Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy

Energy and sustainability, Essay, Julia Nevarez, No Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Anthropocene, Climate change, Emergency architecture, Environmental, Essay, Extreme environments, Global Awareness, Neoliberalism, Planetary urbanizations, Reconstructing nature, Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Sustainability, Urban Paradigms, Water level

Author: Julia Nevarez. Publisher: Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, 2018. "Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy" by Julia Nevárez is a book that offers an interdisciplinary perspective to understand climate change as a complex and multi-scalar phenomenon from broad perspectives and current debates including the anthropocene, environmental security, and resiliency within the context of neoliberalism and austerity policies to devise social, ecological, and physical alternatives. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, April 2018. -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006097

After many years of friends and colleagues suggesting a visit to the awe-inspiring architecture of Calatrava’s Oculus in Lower Manhattan, I ventured one summer afternoon after catching the ferry service from the beach in the Rockaways, an area badly impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The outside of the dove-inspired entrance was a peace monument designed for a city in the process of healing from 9/11. Oculus is cemented over the vast expanse of added land from the World Trade Center dig, now the site of the 9/11 Memorial, where Battery Park City is now located. Another area badly impacted by Hurricane Sandy.