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4 Transforming New York City
4 Transforming New York City
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diverted from the traditional approach to rebuilding and facilitated an international design competition to determine the best designs for rebuilding in the region affected by Hurricane Sandy. What made the competition particularly unique, Chaudhury said, was that at the beginning of the competition, the design teams were not asked to solve problems in any predefined area or to solve any specific issue; instead, the groups were tasked with codefining the problems, and only once they defined the problems did they come up with solutions for the problem or problems that they had identified.
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Institute for Public Knowledge provided the research base." Chaudhury noted that the Institute for Public Knowledge is headed by Eric Klinenberg, author of the seminal work Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster, in which he discussed how a lack of social connectedness exacerbated the effects of the 1995 Chicago heat wave and led to far more deaths than would have occurred in a more socially cohesive place (Klinenberg, 2002)
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They were required to look at all of the past plans, all of the planned past vision documents, and to really think about what was going on prior to Sandy and make sure that that was integrated -- or at least acknowledged -- for their final proposal." A significant part of the final score in the design competition depended on how much input that the community had in the design, Chaudhury said. The committee scoring the competition looked at the design proposals created prior to the community collaboration and at how much the proposals changed after the teams had worked with the community.
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"It made sense to have a cooking competition there and have judges decide on what food is the best and then talk about what it meant for Hunts Point to be a food distribution center in the wake of Hurricane Sandy." In Bridgeport, Connecticut, the design team hosted a bike tour and then had a discussion following the bike tour to engage young people in the community and hear their ideas concerning the future of Bridgeport. In Asbury Park, New Jersey, which Chaudhury described as a "heavily divided" community, the design team facilitated an effort in which the community worked together to create a parade from two different places within the neighborhood; after the parade the design team hosted a discussion in which people talked about what they thought the future of Asbury Park should look like.
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South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the United States, Chaudhury said, and it has the highest rate of asthma in New York City. But it is also a key distribution point for much of the food that is eaten by the inhabitants of New York City and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.
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That group worked with local oyster farmers to consider what is going on in the water off Staten Island and how to use the cultivated oyster beds to act as living breakwaters to help protect the coast from storm surges and sea level rise. Lynn Goldman asked for more details about the competition and how the proposals were selected for funding.
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" Part of the answer, Chaudhury said, is that the lead community group is THE POINT Community Development Corporation, which has been in the area for 20 years. "I don't think they are going anywhere." Because the residents and the various community-based organizations actually bought into the plans and had an integral part in their development, it is much more likely that they will remain motivated to make sure that the plans are true to the proposals that they helped create.
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'" The key was that the global knowledge and insights of the experts were combined with the local knowledge and insights of the community members to come up with solutions that were informed by outside experiences but guided by what the local people knew and what they wanted for their community. An audience member who identified herself as working for a consumer products company commented that the company uses cocreation in the development of its products.
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2002. Heat wave: A social autopsy of disaster.
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