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COME CELEBRATE A SPECIAL ISSUE OF PUBLIC CULTURE WITH REBUILD

May 13, 2016 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Institute for Public Knowledge20 Cooper Square, 5th FloorNew York, NYUnited States Please join us for a panel discussion on “Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet,” published in a special issue of the Institute for Public Knowledge’s journal Public Culture. We are celebrating its release with […]

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ADAPTATION FUTURES 2016

May 10, 2016 – May 13, 2016 All Day Beurs-World Trade CenterBeursplein 37, 3011 AA Rotterdam, NetherlandsUnited States Adaptation Futures 2016 is the fourth PROVIA worldwide adaptation conference. It will be held in Rotterdam from 10 to 13 May 2016. The conference aims to move climate change adaptation forward by promoting solutions across sectors, borders and communities.

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SPECIAL ISSUE RELEASE | CLIMATE CHANGE & THE FUTURE OF CITIES

The Institute for Public Knowledge released a special edition of its journal Public Culture on “Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet.” As part of the Rebuild By Design process, the researcher Daniel Aldana Cohen interviewed several members of the working group on the challenges and opportunities that cities increasingly face in

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A COMMUNITY-MINDED APPROACH TO RESILIENCE IN BERKELEY

City Lab: Berkeley, California, is a small city facing some large-scale challenges. There are the environmental: the Hayward fault line runs straight through the city, and the California drought and the impending effects of sea level rise on the San Francisco Bay pose threats of fires and floods. And there are the social: despite its progressive history, socioeconomic and

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REBUILD BY DESIGN FEATURED AT “CREATION FROM CATASTROPHE: HOW ARCHITECTURE REBUILDS COMMUNITIES”

March 7, 2016 – April 28, 2016 All Day The Architecture Gallery, RIBA66 Portland PlaceLondon, W1B 1ADUnited Kingdom As part of RIBA’s Creation from Catastrophe: How Architecture Rebuilds Communities, Rebuild by Design will be on view. The display will feature the innovative designs from the competition that were designed for communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy. About the exhibition: The destruction of

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CREATION FROM CATASTROPHE: HOW ARCHITECTURE REBUILDS COMMUNITIES

April 12, 20167:00 pm – 8:45 pm The Architecture Gallery, RIBA66 Portland PlaceLondon, W1B 1ADUnited States As part of RIBA’s Creation from Catastrophe: How Architecture Rebuilds Communities, join Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Henk Ovink,  OMA’s Reinier de Graaf and Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design, discuss new ways

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CONSTRUCTIVE CONFLICT: CAN DESIGN COMPETITIONS MAKE CITIES STRONGER?

The Guardian: Just as musicians can build their year around festival appearances, architects can now fill their calendar with deadlines for design competitions. The international contest is an increasingly fashionable way of generating new ideas, forging reputations and getting some interesting things built. We have competitions to thank for New York’s 9/11 Ground Zero Memorial and Manhattan’s High

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IS THE TIDE AGAINST HOBOKEN’S FLOOD PLAN SUBSIDING?

NJ.com: Consultants and local and state officials pushing for a $230 million federally funded plan to resist Hurricane Sandy-like flooding have been gradually breaking down the public’s resistance to the plan itself, inundating residents with meetings, online presentations and solicitations for their views on how the plan should look. And judging from the latest gathering

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