Water as Leverage REFLECT
Reflects on key outcomes and lessons learned from the Rebuild by Design-inspired process Water as Leverage in the Netherlands.
Redesigning the design competition
Discusses the transformative capacity of Rebuild by Design in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Rebuild by Design (part of LSE Urban Age “Shaping Cities”)
Explores the spatial and social dynamics of cities worldwide, including a section that focuses on Rebuild by Design as written by Rebuild Principal Henk Ovink.
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City
Discusses what games and play can reveal about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how gaming, in models like the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, can help us understand the dynamics underlying interurban competition in city development.
In Harm’s Way
Explores how communities around the U.S. have built local climate resilience, with a Foreword from Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild.
Institutional conditions for inclusive, flood resilient urban deltas: A comparative institutional analysis of two international resilience programs in southeast asia
Water: Focuses on the role of international resilience programs and investigates how these programs can enable institutional transformation.
Water as Leverage: Design Studies for Khulna, Chennai and Semarang
SeaCities: Focuses on presenting Water as Leverage proactive integral design strategies in three Asian cities: Khulna, Chennai and Semarang. Through the three projects, the chapter shows how several water management measures on different scales can be combined in integral design proposals that, in addition to addressing climate change, also improve the urban quality and liveability …
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Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach
Sustainability: Addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. It looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems.
Designing for Resilience in Rich Coastal Cities (and Beyond)
Provides insight into different climate change adaptation plans in the United States that use participatory long-term resilience planning and collaborative design processes.
Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice.
Examines the politics around climate change response strategies in three cities—New York, Jakarta, and Rotterdam— and the mobilization of grassroots activists to fight the perceived injustices and oversights of these plans.
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