01/30/2019
The Villager: A recently revised city plan on how to keep East River floodwaters at bay in the event of another Hurricane Sandy produce…
PRESS
01/28/2019
Strategy+Business: Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast of the United States in 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and…
01/25/2019
Curbed: Projects undertaken by the city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) have been notoriously plagued by protracted …
01/24/2019
Curbed: After years of community engagement about a resiliency plan to build a system of flood barriers and berms a…
01/24/2019
Gothamist: After millions of dollars and countless hours spent fielding input from Lower East Side and East Village residents, the …
01/24/2019
Politico: City officials admitted on Wednesday they failed to effectively communicate to residents the changes wrought by a last-minute over…
01/23/2019
WNYC: With rising sea levels, parts of Manhattan are at increased risk of severe flooding, like we saw with Sandy in 2013. One form of …
01/22/2019
Arch Paper: Manhattan’s East River Park, home to sprawling fields, winding bike paths, and a landscaped promenade, was badly damag…
01/18/2019
NYTimes: The crowd at the recent meeting of Community Board 3 was agitated. Vaylateeba Jones, a 50-year Lower East Side resident and board o…
01/18/2019
Grist: Check out how Grist's explains Hoboken's "Resist, Store, Delay, Discharge" project in "Inside a City Redesigned for Climate Chan…
01/17/2019
CNN Newsource: The New York Harbor for years has been polluted and depleted of marine life. But one nonprofit is working to clean the murky …
01/12/2019
CT Post: In a new plan to address flooding in the South End of Bridgeport, city officials see an opportunity to kick-start private inve…
01/08/2019
The Low Down:In the community, there are many unanswered questions about the city’s sudden decision to overhaul the plan for a flood barrier…
01/04/2019
The Villager: East River Park is expected to undergo massive changes in the coming years.
As early as March 2020, the city could beg…
12/27/2018
Hudson Reporter: Several public meetings and workshops were held to discuss possible features of the Rebuild by Design project.
The …
12/19/2018
Metropolis: “Your urgency is not my urgency.” This was the rebuke from Marquita Price of the East Oakland Collective (EOC) at a design …
12/17/2018
AMNY: NYC officials held two community meetings last week to discuss their newest plans to protect the East Side from storm surges.
If th…
12/14/2018
After Superstorm Sandy, reclaiming the waterfront is a many-layered thing
Architecture Boston: When Superstorm Sandy hit the Lower E…
12/13/2018
After Superstorm Sandy, Reclaiming the Waterfront is a Many-Layered Thing
The Villager: On Monday, the city released new design…
12/13/2018
Landscape Architecture Magazine: In the early 1920s, leaders of the Soviet Union had a communication problem: how to relay the abstract…
12/04/2018
CT POST: BRIDGEPORT — As he exits the governor’s office, Dannel Malloy and his administration are giving $14.6 million worth of parting…
12/04/2018
ARCH DAILY: As part of a global, interdisciplinary effort to tackle climate change, architects are devoting resources towards opti…
11/28/2018
CT POST: Rebecca French is blunt when she’s asked about hurricanes and Connecticut’s preparedness for them.“Have we figured out as a st…
11/21/2018
POPAGANDA: The Athens urban forest decline. Who will save it? the "Lycabettus project: the present and the future of the…
11/16/2018
The New Republic: When Amazon announced on Tuesday that it would build one of its new headquarters in Long Island City’s Anable Basin, envir…
11/07/2018
Engineering.com: The governor of New Jersey recently announced that the state finalized the plan for its $230 million flood prevention proje…
11/01/2018
Downtown Express: In the days following Superstorm Sandy six years ago, Tanya Acevedo, a mother of two, remembers that it “felt like we were…
11/01/2018
Villager: In the days following Superstorm Sandy, Tanya Acevedo, a mother of two, remembers that it “felt like we were living in the end of …
10/31/2018
PBS: Discover how New York City – overwhelmed in 2012 by Superstorm Sandy – has learned from that disaster, and must defend itself agai…
10/31/2018
NJTV: Six years after Sandy, an ambitious plan is in place that would protect to protect Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken neighborhoods fr…
10/28/2018
Befod & Bowery: Six years ago today, Superstorm Sandy hit New York City. Streets were flooded, buildings were destroyed, some $19 billio…
10/27/2018
News 12 New Jersey: A massive construction project aims at keeping Hoboken safe as sea levels rise amid the effects of climate change.
