The New Resilient City

Big Infrastructure Meets Community Fabric

This panel on creating a livable, resilient city featured leading landscape architects, urban designers, policy experts, urban planners, infrastructure engineers, and community organizers.


Hosted by The Municipal Art Society of New York and HR&A Advisors, Inc.



PARTICIPANTS


  • John Boule

    Vice President, Parsons Brinkerhoff

  • Ruth Finkelstein

    Senior Vice President, Policy and Planning,
    The New York Academy of Medicine

  • John Headland

    Commissioner, Moffatt & Nichol Engineers

  • Adam Lubinski

    Managing Principal, WXY architecture + urban design

  • Henk Ovink

    Senior Advisor,
    U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan;
    Chair, Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force;
    Director, Rebuild by Design

  • Jamie Torres-Springer

    Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc.

  • Mary Rowe

    Managing Director, The Municipal Art Society of New York

  • Laura Starr

    Principal, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners;
    President, American Society of Landscape Architects, New York

  • Joan Byron

    Director of Policy, Pratt Center for Community Development

IDEAS FOR THE MAYOR-ELECT

Event Highlights:

"Since the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, one of the main things we must grapple with is how we think about major infrasturucure in a densely built city."

 

- Jamie Torres-Springer, Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc.
 

"Reinventing and maintaining the fabric of communities through resiliency measures can be a part of the next administration."

 

- Jamie Torres-Springer, Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc.

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