Tagged: resilience
Who Stays? Who Pays? Rebuilding New York City
Residents in flood-prone regions of New York are caught between two sometimes incompatible goals: strengthening and preserving their communities, and taking sensible steps to respond to climate and change, sea level rise, and other big issues.
The New World of Electric Power Microgrids
The New World of Electric Power Microgrids
Distributed Energy Model Supports Resiliency
microgrids have gained renewed attention because of the energy reliability and security benefits of distributed generation
The front lines of urban resilience, all around the world
The front lines of urban resilience — by Center for Architecture’s Bill Millard
Last week’s UN symposium on sustainability and resilience, held in New York City, highlighted the imperatives to minimize risks and mitigate our consumption, to keep our urbanizing passion from accelerating into an “uncontrollable” future.
A Nuanced Approach to Infrastructure
from Architect’s Newspaper by John Gendall
Designers from coast to coast are breaking through the old distinction between “grey” (aka “hard” ) and “green” (aka “soft”) infrastructure to establish strategies that apply a mix of the two.
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