Presentation from last night's panel at the Center for Architecture in NYC. The program was called "Water 2.0, Building a Resilient Community." My presentation was entitled: "Social Resiliency: from Red Hook to Rotterdam and back." Topics I tried to cover included: post-Sandy planning and redevelopment of Red Hook; Pratt Institute's RAMP initiative; the CSO reduction and green infrastructure work of Zehra Kuz and Jaime Stein, and the redevelopment of the RDM Shipyard in Rotterdam as the RDM Campus.

1. Water 2.0
Building a Resilient Future
Increasing Social Resiliency
From Red Hook to Rotterdam
and back
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Policy
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Vulnerable physically and socially

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8. RAMP: Recovery, Adaptation, Mitigation & Planning
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• Post-Sandy initiative of Pratt’s
Programs for Sustainable
Planning & Development (PSPD)
• Suite of studios, classes, and
public programs
• Working with community
partners to address issues of
recovery, sustainability, and
resilience in the face of climate
change
• Capacity and delivery

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Objective 1:
Develop Efficient and Effective ways to
Disseminate Disaster Related
Communication for Preparedness,
Response, and Recovery
Objective 2:
Incorporate Vulnerable Populations in
Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Planning

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Objective 3:
Strengthen capacity of Community-Based
Organizations and Small Businesses to
Withstand Disaster, Continue Operations,
and Rebound
Objective 4:
Improve the Resiliency of Sewage, Power,
Telecommunications, and Transportation
Infrastructure Networks

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Objective 5:
Fortify the Ability of the Built
Environment to withstand Storm
Surge and Flooding
Objective 6:
Ensure Social, Economic, and
Environmental Justice in Future
Development and Planning

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Creating a district-wide
Green Infrastructure
program
• Top down and
bottom up
• From the block scale
up to the sewershed
• Incorporating
building
characteristics
including bulk,
density, facade
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Satellite image of Brooklyn
with the extent of the Red
Hook Sewershed highlighted

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16. Show typical block

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+ Climate Mitigation
+ Climate Adaptation

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Rotterdam City ports area

19. Drivers for change in port city Rotterdam
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• Changing economy and the need for human capital and
workforce development
• Climate change & environmental issues in port & city
• Redevelopment of brownfield areas into mixed use zones
• Ambition to be the smartest port in the world

20. RDM: Research, Design & Manufacturing
RDM Campus is a living place where students and companies
collaborate in an open environment and focus on new economic
activity and sustainable solutions for a resilient port and city

21. Goals
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• New future for industrial heritage of shipyard and village
• Respect for historical DNA but future proof ambitions
• Educate talent for future needs of port and city
• Create a breeding place for innovations in applied tech & design

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Functions
• Engineering
• Cooperation
of companies
• Sharing
Facilities
• Arts &
Events

23. Key-enablers & Founding Partners
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24. Redevelopment: before
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Redevelopment: Before

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RDM Campus, Rotterdam

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Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise
back to Brooklyn…

27. Resilience Education, Training & Innovation (RETI)
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28. Growing consortium:
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30. Who Gets In? How can we support them?

31. “Our Next Economy” Forum
Brooklyn Borough Hall, Nov. 19 2016
• Can investments in community and infrastructure help to catalyze new
work opportunities for the un- & under-employed?
• Are there education and training programs that can be expanded or
adapted to help address these needs?
• What policies and additional investments are needed to help ensure
that investments in climate adaption are supported by a viable financial
and human framework?

32. Expand Social Resilience through Investments in
the Workforce
In New York there are 22 specific types of construction and
building O&M jobs where only a high school diploma or a GED is
needed to get a foot in the door;
• “Getting a job is one step, but what about promotion? How can
today’s entry level workers get ahead, and move up the ladder
in their field?”
- David Gibbs, T4D Lab
• “There are great opportunities not just for employment, but
also for community equity and ownership in these assets.”
- Morris Cox, bloc power

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reticenterbrooklyn@gmail.com

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@NLinNY
@cartercraft
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@NLinNY @cartercraft
facebook.com/NLinNewYork
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