01/18/2018
Dezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by cl…
PRESS
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 …
10/23/2017
Architectural Record: The setting, an ornate auditorium in Manhattan’s Masonic Hall, was designed for semi-secret rituals, but the focu…
10/16/2017
Coastal Living: A landscape architect who saves coastlines? Meet urban designer Kate Orff, a newly named MacArthur Fellow, and the…
10/03/2017
NRDC: Our nation has been rocked by three catastrophic hurricanes over the past five weeks. This rash of disasters has taxed the nation…
09/17/2017
The Washington Post: AUSTIN, Texas — The man tasked with overseeing Texas’ Hurricane Harvey rebuilding efforts sees his job as “future-proof…
09/14/2017
San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area residents know how hard it is to get a full sense of the large and constantly shifting shoreline that…
09/12/2017
Archpaper: Seven design teams have been selected to represent the United States in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennal…
09/10/2017
San Francisco Chronicle: With sea level rise expected to become a pressing threat here within decades, 10 design teams have been selected to…
09/06/2017
Real Estate Weekly: Fresh of Hurricane Harvey, days away from Irma and five years after New York was battered by its own Hurricane Sandy,&nb…
09/01/2017
FOX 5 News - After Superstorm Sandy hit, a handful of groups were tasked with creating ways to protect communities in and around New Yo…
08/30/2017
CBC: The hurricane that has devastated Texas and Louisiana — and the catastrophic flooding in Sierra Leone and South East Asia — s…
08/23/2017
Business Insider: Like most American cities that border an ocean, New York City is at risk for flooding due to sea level rise.
Sea level …
07/27/2017
NBC News: To some people, climate change seems like a problem only for future generations. But for residents of many coastal cities, th…
06/08/2017
GovTech.com: Resilience planning involves understanding the most pressing issues within a community, and working across sectors of private i…
06/02/2017
Archinect: Disasters resulting from climate change, such as sea level rise, often cause billions of dollars of damage. In an era when the Un…
06/01/2017
Metropolitan Transportation Commission: Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the…
05/30/2017
SF Business Times: Resilient by Design is an open call for multidisciplinary teams comprised of architects, engineers, designers and ot…
05/30/2017
San Francisco Chronicle: An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks…
04/17/2017
Architect Magazine: The most moving architectural renderings I’ve seen lately show the New Jersey Meadowlands, not far from where I gre…
03/24/2017
SI Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, more commonly known as the ADCP, is a key part of the Livin…
03/23/2017
SI Advance: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islan…
02/17/2017
Fast Company: Like many large federal departments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is complex and misunderstood.
…
02/04/2017
Impact Design Hub: In response to President Trump’s resolve to ignore climate change and any policies that could help lessen the effects of …
01/27/2017
Facts Coexist: After his inauguration, one of President Trump’s first orders of business was to reportedly "purge" all refer…
01/25/2017
Mass Transit Magazine: The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create …
01/25/2017
The Architects Newspaper: This week, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $4.6 million to the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Cha…
01/24/2017
Route Fifty: The Bay Area in California just got its own urban resilience design challenge, with The Rockefeller Foundation on Mon…
01/23/2017
Next City: A contest inviting designers, policy-makers and developers to imagine climate change solutions for the San Francisco area will op…
01/22/2017
Commercial Property Executive: The Rockefeller Foundation just threw its support behind the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization recentl…
01/22/2017
The San Francisco Chronicle: The Bay Area will soon be a laboratory that tests how urban regions can prepare for the likelihood of sea …
01/18/2017
The Guardian: Ten years ago, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg released a plan to create what he called “the first environmentally …
12/12/2016
C40: Climate change is not solely an environmental issue, but is inextricably linked to challenges of eradicating poverty and increasing inc…
12/07/2016
ArchPaper: Four years after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is one major step closer to flood-proofing its shores.
The Mayor’s O…
11/30/2016
American Society of Landscape Architects: “We don’t know what resilience policy will look like in the new administration. There are lots of …
11/23/2016
Battle on Many Fronts
SF Chronicle: The levee that rings Oakland International Airport seemingly has nothing in common with the salt-crus…
11/17/2016
Route Fifty: Nassau County, New York, located on Long Island, saw 1 percent of homes flood and 1.1 million residents lose power, when S…
11/15/2016
Politico: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, several federally sponsored projects sought to usher in new modes of urban design that protected a…
10/30/2016
Hudson Reporter: Mayor Dawn Zimmer, along with a city planner and a floodplain expert, presented ways to lower residents’ flood insurance an…
10/25/2016
Wired: IN THE SUMMER of 1995, a blistering heat wave settled over Chicago for three days. It killed 739 people, making it one of the mo…
10/25/2016
Watch Blog: As the fourth anniversary of superstorm Sandy draws near, let’s take a look at one of the unique ways the government respon…
10/23/2016
Citylab: Dedicated to highlighting innovation and effective practices in urban governance, CityLab gathered the world’s most creative mayors…
09/13/2016
Rebuild By Design Chooses A Way Forward
Jersey Digs: The $230 million Rebuild By Design project, which aims to curb flooding in par…
09/09/2016
The Hudson Reporter: In a presentation Thursday night, Sept. 8, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the city of Hoboke…
08/24/2016
The Long Island Herald: At the second meeting to discuss the Rebuild by Design program to make Mill River more storm-resilient, citizen…
08/03/2016
Archinect:
For most of us, ‘home’ conjures a sense of safety and security. But a home is a fragile thing: vulnerable to quaking gro…
07/28/2016
Dwell:
As countries across the globe mobilize to address pressing issues for a growing population, we examine the nation of the “smart ci…
07/13/2016
100 Resilient Cities:
What makes Rebuild by Design succeed? Rebuild by Design was launched by U.S. Housing and Urban Developmen…
07/05/2016
Rolling Stone:
It’s a bright spring day in New York, with sunlight dancing on the East River and robins singing Broadway tunes. I’m…
06/30/2016
NorthJersey.com:
The recipient of $150 million in federal, disaster-relief grants, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Prote…
06/29/2016
3BL:
On the first of June—one of those rare days invoked by the American poet James Russell Lowell—we met our advisor and Patagonia…
06/17/2016
The Hudson Reporter:
Roughly 100 residents came to a public meeting on Tuesday to talk about three possible anti-flooding proposals…
06/13/2016
The Field Guide:
On the first of June—one of those rare days invoked by the American poet James Russell Lowell—we met our advisor a…
06/07/2016
Industry Leaders:
As a part of an initiative to revive parts of the coast hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, BIG and Dutch firm ‘One A…
06/06/2016
The Architects Newspaper:
On Friday, Rebuild By Design (RBD) hosted a conference at NYU to check in on the progress o…
06/05/2016
ENCA:
NEW YORK – Imagine a world that’s run out of fresh water. A world where it’s so hot, crops can no longer grow. Where rising s…
06/02/2016
NewsWorks:
Following Superstorm Sandy, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan launched a design competition.
