climate resilience - The Handbuilt City

Greener Streets, Safer Streets: Less Flooding Through Better Transportation Infrastructure

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments woonerf, pervious, rainwater retention, rainwater detention, rainwater, rain, resilient, MDOT engineers, mdot, impervious, resilient infrastructure, urban heat island, weather, water treatment, water infiltration, vision zero, traffic calming, riparian buffer, streets, street trees, street grids, street grid, storms, shade trees, safe streets, road engineering, hardscaping, climate change, climate adaptation, climate, buffer, black locust, bioswale, bioretention, albedo, climate resilience, flooding, floodwater, floodwaters, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, detroit street grid, detroit flooding

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and

Adaptation & Resilience Environment

Shrink a Yard, Grow a Beach: Housing on Feeder Bluffs

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Vishva Nalamalapu 0 Comments puget sound, port angeles, land erosion, juan de fuca, washington state, washington, victoria, strait of juan de fuca, soil erosion, sequim, climate resilience, climate adaptation, british columbia, bluffs, bluff armoring, beaches, beach, ediz hook, erosion, coastal armoring, elwha bluffs, feeder bluffs, dungeness spit, dungeness, cordilleran ice sheet, cordilleran glacial retreat, coastal erosion

One day, a resident of Port Angeles, Washington could swing in a hammock in his backyard and look out over

Adaptation & Resilience Climate

Climate Change Is Here, And Boy Is It Ever Expensive!

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments resilience, hurricanes, hurricane maria, resiliency, hurricane, hurricane laura, hurricane harvey, climate change, climate adaptation, california wildfires, california, climate resilience, florida

If we fail to push for market transformation oriented toward climate adaptation solutions, the market will do it on its own. Like, in a really bad way. This has the unintended consequence, however, of incentivizing better decisions about development and planning.

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Environment

Land Hurricanes, Resilient Design, And Other Stuff To Think About

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments resilience, residential construction, panelized construction, midwest, iowa, ICF, wind resistance, wind, weather, storms, climate, climate change, climate resilience, grinnell, derecho, construction, extreme weather

Extreme weather, like the recent derecho storm that ripped through Iowa, is exposing the fragility of the built environment. Fortunately, in thinking about how to protect ourselves, we have the ability to combine human technological ingenuity with the systems nature already built.

Urban Planning

A Literal Train Wreck Makes A Case For Resilient Infrastructure

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments resilience, rail, investor-owned utilities, infrastructure, utility infrastructure, climate change, climate adaptation, climate resilience

A train derailment yesterday morning in Southwest Detroit knocked down a power line, leaving about a thousand residential and commercial