Th…
10/26/2018
NJ Business Magazine: Gov. Phil Murphy announced a critical step forward for a flood-resistant system to protect Hoboken and parts of Weehaw…
10/26/2018
InsiderNJ: Governor Phil Murphy today announced a critical step forward for a flood-resistant system to protect Hoboken and parts of Weehawk…
10/25/2018
LI Herald: The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery hosted an environmental review hearing at the Rockville Centre Public Library last week o…
10/25/2018
Curbed NY: Hurricane Sandy, which happened six years ago this week, notably exposed the dire need to improve New York’s infrastructure so th…
10/24/2018
John Hopkins University: If libraries didn't yet exist, the concept wouldn't stand a chance of getting off the ground in today's Americ…
10/19/2018
northjersey: Last week, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the results of his audit of NJ Transit. The audit, he said, found a “lack of critica…
10/18/2018
The Press of Atlantic City: Dutch flood control expert Edgar J. Westerhof stood in front of hundreds of floodplain managers at Bally’s …
10/17/2018
CityLab: In nearly every major coastal city on Earth, elected officials are going Dutch—placing their faith and the future of their com…
10/12/2018
NY 1: A new plan to prevent flooding in Lower Manhattan is not going over well with some residents.
They voiced their concerns…
10/08/2018
The East Village Patch: EAST VILLAGE, NY — The city recently announced major changes to a 2.4-mile flood barrier designed to prevent th…
10/04/2018
The Architect's Newspaper: Manhattan’s East River Park is expected to receive a massive facelift—and sooner than expected. Last we…
10/01/2018
6Sqft: In July, the city released an RFP for a stewardship partner for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), …
10/01/2018
Crain's New York Business: The de Blasio administration on Friday announced major changes to a 2.4-mile barrier designed to protect the…
09/28/2018
Curbed: The city has announced major changes to the design for part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a pro…
09/28/2018
Politico: The de Blasio administration on Friday unveiled a dramatically different plan for the East Side Coastal Resiliency project th…
09/28/2018
NY Post: The city wants to lift up East River Park by several feet to prevent the FDR Drive and homes behind it from flooding, official…
09/26/2018
FOX5NY: In 2014, the federal government awarded New York City hundreds of millions of dollars to make improvements so that the next tim…
09/26/2018
CBS: Henk Ovink was recently featured on latest episode of 60 Minutes where he discussed innovative approaches to flooding and disaster…
09/24/2018
Politico: A massive economic development project that would sit on some of the last untapped real estate in downtown Hoboken appears to…
09/20/2018
NY1: Winds and rain battered Puerto Rico. Many say the preparedness before, and recovery since, is offensively lacking.
Mayor Bill …
09/14/2018
The Architect's Newspaper: Sorry aquarium lovers, but the two massive fish tanks at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island…
09/12/2018
SF Chronicle: The formal events at this week’s Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco are closed to the public, but anyone can v…
09/04/2018
The Mercury News: California’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have made the state an icon in the fight against climate change, a s…
08/26/2018
SILive: The two giant fish tanks in the Staten Island Ferry terminal waiting room are getting a makeover. A specific plan for the tanks…
08/23/2018
New Civil Engineer: New York and London are preparing for a wetter future with schemes to protect these world cities into the next century. …
08/19/2018
Hudson County View: “My priority as Mayor is to protect the health and well-being of our residents,” Mayor Ravi Bhalla said in a statement.
…
08/16/2018
SI Live: The Billion Oyster Project seeded oysters to create the reef in a lagoon in Lemon Creek Park, Prince's Bay, on Wednesday.
