June 10, 2016 All Day University of Bridgeport Student Center, Great Room244 University AveBridgeport, CTUnited States An open workshop and a brownbag lunch discussion at the design center in downtown will target stakeholder who work in, but may not live in, the study area. That evening, moving into the core of the South End study […]
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June 8, 2016 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Ponce City Market675 Ponce de Leon Ave NEAtlanta, GAUnited States Where developers, government, and citizens are working together to resolve urban infrastructure questions, you’ll find the most advanced results including jobs, urban sustainability, and leaders who are embracing new models for developing their city. Join MA, Metropolis
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Industry Leaders: As a part of an initiative to revive parts of the coast hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, BIG and Dutch firm ‘One Architecture’ co-developed the Big U Scheme, a socially sustainable flood defense system for New York city. Internationally acclaimed Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was built on one powerful notion:
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The Architects Newspaper: On Friday, Rebuild By Design (RBD) hosted a conference at NYU to check in on the progress on the region’s ten coastal resiliency projects. Landscape architects, engineers, architects, and government officials representing the six initial winners and four finalists spoke on behalf of their team’s ideas. Although each project is different in scale and scope (factors which correlate, not surprisingly,
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ENCA: NEW YORK – Imagine a world that’s run out of fresh water. A world where it’s so hot, crops can no longer grow. Where rising sea levels and flooding destroy our homes. This could be our future if global temperatures continue to rise at the current rapid rate. According to Nasa, 2015 was the
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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
