Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics: Critically explores the Rebuild by Design process and the novelty of its approach in a post-Sandy world.
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Since the Hurricane Sandy competition, Rebuild by Design, and the processes that were inspired by that work including, the National Disaster Resilience Competition, the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge, Water is Leverage, and others, have sparked interest in communities, governments academics, and researchers. To help researchers understand more about our work, and to continue to contribute to a growing portfolio of writings about the work, we have launched this library as a resource for all who are interested.
We would like to thank the University of Groningen for their partnership in locating and cataloging the articles and books that have examined our work. If you know of a resource that is not listed here, please let us know by sending an email to info@rebuildbydesign.org
If you are looking for the Hurricane Sandy Competition archives, please visit the New York Historical Society here.
International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017:
Summarizes the methodology and presents pilot testing of this method to identify infrastructure and resiliency improvements that meet the community resiliency needs.
Climate Change Adaptation in North America: Focuses on the ways of balancing ‘project risks' and ‘global risks’ in order to successfully implement climate adaptation projects.
Firenze University Press: Focuses on the drivers and barriers to the success of Rebuild by Design competition’s viability in the post-disaster recovery process.
Procedia Engineering: Explores the Rebuild by Design process and strategies and highlights the key themes and innovations which emerged as a result of it.
The article discusses planning issues in New York, including the development of infrastructure projects to make the city resilient to future climate catastrophes.
Landscape and Urban Planning: Presents a framework for coastal adaptation to climate change impacts in planning efforts, using the landscape of the Toms River-Barnegat Bay ecosystem in New Jersey (eastern coast of United States, 90 km south of New York City) as a case study.
Adaptation Futures Conference 2016: Focuses on the Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge proposal. The research aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the RBD approach for the context of Hoboken.
MIT: Examines the potential for competitions to foster a shift toward resilient design in local planning practice. The three municipalities that serve as cases -- Asbury Park, Keansburg, and Toms River, New Jersey -- each received detailed visions and plans for substantial resilience projects through the federal Rebuild by Design competition, but did not win any financial support for their implementation. However, the thesis finds several positive effects of the competition experience on local planning, including new awareness and interest in long-term visioning and cross-boundary collaboration. Findings also include a set of ongoing challenges -- primarily, limited local capacity and regional politics -- against which the competition alone is inadequate to help communities realize resilience.
Landscape Journal: Examines the field of resilience and explore the ways in which resilience theory departs from that of sustainability and considering how these differences might manifest themselves in practice.
Outlines the major spatial planning initiatives undertaken in the New York region in response to Hurricane Sandy, illustrating the different approaches taken by New York City, New York State and the US federal government and contrasting these programs with the spatial planning programs in neighbouring New Jersey, which was equally hard hit by the storm.
Public Culture: In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design convened an international working group of experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics. The article contains interviews with several members of the working group on the challenges and opportunities that cities increasingly face in a warming world, with a focus on revealing common points of interest, shared understandings, and divergent opinions.
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