The planning impacts and solutions include: - understanding what it means for a neighborhood to move beyond physical infrastructure resiliency projects to deeper community resiliency projects - understanding the role of community groups in taking on community stewardship that moved beyond typically property boundaries, including interactions with city agencies and private property owners - understanding how a community resiliency project can bring together STEM education, workforce training and resiliency efforts - understanding how design elements, such as signage that calls out "dune restoration" elements, play an important role in broadening community education - understanding how a planning and design firm (WXY) can shift from their role designing the Rockaway Boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy to a long-term relationship with a local community group - understanding how WXY was able to utilize engagement skills to develop youth curriculum and training - understanding the importance of broader dissemination of the RISE model; including social media, presentations, videos, etc.
The attendees will learn about how NYC high school students in the Rockaways Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE) Shorecorps have developed hands-on knowledge of urban planning and resiliency.
The attendees will learn about how the RISE Shorecorps is supporting a new model of community resiliency by focusing on the planting of seagrasses on vulnerable coastal dunes.
The attendees will learn about how coastal resiliency through the planting of dunes. Plant roots to hold sand in place and can mitigate the impact of storm surges.
