01/28/2019
Strategy+Business: Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast of the United States in 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and…
News & Events
01/25/2019
Curbed: Projects undertaken by the city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) have been notoriously plagued by protracted …
01/24/2019
Curbed: After years of community engagement about a resiliency plan to build a system of flood barriers and berms a…
01/24/2019
Gothamist: After millions of dollars and countless hours spent fielding input from Lower East Side and East Village residents, the …
01/24/2019
Politico: City officials admitted on Wednesday they failed to effectively communicate to residents the changes wrought by a last-minute over…
01/23/2019
The New York City Council Committee on Parks and Recreation jointly with the Committee on Environmental Protection will hold a hearing on&nb…
01/23/2019
WNYC: With rising sea levels, parts of Manhattan are at increased risk of severe flooding, like we saw with Sandy in 2013. One form of …
01/23/2019
Rebuild is part of a large team funded by a National Science Foundation Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Process…
01/22/2019
At the start of the 2018-2019 Academic Year, PennDesign launched its Urban Resilience Certificate. This school-wide Certificate is one …
01/22/2019
Arch Paper: Manhattan’s East River Park, home to sprawling fields, winding bike paths, and a landscaped promenade, was badly damag…
01/22/2019
The long-term maintenance of parks is a challenge in New York City, just as in many other cities around the world. To address shortages in f…
01/18/2019
NYTimes: The crowd at the recent meeting of Community Board 3 was agitated. Vaylateeba Jones, a 50-year Lower East Side resident and board o…