The Post-Sandy Grid: Unequal Yet Superior?
A two-tier power system could deliver electricity more dependably to everyone.

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Answers for an Age of Extremes
Guy Nordenson writes about calls for a hazards-reduction program for floods following Hurricane Sandy.

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Design for Troubled Waters
Cities need to grapple with complex ideas to prepare for the next superstorm.

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Bracing for Change
The lessons of Sandy provide clues for how to adapt existing buildings.

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It Happened Here: Hurricane Sandy's Impact
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, New Yorkers watched in horror as residents climbed onto rooftops, stranded, or fled to shelters that provided precious little shelter. For all kinds of reasons New Yorkers believed that "it could never happen here." But for a few days this fall, it very nearly did.

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Storm Surge Barriers Work
Exposed towns, cities and even nations, such as The Netherlands, have slowly and quietly been building up storm surge defenses to protect themselves for decades, averting millions of dollars in damages as a result.

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Addressing the Role of Design After the Storm
A panel convened Thursday night by the New York Chapter of the AIA tackled difficult planning questions raised in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

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Hurricane Recovery: How to Help
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many in the design community have stepped up to help those struggling to recover and rebuild. If you're looking for a way to support the relief effort, this list includes several organizations helping communities affected by the storm.

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Architects Respond to a Call for Post-Sandy Aid
Volunteers will work around legal roadblocks to help assess storm-ravaged neighborhoods.

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Water Lessons
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Dutch experts assert that New York needs hybrid solutions for our changing natural surroundings.

Revisiting MoMA's Prescient "Rising Currents" Exhibition
The exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, which ran at the Museum of Modern Art in New York two years ago, provided a look into the future‹and this past week, that future arrived, in the form of the catastrophic storm surge from Hurricane Sandy. We asked several of the MoMA show's participants what the Federal government and New York City should do next.

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Hurricane Sandy's Havoc on New York City Architecture
Projects by Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel, as well as ongoing work at the World Trade Center site, were inundated by the storm surge that accompanied Hurricane Sandy.

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Early Hurricane Sandy Winds Partially Collapse Crane at NYC "Billionaire's Haven"
As Hurricane Sandy approached Manhattan, her winds knocked over a crane atop One57, the rising $1.5 billion residential tower designed by Christian de Portzamparc opposite Carnegie Hall, and left it dangling dangerously 1,000 feet over West 57th Street until it could be secured after the storm.

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