The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Hudson River Project team asked community members to identify preferences for design of the parks, sidewalks, alleys, urban streets, and green corridors through which a flood barrier will be constructed in Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City starting in 2019. At the meeting, Hoboken Mayor Bhalla reported that the […]
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The Architect’s Newsletter: The year-long Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge ideas competition has sought to utilize community-led ecological design to “develop innovative solutions that will strengthen [the Bay Area’s] resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding, and earthquakes.” Last week, the nine teams working with local communities and organizations on the competition
Thursday, May 17 – Friday, May 18 Throughout the Bay Area Challenge, proactive planning to safeguard our Bay Area community from the impacts of climate change has presented an opportunity to reimagine our relationship to the natural world and to each other. As we invest in resilience, we must seek transformational change toward true, collective,
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Last week, Resilient by Design came together to champion nine newly released, innovative solutions to address sea level rise and other climate-related flood impacts. The solutions put forward by Design Teams, community groups and Bay Area residents work to increase social resilience. This year-long Bay Area Challenge unveiled the solutions during a two-day Summit drawing
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FastCompany: When the oldest restaurant in San Francisco was built in 1861, it sat on the waterfront of a creek, serving seafood caught in the neighborhood. The restaurant hasn’t moved, but the creek was buried underground in a culvert nearby, and the marsh that once surrounded the area has been developed, built on debris from the 1906 earthquake.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Protecting the Bay Area from sea level rise isn’t just about building seawalls. It’s a chance to reshape industry, parks and communities to fit our modern lives. That’s according to a high-profile group of international architects, engineers and climate experts who have spent the past year developing far-reaching visions for how Bay Area
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Wed, May 16, 20185:00 PM – 7:00 PM PSTPort of San FranciscoPier 1 The Embarcadero, Bayside RoomSan Francisco, CA 94111 Join Henk Ovink, Dutch Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, for the launch of his new book: TOO BIG Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change. Mr. Rhett, Chief Operating Officer of the
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The Ted Turner Drive Resilience Corridor Challenge concluded on May 7th with the Atlanta Resilience Office and Council member Amir Farokhi awarding the winners and finalists. The University of Georgia’s student team won the design challenge for their work on the “Spark” Strategy Plan, which emphasized increasing the cultural, ecological, and economic benefits of Ted Turner
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Houston Chronicle:Yes, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston hard, harder than ever before. The storm showcased all Houston’s vulnerabilities – manmade, natural and human. It was like a magnifying glass, enlarging reality and demanding a novel approach – novel for Houston, maybe, but not completely novel to the world and not so novel to my country, the
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Patch.com: Floating cities and wetland buffers designed to tackle the threat of flooding and sea level rise are two ideas that student leaders presented at the first-ever Y-PLAN Youth Challenge Regional Summit in Berkeley. The Summit served as a continuation of a youth-led movement to re-imagine communities in the Bay Area to be stronger and safer
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