Australian Journal of Emergency Management: Interview with Helen Lochhead, deputy Government Architect New South Wales (Australia). She believes designers can not only help governments and communities plan for, and rebuild after, major disasters, but also initiate better solutions that build long-term urban resilience. The interview focuses on Rebuild by Design as an example of this.
Library
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ENR: Reviews major milestones for the building sector in 2015, listing Rebuild by Design projects among them.
University of Pennsylvania Press: The five components of resilient systems, as outlined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Rebuild by Design competition brief, are used as a framework in this article to evaluate the merits of particular interventions or management approaches in cultural landscapes.
Social Research: Discusses the development of strategic efforts and design concepts which aim to strengthen the coastal edge structures of the New York City metropolitan region, for protection from natural disasters brought by the increasing climate change as of September 2015. A team led by design firms WXY and West 8 have proposed a regional-scale approach to coastal protection, with a concept to create an offshore barrier island called The Blue Dunes.
MIT: Investigates the design process through the case of Rebuild by Design in order to understand what would make it a useful alternative to improve disaster recovery processes and outcomes. This thesis finds that the competition design teams practice characteristics of design thinking. The resulting design ideas synthesize across regional, social, and economic systems, and offer an improved approach to the current infrastructure practices of flood protection and water mitigation. At the same time, the ability of the design process to fulfill the organizational goals of the competition, such as capacity building for local governments, remains mixed.
Goethe-Institut: The purpose of the REBUILD BY DESIGN MUNICH exhibition and symposium is to approach the topic of disasters, climate change and sustainability challenges of the built environment and communities in an interdisciplinary way by presenting and discussing core aims, facts, and terms. The RBD competition, initiated after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States in 2012, offers the opportunity to discuss this topic, its societal character, and its relevance for planning and design disciplines.
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