From Risk to Opportunity: Rebuild by Design

Data, De Urbanisten, Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, MIT CAU, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms, ZUS

Climate change, Data, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Food, Future cities, Infrastructure, Innovation, Landscape, New York, Pollution, Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Social impact, Stormwater Management, Sustainability, Territory, Urban design, Urban food accessibility, Urban Paradigms, Water level

The metropolitan region of NY-NJ is a delta within which the Hudson River, the East River, the Hackensack and the Passaic all converge. In this confluence a diversity of coastal and semi-inland flood landscapes appear. The team mapped these as separate categories of landscapes, because they respond to flooding in different ways and are accompanied by different risks and vulnerabilities to the urban environments that they host.