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 …
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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.
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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 …
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…