Now,…
06/01/2016
City Metric:
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the north eastern United States. The storm plunged many of the region’s cities in…
05/31/2016
The San Francisco Chronicle:
Fifty years ago, Bay Area residents rallied around the call to save San Francisco Bay. Public action on an u…
05/30/2016
Newsweek:
“The United States doesn’t have a good history with urban projects,” says architect Matthijs Bouw.
As proof, he points to th…
05/26/2016
The Monocle:
On this week’s Monocle Podcast, we look at water-sensitive urban design, unpack our relationship with the ocean, discov…
05/13/2016
Carbon Brief:
Scientists, policymakers and businesspeople convened in Rotterdam this week for theAdaptation Futures 2016 confe…
05/02/2016
City Lab:
Berkeley, California, is a small city facing some large-scale challenges. There are the environmental: the Hayward fault l…
04/12/2016
The Guardian:
Just as musicians can build their year around festival appearances, architects can now fill their calendar with deadlines f…
04/08/2016
NJ.com:
Consultants and local and state officials pushing for a $230 million federally funded plan to resist Hurricane Sandy-like floodin…
04/01/2016
The Hudson Reporter:
What will Hoboken’s flood protection look like? Planners expect to make renderings public by June but resident…
03/10/2016
Washington Monthly:
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy rampaged through the East Coast, bringing 80-mile-an-hour winds that destroyed …
03/04/2016
Al Jazeera: After Hurricane Sandy, the city's plans to mitigate future disaster have underscored its social and economic inequities.&nb…
02/22/2016
Politico New York:
Read a featured article about Resilience by Design University (RBD U).
There are two governing realities that preoc…
02/21/2016
Hudson Reporter:
Hoboken officials and engineers met with the public on Thursday, Feb. 18 and unveiled three new plans to protect the cit…
02/12/2016
The Patch:
It’s down to three choices, Hoboken.
City administrators announced that the NJ DEP will host a community meeting on Feb. 18…
02/11/2016
The Patch:
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer gave the annual State of the City address on Wednesday.
Did you miss Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s …
02/06/2016
SciDev.Net:
Listen to Henk Ovink featured on this week’s podcast.
This interview was recorded this week at Creation from catastrophe: …
01/28/2016
CNN:
Listen to Henk Ovink, who is harnessing the Netherlands’ long-built-up knowledge managing water. Watch video…
01/22/2016
HUD Grant Will Improve Shoreline Infrastructure in New Haven and Bridgeport
Governor Dannel P. Malloy today joined Connecticut Department…
01/21/2016
New York Times:
Federal housing officials will award about $281 million to the New York region, including the states of Connecticut…
01/21/2016
13 states/communities to receive funding for resilient infrastructure and housing projects
Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban De…
01/19/2016
Curbed:
Lower Manhattan will receive $176 million in funds for flood protection, the New York Times reports.While th…
01/18/2016
From the New York Times:
New York City may soon be one step closer to building a new flood protection system around Lower Man…
01/14/2016
TimeOut New York:
After Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, all kind of ideas were bandied about to combat future fallout from major …
01/13/2016
The Observer:
When you hear the phrase “East Side Coastal Resiliency Project,” your first thought probably isn’t “That sounds like …
12/15/2015
The Atlantic, City Lab:
Tottenville, on Staten Island, will get oyster-friendly breakwaters and a dune system as part of post-Sandy…
12/13/2015
Hudson Reporter:
One woman looked visibly flustered at a presentation this week of various ways Hoboken can handle storm surges and flood…
12/07/2015
Hudson Reporter:
Share your thoughts about how Hoboken, and neighboring coastal cities, should protect themselves from future storm…
11/10/2015
US Builders Review:
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild By Design was started in 2013 as new type of design competition. Since …
11/02/2015
Landscape Architecture’s Latest News:
“While the 20th century was driven by magnanimous architecture, the 21st century is shaping up…
10/30/2015
Hudson Reporter:
Three years ago on Oct. 29, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc in Hoboken. 500 million gallons of water flooded the streets …
10/29/2015
The White House:
Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the Administration has invested in hard-hit communities to ensure that they d…