Worker…
07/23/2018
Houston Chronicle: With the upcoming post-Harvey bond election, many people throughout the region are scrutinizing lists of potential flood …
07/16/2018
InnovateLI: A new partnership between Albany and Hofstra University is giving Long Island’s scientists of tomorrow a unique opportunity…
07/11/2018
Bisnow: While the San Francisco Bay Area’s best features may be the seemingly endless views of the waterfront, the view comes with a pr…
07/10/2018
SPUR: The Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge is an innovative year-long collaborative design challenge that brought together local …
06/22/2018
National Geographic: Making places beautiful is not enough for Kate Orff. The landscape architect also wants to make them adaptable to …
06/19/2018
Observer: Hurricane Sandy was the most devastating storm ever to hit New York, causing an estimated $32 billion in economic losses for …
06/19/2018
6sqft: In 2014 6sqft reported on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rebuild By Design contest to develop ways …
06/15/2018
CapitolWeekly: Growing up in New Orleans, summertime brought mixed feelings. It meant the end of the school year and endless snow cones…
06/03/2018
AJC: One of Atlanta’s most historic corridors, named after one of its most prominent citizens, will undergo a redesign focused on emphasizin…
05/30/2018
Next City: A lifelong resident of North Richmond, Princess Robinson has observed how outsiders have treated her community like it’s disposab…
05/29/2018
KQED: You can shove water back from the land, or let the land flood, but either way, San Francisco Bay is getting higher. Along more than 40…
05/22/2018
The Architect's Newsletter: The year-long Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge ideas competition has sought to utilize community-led eco…
05/17/2018
FastCompany: When the oldest restaurant in San Francisco was built in 1861, it sat on the waterfront of a creek, serving seaf…
05/16/2018
San Francisco Chronicle: Protecting the Bay Area from sea level rise isn’t just about building seawalls. It’s a chance to reshape indus…
05/03/2018
Houston Chronicle:Yes, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston hard, harder than ever before. The storm showcased all Houston's vulnerabilities – manma…
04/27/2018
Patch.com: Floating cities and wetland buffers designed to tackle the threat of flooding and sea level rise are two ideas that student …
04/26/2018
Business Insider: Today, more than five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, the five boroughs are still recovering from the …
04/09/2018
Port of San Francisco: Islais Creek, spilling out into the Southern Bay by Pier 80, was nominated by the Port and City of San Francisco…
04/09/2018
Business Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas.
To make matters worse, …
03/30/2018
Curbed: This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposa…
03/30/2018
Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding. But, can resilien…
03/26/2018
Inhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the me…
03/22/2018
Mississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way thi…
03/13/2018
Patch: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused billions of dollars in damage to the East Coast, the federal government mad…
02/22/2018
Zilient.org: Revered for its natural beauty, the city of Boulder in the United States is a popular destination for those looking to enj…
02/20/2018
Nasdaq: WSP (TSX:WSP), Arcadis (EURONEXT:ARCAD), Waggonner & Ball, and Yale Urban Design Workshop today announced their selection t…
01/31/2018
Inhabitat: A HASSELL+-led design team that includes MVRDV has unveiled their preliminary proposed design strategy for ta…
01/18/2018
Dezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by cl…
01/16/2018
Dezeen: Rising water levels don't cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accesse…
01/11/2018
San Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscape…
01/11/2018
North Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could …
12/20/2017
WYPR: 2017 is looking to be a record setting year when it comes to natural disasters in the United States. Climate change and a growing…
12/12/2017
Alameda Sun: Several Alameda locations have been nominated to be part of a study that aims to provide unique solutions to locations mos…
11/22/2017
Co.design: Unfortunately, it usually takes a natural disaster to remind cities how vulnerable they are–and how urgent long-range resili…
11/16/2017
KQED: After months of study, ten carefully-picked design teams are unveiling their first ideas for giving the Bay Area a makeover to co…
11/15/2017
Curbed: Growing up in the forests of Delaware, Gena Wirth, a design principal at SCAPE, spent her days building forts and collecting st…
11/02/2017
99% Invisible: Standing on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s financial district in the shadows of glass skyscrapers, it is easy to forget how…
11/01/2017
Metropolis: This week marks five years since Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history, made landfall. As it …
11/01/2017
Houston Chronicle: History provides a guide for how Houston can rebuild after the devastation of Harvey.
In the wake of destructive …
10/30/2017
Bay Nature: Last month, as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida, a crowd of international designers, scientists, and policy-maker…
10/26/2017
NJ Spotlight: Nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Sandy inundated Hoboken, the city got word from the federal government that …
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