09/20/2021IDA FORCES CITY TO CONFRONT A LONG TO-DO LIST TO PREPARE FOR EXTREME CLIMATENY1: The City Council has a “crown jewel” piece of legislation it is ready to pass to help the city adapt urban infrastructure to the n…
09/20/2021HOW CAN NEW YORK CITY PREPARE FOR THE NEXT IDA? HERE’S A TO-DO LISTNew York Times: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York this month, the storm’s ferocity shocked the city. Even with met…
09/18/2021IDA FLOODED THEIR HOMES. NOW, RESIDENTS OF THIS DEVASTATED S.I. BLOCK WONDER, WHAT COMES NEXT?SI Advance: The rain fell viscously, bringing a torrent of water and debris to the bottom of Caswell Avenue in Graniteville. Cars were subme…
09/10/2021EXHIBIT EXPLORES HOW RISING SEA LEVELS THREATEN NYC & BEYONDGothamist: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region, it brought devastating flooding and caused the deaths of a…
09/04/2021IDA-DELUGED NYC DRAINAGE SYSTEM ALL BUT FORGOTTEN IN CLIMATE BATTLEThe City: The unprecedented rainfall that remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped Wednesday night made New York City’s climate vulnerabilities…
09/04/2021‘GOD’S WORK’: INSIDE THE BOOMING WORLD OF DISASTER RESPONSENBC News: J. Lee Driskell was already on the road from her home in Brooksville, Florida, to Louisiana in her camper — the “Hurric…
09/03/2021KEEPING NYC’S HEAD ABOVE WATER: LESSONS FROM THE DELUGENY Daily News: Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me, and I’ve spe…
09/01/2021ADAMS’ CLIMATE CHANGE PLANS ARE LARGELY UNKNOWNPOLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change. The effects of global warming are…
08/09/2021OSTRICHE CONTRO URAGANIIl Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni …
07/13/2021TRASHING THE COMMUNITY-BACKED BIG U: EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCE MOVES FORWARD DESPITE LOCAL OPPOSIArchinect: In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy crashed into the East Coast. Causing more than $70 billion in damage, the s…
06/21/2021ADAPTABILITY, PARTNERSHIPS KEY IN RESILIENT CITIES: PANELThe Straits Times: Last June, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, people in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States could go on safe…
05/17/2021USE THE JOBS PLAN AS A CATALYST FOR THE TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE WE WANT | OPINION BY AMY CHESTERNewsweek: President Joe Biden's announcement of a $2 trillion plan to rebuild infrastructure and reshape our economy was…
05/13/2021GROUND BROKEN ON $230 MILLION ‘REBUILD BY DESIGN’ FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECTNJ Digs: One of the largest infrastructure ventures in the history of New Jersey has finally kicked off after years of planning and further …
05/07/20218 YEARS AFTER SANDY, $230M HOBOKEN FLOOD PLAN GETS KICKOFFNBC: More than eight years after Superstorm Sandy pushed the Hudson River over its banks and left Hoboken residents without power or wa…
05/07/2021OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND ON REBUILD BY DESIGNHudson Reporter: The resilient infrastructure project, made possible by $230 million in Superstorm Sandy recovery funding from the U.S. Depa…
04/26/2021HOBOKEN, JERSEY CITY AND BAYONNE PART OF REGIONAL COALITION TO FIGHT URBAN FLOODINGTapinto: When large swathes of your cities were developed on land at or below sea level that had previously served as tidal wetland…