WNYC: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, founder of New York Times initiative Headway, which is focused on big global challenges and paths to progress, and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about the work Hoboken has done since the flooding during Sandy to handle storm surges and heavy downpours. Listen Here>>>
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dezeen: The increasing need to protect cities from environmental hazards is a chance to transform communities for the better, says Rebuild By Design managing director Amy Chester in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Rebuild by Design began in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in New York as a competition run by the US government to instigate projects that would
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf courses may come to mind. MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Kate Orff has a grander and more ecologically ambitious vision. Read More>>>
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Fox weather: Superstorm Sandy pounded New York and New Jersey 11 years ago but communities are still rebuilding and hardening towns and cities against a repeat of the tragic loss to historic floods. Amy Chester of Rebuild by Design shows FOX Weather ecological and infrastructure changes that will build up flood protection for New Jersey’s
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AP: HOBOKEN, N.J. A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy ’s destruction, two of the largest flood control projects designed to protect the densely populated cities of New Jersey that lie just outside New York City finally got underway Wednesday. A project in Hoboken, which was inundated by flooding during
Documented: Most 311 flood-related calls the day of the storm were coming from areas with high populations of foreign-born residents On Sept. 29, New York City was hit with a powerful storm that left many streets and homes flooded, the subway system paralyzed, and the city ground to a halt. Over 1,900 calls were made
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