Max

Sustainability: Presents an analytical framework to study institutional capacity building by international resilience programs, focusing on intellectual, social and political capital. The central case is the development and implementation of the Water as Leverage (WaL) program in Semarang, Indonesia.

Visual Communication: Presents and demonstrates an analytic framework that enables a systematic visual analysis of landscape design representations. The framework is demonstrated by using two projects from Rebuild by Design, a participatory transdisciplinary design competition organized in the New York City area as examples.

Journal of Landscape Architecture: Focuses on how the concept of ‘resilience districts’ for urban areas vulnerable to coastal flooding can improve resilience of metropolitan areas. The paper details a resilience districting strategy for the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. It culminates with a generalizable urban planning and design framework for protecting critical infrastructure, ‘thickening’ regional soft

Political Geography: Uses Foucaultian work on problematization to explore the urban resilience paradigm which emerged in the wake of 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, which dramatically disrupted New York City. The paper used discourse and media analysis to examine government commissions and proposals, and site observation at panels and conferences. It highlights the inherent political nature in

Scenario Journal: Explores a series of board games the author produced over five years to help drive engagement, education, and decisions around climate resilience planning, including for the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge.

Journal of Urban Planning: Provides an overview of Rebuild’s projects and process.

Journal of Landscape Architecture: Focuses on the use of visual discourse in the Rebuild by Design participatory process, and explores how it is used as discursive materializations of power and knowledge.

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences: The paper examines the post disaster history of a proposed resilience infrastructure capital project, the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, part of a larger proposed resilience infrastructure design called The Big U.