For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.

For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.

With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.

Underwater and out of sight, electricity moves between boroughs through tunnels designed to weather the storm.

Traces of a private water supply system, only recently decommissioned, extend across southeastern Queens.

Ten final plans presented for Rebuild By Design.

Chris Reed shares work from a Harvard GSD landscape architecture studio that considers how productive ecologies drive the development of urban form and uses Jamaica Bay as a case study for exploring the opportunities of richly fluid territories.

Biologist and plant scientist Paul Mankiewicz explains the Gaia Hypothesis, the inherent environmental productivity of organisms, and why the city's waste stream is our greatest untapped ecological and economic asset.