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1 IMAGE: MITCAU + ZUS + URBANISTEN Image by Iwan Baan OMA TEAM OMA TEAM IMAGE: SCAPE TEAM IMAGE: WXY/West8 TEAM IMAGE: PENN DESIGN / OLIN IMAGE: BIG TEAM 10/10/16 sbury Park Capacity-Building: The City of Asbury Park 100 Resilient Cities: Railvolution Amy Chester, Managing Director SANDY UNVEILED INTERDEPENDENT VULNERABILITIES ACROSS THE REGION Rebuild by Design is a process that brings together global and local expertise, regional leadership and local vision to tackle multidimensional problems that harness and cultivate strong stakeholder support and government leadership. TYPICAL DESIGN PROCESS Site Budget SABBATICAL DESIGN DETOUR ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE URBAN DESIGN Program Square Footage Timeline URBAN PLANNING REGIONAL APPROACH SCALES and TIME 1

2 Asbury Park Capacity-Building: The City of Asbury Park HUD Rebuild by Design HR&A Advisors with Cooper, Robertson & Partners 65 10/10/16 OUR PROCESSS TWO STAGE PROCESS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE DESIGN COLLABRATIVE RESEARCH COLLABRATIVE DESIGN EVENTS Site Visits Tours Panel Discussions Community Roundtables Neighborhood Leader Engagement Design Critiques Data Analysis Analysis of All Stakeholders Government Agency Meetings Meetings w existing coalitions Forming new coalitions Creating unusual events (bike tours, dance parties, movie screenings, parade) Design Charrettes Brainstorming sessions Site tours Wholesale Presentations at existing meetings PROJECTS FUNDING ANNOUNCED: $930Million USD NEW YORK CITY: $335M: The BIG U in Manhattan, NY $20M: Lifelines in Hunts Point, Bronx, NY NEW JERSEY: $230M: Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge in Hoboken,Weehawken, Jersey City, NJ $150M: New Meadowlands in Little Ferry, Moonachie,Carlstadt, Teterboro, NJ PROJECT EXAMPLES FROM THE SANDY REGION MIT TEAM THE BIG TEAM NEW YORK STATE: $125MLiving with the Bay in Nassau County, Long Island $60M: Living Breakwaters in Tottenville, Staten Island, NY SASAKI TEAM CONNECTICUIT $10M: Resilient Bridgeport in Bridgeport, CT 2

3 The BIG U BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) One Architecture Starr Whitehouse Buro Happold Level Agency for Infrastructure James Lima Planning + Development Green Shield Ecology AEA Consulting, Arcadis Project Projects, Parsons School of Constructed Environments 3

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6 PINE BARRENS DOUBLE TROUBLE STATE PARK TOMS RIVER TOMS RIVER TO BARNEGAT LIGHTHOUSE STATE PARK TO CATTUS ISLAND COUNTY PARK BARNEGAT BAY 10/10/16 VULNERABLE ECONOMIES THE SHORE S TOURISM ECONOMY IS DRIVEN BY THE UNDERLYING COASTAL ECOLOGY Resilience + The Beach Sasaki Rutgers University Arup BILLIONS OF DOLLARS NEW JERSEY TOURISM $28 Summer Swell PERCENT OF TOTAL NEW JERSEY LODGING SALES GENERATED IN THE STUDY AREA 74% AVG. INCOME OF A SHORE TOURIST AVG. INCOME OF A SHORE RESIDENT $99,000 $39,000 Car Culture PERCENT OF VISITORS THAT TRAVEL TO THE JERSEY SHORE VIA PRIVATE CAR 89% PERCENT OF ALL MAJOR TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONS IN THE STUDY AREA THAT ARE CONGESTED SIXTY PERCENT ROUTE 37 DIVIDED URBAN FABRIC, DIVIDED CULTURE NEW ECO-TOURISM HUB ACCESS TO BARRIER ISLAND GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MOBILITY CONNECTIONS ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIONS PLANNED ECOTOURISM SITE 6

7 RESILIENT JERSEY SHORE New Meadowlands: Productive City + Regional Park MIT CAU ZUS URBANISTEN Deltares 75B Volker Infra Design Pilots at the Intersection of Risk and Opportunity 7

8 FRESH WATER MARSH MEADOW HILLS WETLAND WILDLIFE SANCTUARY WHITE CEDAR FOREST TIDAL RIVER WETLAND 10/10/16 Pilot Area Benefits FLOOD PROTECTION Physical damage to structures avoided per year: $37 million Pilot Area Benefits HEALTH NEW RESIDENTS Health value of recreation space Overall proposed 14,414 new for the current population of residents: $3.3 million per year. residential units = 25,674 new residents JOBS Overall proposed 9,716,455 new commercial and Industrial sqft. = 2429 new jobs WETLANDS Value of new wetlands: $5,290,928 per year ACCESS Value of new recreation space in proximity to current residents: $41,175 per year NEW DEVELOPMENT Net value for new construction of residential and commercial development amounts to $19 billion. TAX REVENUE The area could expect an increase in tax revenue totaled at $561,760,390 Million 8

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