08/23/2017THERE’S A HUGE, OVERLOOKED ECONOMIC THREAT TO NEW YORK CITYBusiness Insider: Like most American cities that border an ocean, New York City is at risk for flooding due to sea level rise. Sea level …
07/27/2017WALLS WON’T SAVE OUR CITIES FROM RISING SEAS. HERE’S WHAT WILLNBC News: To some people, climate change seems like a problem only for future generations. But for residents of many coastal cities, th…
06/08/2017EXPERTS: CITIES MUST THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT RESILIENCE PLANNINGGovTech.com: Resilience planning involves understanding the most pressing issues within a community, and working across sectors of private i…
06/02/2017DESIGNING FOR DISASTER, BEFORE IT HAPPENS: RESILIENT BY DESIGN SEEKS ARCHITECTSArchinect: Disasters resulting from climate change, such as sea level rise, often cause billions of dollars of damage. In an era when the Un…
06/01/2017RESILIENT BY DESIGN LAUNCHES BAY AREA CHALLENGEMetropolitan Transportation Commission: Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the…
05/30/2017GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE SETS SIGHTS ON ADAPTING BAY AREA INFRASTRUCTURESF Business Times: Resilient by Design is an open call for multidisciplinary teams comprised of architects, engineers, designers and ot…
05/30/2017DESIGN TEAMS COMPETE FOR BEST SOLUTION TO SEA-LEVEL CONUNDRUMSan Francisco Chronicle: An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks…
04/17/2017REBUILD BY DESIGN’S ENDURING LEGACYArchitect Magazine: The most moving architectural renderings I’ve seen lately show the New Jersey Meadowlands, not far from where I gre…
03/24/2017RIDING THE WAVE: UNITS IN WATER TRACK DATA FOR LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECTSI Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, more commonly known as the ADCP, is a key part of the Livin…
03/23/2017LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT: CAN IT PROTECT US FROM FUTURE STORMS?SI Advance: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islan…
02/17/2017DEMYSTIFYING HUDFast Company: Like many large federal departments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is complex and misunderstood. …
02/04/2017BAY AREA: RESILIENT BY DESIGN CHALLENGE TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WON’TImpact Design Hub: In response to President Trump’s resolve to ignore climate change and any policies that could help lessen the effects of …
01/27/2017A NEW COMPETITION TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BAY AREAFacts Coexist: After his inauguration, one of President Trump’s first orders of business was to reportedly "purge" all refer…
01/25/2017THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION GRANTS $4.6M TO BAY AREA LEADERS TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGEMass Transit Magazine: The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create …
01/25/2017ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION AWARDS $4.6-MILLION TO FIGHT SEA LEVEL RISE IN BAY AREAThe Architects Newspaper: This week, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $4.6 million to the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Cha…
01/24/2017BOLSTERING THE BAY AREA AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTSRoute Fifty: The Bay Area in California just got its own urban resilience design challenge, with The Rockefeller Foundation on Mon…