![]() ![]() When you talk to folks like Jill Eisenhard, the founding director of RHI, she really emphasizes how they had to face systemic, structural oppression and that these are place-based struggles. These networks were already in place to fend off other disasters, like displacement. ![]() And they’ve continued, now with maybe more attention to climate issues and disasters. The storm may have jump-started some of the specific actions, but the real work was already being done well before. On the Lower East Side, organizers from Good Old Lower East Side built coalitions and led participatory engagement with planners and designers and continued to oppose luxury developments. They’ve continued to develop the community-based Red Hook WiFi program, which was so critical immediately after the storm, and advocated for public-housing residents against closures of parks and wholesale disruption of the housing projects. The Red Hook Initiative built upon its work with constituents to develop self-reliance and collective social capital to help vulnerable community members and get the word out. In both these neighborhoods, we saw community organizations relying on their histories of organizing and social-network building. Your book focuses on two vulnerable New York neighborhoods, Red Hook and the Lower East Side, that were hit hard by Sandy. ![]() As communities brace for the inevitable next storm, Goh spoke to Curbed about “water squares,” why cities need to shift their infrastructural focus to maintenance, and what the word resilience really means. In her new book, Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice, Goh looks at a decade of climate-adaptation plans in three cities - Rotterdam, Jakarta, and New York - and how the goals of global think tanks are often at odds with the grassroots efforts of local groups. As flash floods over the past few months have evoked Sandy’s deadly storm surge, the lessons learned from the 2012 disaster have been on the mind of Kian Goh, an architect and urban-planning professor at UCLA, where she is the associate director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Nine years ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New York City, killing 44 people, destroying 70,000 homes, and causing $19 billion in damage. When Red Hook was cut off from the rest of the city during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, community groups relied on their histories of organizing to form self-reliant networks. ![]()
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