Insuring Resilient Urbanism: Adapting the National Flood Insurance Program to meet long-term needs in urban environments
by Trevor Johnson (MUP ’14) and Alison Tramba (MUP ’14) The National Flood Insurance Program…
by Trevor Johnson (MUP ’14) and Alison Tramba (MUP ’14) The National Flood Insurance Program…
Since 2012, this project has been investigating how development organizations establish, and act on, priorities…
Students of the Disaster Field Lab: Creating Resilient Cities proved their mettle Monday, May 13, as they showcased projects with practical implications for intervention and future planning in the communities affected by Superstorm Sandy. Attended by a jury that included Loeb Fellows, GSD faculty, disaster experts and community representatives, they displayed the innovation, creativity, social awareness and problem-solving abilities for which the GSD is famous.
Following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, WBUR's Renee Loth highlights the new MDesS concentration, Risk and Resilience, designed to address “the inevitability of unpredictable shocks to the built and natural environmen.”
The great disaster of March 11, 2011 differed from any other catastrophe since the 1755…
The sources and forms of social and political violence have been extensively examined, but the…
Oscar Malaspina (MAUD ’13), Adriana Chavez (MArch ’13), and Einat Rosenkrantz Amon (MAUD ’13) traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to…
by Christopher L. Cosper (MDesS ’13) Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August…
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 turned the already critical shortage of housing in Haiti…