08/06/2025The Subway Rat can help keep us dryNY 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…
08/05/2025An engineer’s guide to the future of flood defenseInteresting Engineering: The $60M federal grant (Rebuild by Design) plus state funds yielded a ~$107–111M project (in 2020 dollars). Civil c…
07/29/2025Flood risk is growing in NJ. Where are our governor candidates on climate? | OpinionNorth Jersey: According to Rebuild by Design's Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey, the state has experienced 14 federally declared major disaster…
07/18/2025FEMA’s Future: Inside Trump’s Push to Reshape Disaster ReliefKatie Couric: “Trump has come out with his guns blazing against FEMA,” New York University’s Rebuild By Design director Amy Chester tells us…
07/15/2025President Trump, Gov. Abbott reevaluate FEMA as Texas floods test disaster responseSpectrum News TX: “FEMA is frontline aid for states across the country,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild by Design, a New York Univers…
07/14/2025Lessons from Texas: We aren’t ready for today’s extreme weatherThe Hill: The nonpartisan organization Rebuild by Design notes that 40 states experienced 10 or more major disasters (those causing more tha…
07/13/2025Cityscape: Global BIG architecture group champions sustainability in CaliforniaTimes 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…
07/11/2025New York unveils innovative waterfront ‘wall’ to withstand massive storm surges: ‘Protect the community behind it’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…
06/16/2025New York City’s new elevated waterfront – in picturesThe Guardian: ‘The whole idea was to use the park as the “wall” that would protect the community behind it, but also give the community new …
06/12/2025Designing with Vision: Funding Pre-Disaster Adaptation in New JerseyEESI: After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New Jersey received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for two adaptation project…
06/12/2025More Than 1M NJ Residents Live Under High Flood Risk, New Report SaysPatch: In a recent study conducted by Rebuild by Design (RBD), 1.3 million people in New Jersey live in high flood risk areas, with half of …
06/11/2025Two pavilions by nArchitects promote climate resiliency in New York and New JerseyArch Paper: A short PATH ride away in Hoboken is ResilienCity Park (formerly known as Northwest Resiliency Park). Led by E&LP (now AKRF)…
06/06/2025‘BIG U’ East Side Coastal Resiliency project opens in New York CityLeisure Opportunities: Memorial Day (29 May) saw the opening of phase one of the East River Park redevelopment in New York City, with the ne…
06/05/2025Report: 70% of County Property at Flooding Risk by 2050Cape May County Herald: A new report by the public-private partnership Rebuild by Design says Cape May and Atlantic counties have the most p…
05/30/2025Cape May, Atlantic counties have highest flood damage risk in New Jersey over next 25 yearsPress of Atlantic City: Rebuild By Design, the public-private partnership formed after Superstorm Sandy to plan protective measures for futu…
05/30/2025Increased flooding could lead to ‘climate migration’ in NJPBS: Hundreds of thousands of people could be forced from their homes, new report says. “We’re sounding the alarm, and we’re saying, ‘Hey, l…