Saturday, August 24, 2013

Can Cities Adjust to a Retreating Coastline?

A rendering of a plan for Lower Manhattan with tidal marshes and wetlands that could absorb storm surges, created by the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio.
Who could ever imagine a politician standing on a coastline proclaiming, "We will retreat!"
But somehow, that's what has to be done.  Finding a way to have a realistic discussion of where to hold firm and where to pull back, where to gird and where to let nature dominate, has to happen to limit costs and other regrets in thousands of coastal cities and smaller communities around the world.

Can Cities Adjust to a Retreating Coastline?

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