This book offers a window into the Rebuild by Design competition, including its origins, participants, process, and the innovate designs that it generated.

Named first among CNN’s Top 10 Ideas of 2013 , Rebuild by Design represents an evolutionary advance in generating resilient solutions for an uncertain future clouded by climate change.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild by Design gathered the talent of the world and the leadership of the region in an innovative design competition that placed substantive collaboration - between designers, researchers, community members, and government of!cials - at the heart of an iterative creative process. It resulted in ten visionary design proposals that address the intersection of physical, social, and ecological resiliency. Moreover, its inclusive process has provoked a paradigm shift in the way that planners and governments approach both disaster response and emergency preparedness.

This book offers a window into the Rebuild by Design competition, including its origins, participants, process, and the innovate designs that it generated.

Named first among CNN’s Top 10 Ideas of 2013 , Rebuild by Design represents an evolutionary advance in generating resilient solutions for an uncertain future clouded by climate change.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild by Design gathered the talent of the world and the leadership of the region in an innovative design competition that placed substantive collaboration - between designers, researchers, community members, and government of!cials - at the heart of an iterative creative process. It resulted in ten visionary design proposals that address the intersection of physical, social, and ecological resiliency. Moreover, its inclusive process has provoked a paradigm shift in the way that planners and governments approach both disaster response and emergency preparedness.