What: OpenUrban is hosting an urban development map-a-thon as part of the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival When: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. Where: The New School, 66 W. 12th Street (Orozco Room, 7th Floor), New York, NY For Whom: This should be of interest to urban planners, urban designers, architects, community mapping […]
Tag Archives: hurricane
A 2011 report for the city predicted the damage a storm-surge would cause.
Just six weeks before Hurricane Sandy struck, The New York Times highlighted New York City’s vulnerabilities in a future of rising sea-levels due to climate change. In 2009, Mayor Bloomberg appointed Dr. Klaus Jacob, a Columbia University Professor of Engineering to a panel on Climate Change. He recently appeared on the Morning Show Up with Chris Hayes, where he was asked about […]
Learning Lessons from Sandy
This storm and aftermath has been one of those times when our own frailty and the immense power of nature has been made painfully clear. This is no reason to lose heart, since we humans have proven to be pretty resilient in the face of all sorts of disasters. Part of this resilience is due […]
Hurricane Sandy - A picture (map) is worth a thousand words.
Hurricanes and cyclones are global weather events which require the mapping capabilities of weather satellites. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency focused on the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. National Weather Service is part of the NOAA and it keeps track of hurricane activity on both coasts of the United […]
Hurricane Reading
Since a Frankenstorm and related full moon events are likely troubling our New York area readership, I thought I would offer some Monday reading suggestions. For those looking to take their minds off of all the anticipated hurricane-crazed werewolf attacks… For those of you who prefer Utilitarianism to Pareto and are fans of mass transit, […]
