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Flooding
Public Risks on Private Shores
Along New York City’s waterfront, development has spurred the creation of new public spaces regulated down to the level of tree plantings and bicycle parking. Why aren’t resilience measures mandated in a similar way?
Organic Machines
Thousands of new rain gardens are soaking up stormwater across the city. As green infrastructure settles into the sidewalk, can we learn to love a sewer?
East Harlem Gets Ready
For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.
In the Hudson's Image
For activists, scientists, and designers, images from the river's past hold the key to imagining its future.
Waterfront Views
With so much of value under threat from rising seas and flooding rains, recent books reconsider our relation to the water’s edge.
It Takes a Village to Weather a Storm
In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.
Beyond Resilience
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.
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Underwater and out of sight, electricity moves between boroughs through tunnels designed to weather the storm.
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Traces of a private water supply system, only recently decommissioned, extend across southeastern Queens.