A group of architects wants to keep the Big Apple high and dry

Come along with The Verge for the secondseason of Detours. We’ve traveled across the country to find the people, groups, and companies that are solving America’s problems in new and unconventional ways.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed homes, wasted businesses, flooded tunnels, and submerged subways. The storm brought tens of thousands of lives to a halt, and revealed New York City’s vulnerabilities to severe climate conditions and rising waters.

“I saw the devastation,” says Henk Ovink. “But, I also saw the opportunity Sandy brought.”

Ovink is the former director general of water planning in the Netherlands, a country that’s been dealing with flooding and water management on a huge scale for centuries. In the aftermath of Sandy, Ovink brought his knowledge Stateside and joined the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiative to rebuild and reinforce the New Jersey and New York coastline....Continue Reading

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