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…
Topic Resilience
Priority Setting Amid the Rubble: Organizational Responses to Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Haiti
Since 2012, this project has been investigating how development organizations establish, and act on, priorities…
Creating Resilient Cities, part 2: studio presentations
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.
Risk and resilience: new MDesS concentration featured on WBUR.com
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.”
Kengo Kuma, “After March 11th”
The great disaster of March 11, 2011 differed from any other catastrophe since the 1755…
Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Conflict
The sources and forms of social and political violence have been extensively examined, but the…
Design for Disasters, Bangkok, Thailand
Oscar Malaspina (MAUD ’13), Adriana Chavez (MArch ’13), and Einat Rosenkrantz Amon (MAUD ’13) traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to…
Time-Honored Versus Bigger and Better: Critical and Strategic Conservation in Post-Katrina Mississippi
by Christopher L. Cosper (MDesS ’13) Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August…
Sanriku Project, Minamisanriku, Japan
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Designing Process: Creating long-term replicable community building solutions in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 turned the already critical shortage of housing in Haiti…