04/27/2018BAY AREA STUDENTS OFFER SOLUTIONS TO SEA LEVEL RISEPatch.com: Floating cities and wetland buffers designed to tackle the threat of flooding and sea level rise are two ideas that student …
04/26/2018MANHATTAN PLANS TO BUILD A MASSIVE $1 BILLION WALL AND PARK TO GUARD AGAINST THE NEXT SUPERSTORMBusiness Insider: Today, more than five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, the five boroughs are still recovering from the …
04/09/2018RESILIENT BY DESIGN SELECTS ISLAIS CREEKPort of San Francisco: Islais Creek, spilling out into the Southern Bay by Pier 80, was nominated by the Port and City of San Francisco…
04/09/2018ARCHITECTS DESIGNED THESE FLOATING VILLAGES THAT WOULD WITHSTAND FLOODING IN THE BAY AREABusiness Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas. To make matters worse, …
03/30/2018COMMUNITY BOARD CONSIDERS FLOOD BARRIER PARK FOR MANHATTAN’S EAST SIDECurbed: This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposa…
03/30/2018IN-DEPTH: CAN HOUSTON APPLY NEW YORK’S BIG THINKING ON FLOOD PROJECTS?Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding. But, can resilien…
03/26/2018THIS IS HOW HIGH NYC’S SEA LEVELS WILL RISE IF WE DON’T TAKE CLIMATE ACTIONInhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the me…
03/22/2018GREEN DESIGN OF BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITIES CREATES HEALTHIER, SUSTAINABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENTSMississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way thi…
03/13/2018THE LONG ROAD TO STORM RESILIENCY: WORKING ON SANDY RECOVERYPatch: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused billions of dollars in damage to the East Coast, the federal government mad…
02/22/2018BOULDER BARRELS: WATER BRINGS COMMUNITIES AND PLANNERS TOGETHER IN COLORADOZilient.org: Revered for its natural beauty, the city of Boulder in the United States is a popular destination for those looking to enj…
02/20/2018TEAM OF ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, AND URBAN PLANNERS TO DESIGN COASTAL RESILIENCENasdaq: WSP (TSX:WSP), Arcadis (EURONEXT:ARCAD), Waggonner & Ball, and Yale Urban Design Workshop today announced their selection t…
01/31/2018HASSELL+ AND MVRDV TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BAY AREAInhabitat: A HASSELL+-led design team that includes MVRDV has unveiled their preliminary proposed design strategy for ta…
01/18/2018BIG UNVEILS SCHEME TO PROTECT SAN FRANCISCO CREEK FROM FLOODINGDezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by cl…
01/16/2018RAISED STEPPING STONES ALLOW DUTCH BRIDGE TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE DURING A FLOODDezeen: Rising water levels don't cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accesse…
01/11/2018DESIGN COMPETITION TACKLES SITES AROUND BAY AREA TO ADDRESS RISING WATERSSan Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscape…
01/11/20185 BERGEN TOWNS TO BENEFIT FROM DEP MEADOWLANDS FLOODING PLANNorth Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could …