09/08/2025
NJ: The poll, which was conducted in partnership with Rebuild by Design and the Environmental Defense Fund, shows broad support across party…
Press
09/08/2025
FDU: With devastating floods becoming more common in New Jersey, three-quarters of voters (77 percent) now say that they are concerned about…
09/08/2025
Seventy-six percent of New Jersey residents support a $3 billion public bond for climate resilience infrastructure, according to a poll rele…
09/02/2025
Dezeen: The US Housing and Urban Development launched Rebuild by Design, under the America Competes Act, calling for international, interdis…
08/23/2025
NY Times: The superstorm prompted a novel initiative by the Obama administration to jump-start projects in and around New York that would fo…
08/17/2025
Wallpaper: Government responses to disasters have also resulted in architecture focused on future mitigation. In June 2013, just 8 months af…
08/11/2025
Inside Climate News: The forecast already has proof of being true, as Vermont is now one of the top 10 states in declaring federal disasters…
08/11/2025
The Cool Down: Elsewhere, policymakers and researchers are working on long-term solutions, such as updating building codes, restoring wetlan…
08/06/2025
NY Daily News: What if Pizza Rat told New Yorkers to check their subway route for possible closures before or during heavy rains. Mr. Met co…
08/05/2025
Interesting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil c…
07/29/2025
North Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design's Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disaster…
07/18/2025
Katie Couric: “Trump has come out with his guns blazing against FEMA,” New York University’s Rebuild By Design director Amy Chester tells us…
07/15/2025
Spectrum News TX: “FEMA is frontline aid for states across the country,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York Univers…
07/14/2025
The Hill: The nonpartisan organization Rebuild by Design notes that 40 states experienced 10 or more major disasters (those causing more tha…
07/13/2025
Times of San Diego: Rebuild by Design “put designers in the driver’s seat to come up with ideas as to how to protect Manhattan from the next…
07/11/2025
The Cool Down: New York City has a new elevated waterfront park, and the first section just opened to the public 13 years after Hurricane Sa…