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Mass Transit Magazine: The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge — a competition that will engage regional innovators, community members, policy makers, designers, architects, developers and others in developing creative, realistic and long-lasting infrastructure solutions for climate and […]

The Architects Newspaper: This week, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $4.6 million to the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge team, a collection of San Francisco Bay Area organizations looking to use a public competition to develop approaches for fortifying the region’s infrastructure against the growing threat of climate change and sea level rise. The funds will allow this collection of municipal

Route Fifty: The Bay Area in California just got its own urban resilience design challenge, with The Rockefeller Foundation on Monday granting local leaders $4.6 million to kickstart the search for infrastructure solutions to climate change. Resilient by Design picks up where Rebuild by Design’s award-winning Hurricane Sandy Design Competition left off, helping San Francisco and surrounding cities address climate, seismic,

Next City: A contest inviting designers, policy-makers and developers to imagine climate change solutions for the San Francisco area will open for submissions in April, the Rockefeller Foundation announced Monday. The Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge is modeled after a similar New York-area contest begun in 2013. That one was pioneered by the Department of Housing

The San Francisco Chronicle: The Bay Area will soon be a laboratory that tests how urban regions can prepare for the likelihood of sea level rise. That’s the aim of a $5.8 million design competition being announced this week that will select 10 multidisciplinary teams and assign each a different bayside setting. Each team will have

The Guardian: Ten years ago, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg released a plan to create what he called “the first environmentally sustainable 21st-century city”. The blueprint, known as PlaNYC and released on Earth Day, outlined more than 100 projects and policies to create that sustainable city by 2030. It set a precedent for local action on climate change; cities around