CUSP map: taking a look under the hood of the city
A new crowdsourced map shows some important features of the city and describes how we can respond to changing climate.
New York’s lead role in solving for the future
A panel at Columbia looked at how New York is taking a leading role in how cities both cope with, and solve, the planetary challenge of climate change.
Joel Towers
“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roots of Resilience
In keeping with the notion of sankofa—remembering the past in order to move forward—this year’s theme, “Roots of Resilience,” will examine the ways in which sustainability is tradition, not trend.
Exploring Creative Community Resilience
Climate-adapted neighbourhoods. Green boulevards. Community food forests.
Around the world, more and more cities are committing to ambitious projects aimed at building resilience in light of climate change.
On February 24, 2015 we will convene at The New School to draw from the experiences of grassroots organizers, co-design champions, urban planning professionals, storytellers and representatives from many other fields of social innovation (that’s you!) to explore how to make resilience a collaborative and inclusive process of “civic imagination”.
Oysters!
“In Dutch and English days, immense beds of oysters grew in the harbor. They bordered the shores of Brooklyn and Queens, and they encircled Manhattan, Staten Island, and the islands in the Upper Bay…”
Climate change knowledge for an urbanized planet: UCCRN
The people behind the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) are passionate about delivering climate science to cities, with over 100 citations in the latest IPCC report. So who are they?
Volunteer training for emergency response preparedness
In partnership with NeighborWorks America, 2014’s opening resilience series training will be designing and developing an emergency management program plan for multi-family housing organizations. The successful integration of citizen involvement in an emergency management setting is imperative to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of disasters in our communities.
This full day training will address organization and management of volunteers in emergency response, engaging the community, volunteer operations, logistics, communication and records administration.
MAS summit for New York City: equity, place, and opportunity
Now entering its fifth year, the 2014 Summit will focus on the themes of Equity, Place, and Opportunity, addressing the need to create an urban…
Studying urban resilience at Jamaica Bay
The meeting place of the new Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay used to be an airport. That the former Floyd Bennett Field now hosts information…
Occupy Sandy – Individual and Community Preparedness Workshop
The Individual and Community Preparedness Workshop from Occupy Sandy will present best practices and innovative techniques for preparing the whole community for emergency weather situations.
LES gets a Big U: architecture + culture = resilience
City Atlas spoke with one of the designers of the Big U about the design philosophy behind the Big U, the process of working with the community, and what New York City can learn from Copenhagen.
Getting to know transition culture at COFFEED
A discussion of Transition culture, the global movement of communities organizing to build environmental and economic resilience at COFFEED, the socially responsible, sustainable cafe.
Rebuild by Design and Seaport City: NYC’s coastal future takes shape
Rebuild by Design is an on-going search for policy-based solutions for protecting New York, and other vulnerable coastal cities. It’s no surprise that the finalists of the Rebuild by Design competition proposed projects for storm protection that reflect the New York ideals of creativity and practicality.
Reimagining the city’s edge
New waterfront projects lead the way in mitigating the risks of climate change and building coastal resiliency.
Considering the Quake
Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge explores the intersection between the aesthetics of architectural form and the technicality of structural design, through the lens of earthquake engineering.
Jamaica Bay becomes a focus for ideas about global coastal resilience
Can studying Jamaica Bay lead to methods for protecting coastal areas and populations around the world?
Designing a new water’s edge for the Upper East Side and Harlem
A community-organized panel discussion addresses tissues surrounding the redevelopment of the East River Esplanade.