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This document provides guidance on retrofitting buildings in New York City's floodplain to increase resilience to flooding. It details the complex regulatory landscape since Hurricane Sandy and new flood maps that added 36,000 buildings to the floodplain. It presents a 5-step methodology for identifying flood risk and suitable retrofitting strategies for 10 case study buildings representing common typologies. For each, it describes the site context, construction, available options, and…
Rebuilding by Design – Resilient planning for flood-prone communities in the USA
A comprehensive resilience strategy developed after Hurricane Sandy, Rebuilding by Design enhances flood protection, infrastructure, and social equity in vulnerable U.S. coastal regions. The project promotes collaborative, design-driven solutions for long-term sustainability.
Inspired by New York city's proposed lower Manhattan protective berm system - Big U, t he recommended berm system with waterfront parkland can protect city of Sydney and reduce the potential damage...
Creating a flood resilient Indian ‘Sheher’ through Water Sensitive Urban Design
This is third in the ongoing series of blogs on Urban India Going Underwater. Read the first and second blogs here.
Creating a flood resilient city: Moving from disaster response to disaster resilience in Ibadan
The Eleyele Dam spillway in Ibadan was damaged during the 2011 flood. Ivan Bruce, World Bank As we reflect on 2017, the truly devastating impact of climate change is being felt across the globe. The evidence has never been clearer that the impact of climate change is happening now. The World ...
Students: Dana Kelley and Danielle Valle-Steele. Carlton’s Wharf, adjacent to LoPresti Park, in the Boston Harbor. Aim of project to combat climate change with coastal resilient solutions. First assignment - create an artificial ground that soaks up water during natural disasters (potential storm surges, future sea level rise), They responded to annual flooding with a sculpted landscape that embraces the water and accepts some edges remain flooded over time. Site 2020, 2040, 2060
Ten Ways to Manage Flood Risk by Designing for Exceedance | Smart Cities Dive
At the core of this thesis, are four main questions. - How can neighbourhoods in Chennai (India) build resilience against flooding? - How can we address the depleting social cohesiveness of our cities through a flood centric design strategy? - How can this excess water be used to service Chennai during its months of drought? ...
A Framework to Evaluate Urban Flood Resilience of Design Alternatives for Flood Defence Considering Future Adverse Scenarios
In urbanized plains that are subject to flooding, the socioeconomic aspects, climate characteristics, built environment, and riverine processes exhibit bi-univocal relationships with the flood formation itself, creating a pattern of development without a predefined equilibrium state. The complexity of processes involved in flood management and the need for a comparative assessment method to hierarchise different design alternatives or planning scenarios requires practical and quantitative…
ollow @urbandesign.lab Water & Culture, Adaptation & Integration The survival and development of the city of Maastricht are facing enormous threats from the increasingly frequent and severe fluvial floods, while the leisure industry is the most vulnerable to flood damage as a crucial segment of the economy, accounting for about 50% of the total economic damage. However, flooding is essentially just a natural process with numerous ecological benefits, and can even stimulate diverse…
