Nate Berg, from The Guardian, tells the story of Rebuild By Design, a competition – and now its own organisation – based on taking a more proactive approach to disaster response in cities; but how far can you prepare for the effects of climate change?

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Based on hundreds of years of Dutch flood prevention experience, Ovink’s approach called for a systematic rethinking of American traditional disaster response: to simply rebuild whatever was destroyed.

''Instead we needed to ask not just how can we build back, how can we repair, but how can we look at the future?'' Ovink explains. ''This was not only about rethinking how our governments work, but how we think about future uncertainties like climate change.''.......Continue Reading

Top image: The BIG U proposal was designed to protect Lower Manhattan from the impacts of a changing climate. Image courtesy of Rebuild by Design

> via The Guardian