June 3, 2016 9:15 am – 7:00 pm Rebuild by Design20 Cooper SquareNew York, NYUnited States You are invited to celebrate and reflect with Rebuild by Design on Friday, June 3rd from 9:15a – 7:00p. This day will look back at the two years since the announcement of the Rebuild by Design Competition results and […]
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NewsWorks: Following Superstorm Sandy, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan launched a design competition. Now, two years after the competition began, the Rebuild by Design success has been a model for other processes. Amy Chester, managing director of Rebuild by Design, joined NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller to discuss the project. Read more…
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City Metric: In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the north eastern United States. The storm plunged many of the region’s cities into darkness, left millions without electricity and several dozen dead. Much of the worst damage done by the storm was the result of flooding, when waves three feet higher than had ever been recorded
At last week’s Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting, the design team and the NYS Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR), presented an update on the Tottenville Shoreline Protection Project and Living Breakwaters project. The latest data collection efforts – including a time-lapse video of the shoreline, analysis of the water levels on site, hydrodynamic modeling and ecological design progress – were
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The San Francisco Chronicle: Fifty years ago, Bay Area residents rallied around the call to save San Francisco Bay. Public action on an unprecedented scale reversed development tides that for more than a century had covered shallow waters with land for industrial parks and housing tracts, roadways and garbage dumps. Now the challenge is more
Newsweek: “The United States doesn’t have a good history with urban projects,” says architect Matthijs Bouw. As proof, he points to the multitude of grim public-housing projects across the country. Theorists believed courtyards enclosed by tall towers would enhance quality of life, but nobody asked the people who’d be living there. Today, students learn about
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The Monocle: On this week’s Monocle Podcast, we look at water-sensitive urban design, unpack our relationship with the ocean, discover the joys of cycling by the river and examine the devastating effects that water can have.
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May 25, 2016 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PS 6555 Page AveTottenville, NYUnited States Come give your input at the fourth Living Breakwaters CAC Meeting. Please join the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, the Living Breakwaters and Tottenville Dune design teams and the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) on May 25th at 7pm. All members of the public
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May 24, 2016 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Village of Rockville Centre Public Library221 N. Village Avenue and Library LaneRockville Centre, NYUnited States The first Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) for the Living with the Bay Long Island project will be on Tuesday, May 24. The Governors Office of Storm Recovery will bring CAC members together to discuss the
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May 15, 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Corner of Sprague and Surf AveTottenville, NYUnited States The SCAPE team invites Staten Island residents to spend a couple hours cleaning Conference House Park with them on May 15th. For more information about the project, click here. The Living Breakwaters project is an innovative infrastructure project that aims to
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