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The City: “It’s so obvious that investing in parks will save lives and livelihoods,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild By Design, who re…

E Broad Street: The February report went on to say, “the Lower Manhattan SPD would be the first to see its user fee activated. This SPD woul…

Babylon Beacon: “When you look at repeated flooding in coastal places like Long Beach and Freeport,” Amy Chester, managing director of the c…

Charleston Gazette-Mail: The new "Atlas of Disaster: West Virginia" report by Rebuild by Design reveals troubling trends: West Virginia had …

WV Explorer: A new analysis by Rebuild by Design underscores that concern. Its report, Atlas of Disaster: West Virginia, documents 23 federa…

Charleston Gazette-Mail: Rebuild by Design, a group at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University that works with communities…

National Geographic: In response, the Obama administration tried a new approach. The Department of Housing and Urban Development held a comp…

Metropolis Mag: ESCR’s Project Area 1, centered on East River Park, involves raising the waterfront park’s topography and is nested within t…

The Bay State Banner: “Every single county in Massachusetts has suffered a major climate event from 2011 to 2024,” said Amy Chester, directo…

ROCK 92.9: A report released by Rebuild by Design, an initiative of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, has tracked h…

Boston Globe: Extreme weather disasters fueled by climate change in Massachusetts have cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, a…

Economic Architecture Project: In this week’s episode, Amy Chester joins the Economic Architecture podcast to share her innovative work at R…

Rolling Stone: The government has spent more than $3 billion on beach replenishment over the past four decades. But with worsening climate c…

New Jersey Globe: Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill today named 433 members to a transition team Interdisciplinary Advisory Task Force described…

CBS News: Committee on Transportation, Climate, & Infrastructure: Amy Chester, Rebuild by Design. New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamda…

SI Live: Each committee will be overseen by one of the transition co-chairs: Lina Khan, Grace Bonilla, Maria Torres-Springer, and Melanie Ha…