Business Insider: Today, more than five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, the five boroughs are still recovering from the storm. Sandy did $19 billion in damage to NYC, and the rate of development along the city’s coastlines has only increased. New York now has more residents living in high-risk flood zones than any […]
April 21-24, 2018Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterNew Orleans, Louisiana APA’s 2018 National Planning Conference is the premier planning event of the year. NPC18 will bring together the hottest topics, the latest tools, and the leading voices with something new to say. Join the conversation about current issues, trends, challenges, and solutions that are shaping planning today. Learn
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The six student design teams in the Ted Turner Resilience Corridor Challenge participated in a community engagement event to gather feedback on their initial design ideas and concepts. Approximately 90 people attended the event at the Center for Civic Innovation, where teams used the unique, interactive ways to receive feedback that they had created. Later in the
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Wednesday, April 117:00PMLoeb Auditorium301 E 17th StNew York, New York 10003 The Full Board will review the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project along with a number of other agenda items. Click here for more information>>
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Port of San Francisco: Islais Creek, spilling out into the Southern Bay by Pier 80, was nominated by the Port and City of San Francisco and selected by the Resilient By Design Initiative, as one of nine Bay Area sites to be “re-imagined” with help from community members and other stakeholders for a future filled with
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Business Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas. To make matters worse, researchers say that parts of the Bay Area are sinking, which could wipe out between 20 and 165 square miles of coastal land, along with the communities that live there. Instead of fighting the
Thursday, April 55PMCenter for Civic Innovation115 M.L.K. Jr Dr SW (3rd Floor)Atlanta, GA 30303 Please join us on April 5th to learn about and give feedback on the preliminary designs proposed by six local university teams for the Ted Turner Drive Resilience Corridor Competition. The City of Atlanta, in partnership with Central Atlanta Progress, 100
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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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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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Tuesday, March 276:30PMP.S. 20166 Essex Street New York, NY The Mayor’s Office of Recovery & Resiliency will give a presentation to the full board on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. More details here>>
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