED Read More »
GOSR has procured five architecture-engineering firms to design 12 flood-risk reduction projects within the Living with the Bay program area on Long Island. Four of those projects–Smith Pond, East Rockaway High School/Lister Park, the Greenway, and the Coast Field Station/Marsh Restoration–have reached the 30% design level, a critical benchmark in the design process. In addition,
SEVERAL LONG ISLAND PROJECTS REACH DESIGN MILESTONE Read More »
The Architect’s Newspaper: Sorry aquarium lovers, but the two massive fish tanks at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island in New York City are no more. The tanks have been drained, the tropical fish distributed to private collectors, and an installation detailing SCAPE Landscape Architecture’s Living Breakwaters project has gone up in their stead. The change isn’t permanent. The
SCAPE HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF OYSTERS ON STATEN ISLAND Read More »
SF Chronicle: The formal events at this week’s Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco are closed to the public, but anyone can visit a related pop-up that occupies an unleased storefront at the foot of Rincon Hill. That’s where you’ll find nine detailed visions showing how the likelihood of sea level rise can be seen
DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR A WORLD OF RISING SEA LEVELS: A SHOWCASE Read More »
The Mercury News: California’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have made the state an icon in the fight against climate change, a status validated by Gov. Jerry Brown hosting the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next month. Yet despite its success, California is only slowly beginning to take action. Across California, there’s
NEXT CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR MUST FOCUS ON CLIMATE ADAPTATION Read More »
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