Thursday, December 1, 20166:30P – 8:30PGouverneur Health Center227 Madison St.New York, NY 10002 Come join the Project Team to learn about the updates for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project as it related to the area between Montgomery St. and East Houston.
As communities affected by Hurricane Sandy have begun to implement the winning proposals from the Hurricane Sandy Design Competition, their experience navigating various policy and regulatory hurdles can inform current and future resilience initiatives. Read the report “Rebuilding with Resilience: Lessons from the Rebuild by Design Competition After Hurricane Sandy” to learn about the findings. Media Archive: The Full Report | The Summary:
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American Society of Landscape Architects: “We don’t know what resilience policy will look like in the new administration. There are lots of unknowns, but we can take solace in what we do know,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, at an event in Washington, D.C. that provided updates on how the six teams devising
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Tuesday, November 29th6:30PM – 8:00PMChinatown Cornerstone YMCA at Two Bridges Neighborhood Council 286 South Street New York, NY 10002 The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project (LMCR) project team will be meeting with the Community Board 3 LMCR Task Forces to provide an update on the project to their members. This meeting is open to the public.
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Tuesday, November 296:00 – 7:30 p.m. at 7 Middle Street, Downtown Bridgeport Stop by the Resilient Bridgeport design center for a conversation with the design team and to hear updates on the pilot project. Light refreshments provided.
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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
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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
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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
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