CRUX

06/16/2015

“Construction matters, but long-term resilience happens in the space between buildings (community) ”

11/24/2014

"Bending but not breaking is not just about physical adaptations; it can be social too. São Paulo, Brazil, is vulnerable to riverine flooding. (...) From the helicopter, the city is a fascinating quilt of luxurious towers and hyper dense favelas, cheek by jowl. (...) To reduce the city's vulnerability to climate change shock, it may be more important for São Paulo to increase its social resilience than its physical resilience." (A. Washburn, The Nature of Urban Design)

11/20/2014

"Our success in managing our cities will parallel our success in managing our environment. Nature and the city are one.
The interdependency between cities and nature needs to be quantified to be believed, especially because the paradigm goes contrary to centuries of tradition and law that posited nature as separate from humankind." (A. Washburn, The Nature of Urban Design)

The best cities become an ingrained part of their residents’ identities.  Urban design is the key to this process, but all too often, citizens abandon it to professionals, unable to see a way to express what they love and value in their own neighborhoods. In this visually rich book, Al...

11/20/2014

CRUX at the Physical and Social Infrastructure Resiliency Workshop

11/18/2014

Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast two years ago, but the effects of her tumultuous path can still be seen. Although hurricanes, typhoons, and tsunamis are unlikely to hit the New York City area, t...

11/13/2014

"We are expecting a million more New Yorkers in a generation. To provide homes and jobs, we have to use the land we have more intensely. If you overlay a map of New York City subway system, our strategy becomes clear. We have up-zoned near transit stops and down-zoned in areas served only by cars. Our increased density comes on top of our transit system. This is called transit-oriented development, or TOD. Although other cities may be just now waking up to its virtues, New York has practiced TOD since the first subways were built a century ago. TOD is New York's DNA." (A. Washburn, The Nature of Urban Design)

11/11/2014

The blog of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, with contributions from the Maternal Health Initiative, China Environment Forum, and more

11/04/2014

On November 19th Alex Washburn will be presenting at ArqFuturo in Rio de Janeiro

The singer loves returning to her home town of Rio, for its food, drink, music and beaches, as well as for the memories it holds

10/29/2014

Alan Blumberg, member of CRUX, on Fox News:

Dr. Alan Blumberg says key lies in ocean temperature

10/29/2014

Alex Washburn in a debate with Liu Thai Ker, the Chief Planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore, on the nature of urban design. *Brazilian broadcast*

Toda a história tem dois lados. Todo diagnostico pede uma segunda opinião. O que importa é perspectiva e isso nunca é demais. O Milênio discute a arquitetura urbana com Alexandros Washburns e Liu Thai Ker. O programa vai ar no dia 3 de novembro às 23h30!

10/29/2014

Today, on the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, NYC Department of City Planning released a study for buildings in exposed coastal locations

Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk

10/28/2014

http://www.stevens.edu/news/content/stevens-receives-port-authority-award-bolster-coastal-resiliency-predict-storm-surges

Physics Department Seminar: Dr. Zbigniew Ficek, The National Centre for Applied Physics; Entanglement and steering of entanglement in a multi-mode optomechanical system