Soft Waterfront Infrastructure to Protect NYC From the next Big Storm

Thanks to climate change, we've experienced some wild storms the past couple of years, culminating in Hurricane Sandy,  which hit the city with record devastation. To make matters worse, NYC is slowly succumbing to rising sea levels, which threaten to sink coastal neighborhoods throughout the boroughs. In light of a possible environmental disaster, a group of architecture firms have united to tackle these issues with innovative green design. Taking lessons from levee design flaws in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, these architects have created "soft infrastructure," a design concept based on priming the city to "deal with storms instead of fortify itself against them" by using natural resources like coastal marshlands and building more sustainable infrastructure like green roofs.

Read more: Architects Propose 'Soft Waterfront Infrastructure' to Protect NYC From the Next Big Storm | Inhabitat New York City

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