Rebuild by Design: New Meadowlands

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

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

Initiated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, the Rebuild by Design (RBD) competition proposed to connect the world’s leading researchers and designers with the Sandy-affected area’s active businesses, policymakers and local groups to better understand how to redevelop their communities in environmentally and economically healthier ways – as a response to Superstorm Sandy’s devastation in the region.