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COMMUNITY BOARD CONSIDERS FLOOD BARRIER PARK FOR MANHATTAN’S EAST SIDE

Curbed: This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposal to prevent catastrophic flooding while improving East River parkland spanning from Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side up to East 25th Street. The design is a collaboration between the city, AKRF, One Architecture, Mathews Nielsen Landscape

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IN-DEPTH: CAN HOUSTON APPLY NEW YORK’S BIG THINKING ON FLOOD PROJECTS?

Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding. But, can resilient design and protective infrastructure also be aesthetically pleasing? Or even become a city’s attraction? Hurricane Harvey dumped approximately 30,000 cubic yards of silt onto Buffalo Bayou Park; that’s comparable to about nine Olympic-sized swimming

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THIS IS HOW HIGH NYC’S SEA LEVELS WILL RISE IF WE DON’T TAKE CLIMATE ACTION

Inhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the message Studio Roosegaarde vividly brought last week to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City. The studio’s light display, Waterlicht New York, showed the height of water levels during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Waterlicht,

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BOOK LAUNCH: TOO BIG. REBUILD BY DESIGN’S TRANSFORMATIVE RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Friday, March 235:30PMRebuild by Design 20 Cooper Sq, 2nd Fl., New York, NY  Join authors Henk Ovink, Jelte Boeijanga and special guests for the launch of TOO BIG. Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change. How will society confront climate change? Faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms, we all know that what worked

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GREEN DESIGN OF BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITIES CREATES HEALTHIER, SUSTAINABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENTS

Mississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way things are done to not only preserve the environment, but the value of the owner’s investments. Green architecture as a phrase may be a fad, said Michael Berk, AIA, director of the School

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