Monday, November 28, 2016 6:30P – 8:00PWashington Irving High School40 Irving PlaceNew York, NY 10003 Join the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency for an update of project progress. Learn more » All meeting locations are wheelchair accessible. Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese interpreters will be present at each of the community design update presentations. A Fujianese interpreter […]
Battle on Many Fronts SF Chronicle: The levee that rings Oakland International Airport seemingly has nothing in common with the salt-crusted stretch of flat land alongside Menlo Park’s Bayfront Park. One is a 7-foot-high line of boulders, an engineered barrier between the tidal flows that surge in through the Golden Gate twice daily and the
RISING REALITY: BAY AREA’S ANSWER TO SEA LEVEL RISE Read More »
Route Fifty: Nassau County, New York, located on Long Island, saw 1 percent of homes flood and 1.1 million residents lose power, when Superstorm Sandy hit in late October 2012. Nassau’s barrier islands, marshy lowlands and streams and rivers flowing to its bayfront render it susceptible to flooding from storms and poor drainage. So when Rebuild by
LEARNING FROM RESILIENT DESIGN PROJECTS IN THE WAKE OF SUPERSTORM SANDY Read More »
Politico: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, several federally sponsored projects sought to usher in new modes of urban design that protected against sea-level rise and re-imagined neighborhood design. Now, the projects in New York and New Jersey, chosen through a national competition called Rebuild by Design, face challenges related to implementation, according to a
ANALYSIS OF SIX REGIONAL RESILIENCY PROJECTS DETAILS IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES Read More »
Tuesday, November 1511:00A – 1:00PGeorgetown School of Continuing Studies640 Massachusetts Ave, N.W. Washington, DC Join us for a lunchtime discussion about the progress of the Hurricane Sandy Design Competition projects and the report, “Rebuilding with Resilience: Lessons from the Rebuild by Design Competition After Hurricane Sandy.” The State of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and the City
REBUILDING WITH RESILIENCE: DC POLICY DISCUSSION Read More »
Monday, November 146:30P – 8:30PWashington Irving High School40 Irving Place, NYC Join the City of New York in planning the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project – the federally and city-funded component of the BIG U. ESCR aims to reduce coastal flooding impacts, improve resiliency, and enhance the public waterfront along the East River between
COMMUNITY INPUT SESSION ASSER LEVY PARK AND MURPHYS BROTHERS PLAYGROUND Read More »
Rebuild joined Mexico City’s Chief Resilience Officer and Keystone consultancy to convene government officials and nonprofit organizations around the complexity of Xochimilco. Xochimilco is a region of Mexico City that is utilizing Rebuild’s research and design process to develop components of a master plan for the area. This convening explored the challenges and opportunities within
MEXICO CITY WORK CONTINUES Read More »
November 3, 2016 | 6:30-8:30PMInstitute for Public Knowledge20 Cooper Sq, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10003, USA NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Cities, Cultures, and Climate Change working group invite you to a discussion about climate, housing, and social justice in New York City, which asks: how can New York City to do two
“CARBONIFEROUS”: CLIMATE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN NYC Read More »
Sky Hall, INTEC Corporate HeadquartersToyama, Japan Rebuild will be showing its joint exhibition with 100 Resilient Cities in Toyama Japan for the Resilient Cities Summit. The goals of the summit include 1) Developing a strategic framework for future concerted resilience action among cities, Business Corporations and NGOs 2) An in-depth analysis of specific resilience issues
JOINT REBUILD/100RC EXHIBITION IN TOYAMA RESILIENT CITIES SUMMIT Read More »
Hudson Reporter: Mayor Dawn Zimmer, along with a city planner and a floodplain expert, presented ways to lower residents’ flood insurance and talked about anti-flooding building guidelines at a workshop for residents Tuesday night, Oct. 25, at the Wallace Elementary School. Jennifer Gonzalez, principal planner for the city, Brendan Kane of Flood Risk Evaluator, helped
HOBOKEN HOSTS WORKSHOP TO HELP RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND BUILDING OPTIONS Read More »
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