Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency
Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) refers to a range of climate change adaptation strategies of coastal management to address impacts on the city in the wake of the extensive Hurricane Sandy flooding of 2012.[1]
A more localized alternative to the New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier, it has some continuity with the centuries-long Lower Manhattan expansion trend and seeks to compensate for the historical loss of wetland buffer zones, and would be integrated into the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.
History
[edit]After Sandy, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg differed on their preferred infrastructure responses, with Cuomo favoring a storm barrier to protect the entire estuary, and Bloomberg localized protection for Lower Manhattan inspired by Battery Park City. Several studies have been commissioned since, including the BIG U from Bjarke Ingels Group for a semi-circle of berms that would allow small-scale controlled floods,[2] in contrast with the more ambitious seawall proposals.[3] Their 2014 plan largely involved constructing a series of berms in Lower Manhattan, inland from the shoreline.[4][5][6] but has been deemed inadequate in parts and too costly to maintain.
Bloomberg's 2013 concept of "Seaport City"[9] has been replaced by the FiDi-Seaport plan,[10] as part of the wider LMCR initiative by the De Blasio administration. It updates the BIG U with more substantial land reclamation that could be funded and finished, avoiding the occasional temporary flooding of the earlier plan and its maintenance costs.[11][12] Initial plans focus on landfilling and building up East River Park.[13][14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency". edc.nyc. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "The BIG U". www.architectmagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Barnard, Anne (2020-01-17). "The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (2014-10-25). "Building for the Next Big Storm". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ "NYC: The BIG U". Rebuild by Design. 9 April 2023.
- ^ "The BIG U". American Planning Association.
- ^ Green, Jared (June 20, 2019). "Berms Aren't Enough: NYC Shifts Course on "Big U" Resilience Plan". THE DIRT.
- ^ "Ripples of Resilience: Lower Manhattan's Diverse Waterfront Communities; Waterfront Alliance". December 3, 2020.
- ^ Quirk, Vanessa (2013-08-02). "Bloomberg Moves Forward with Controversial Seaport City". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "The Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan". FiDi Seaport Climate. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "BIG U APRIL 2019 UPDATE – Rebuild by Design". www.rebuildbydesign.org. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Green, Jared (2019-06-20). "Berms Aren't Enough: NYC Shifts Course on "Big U" Resilience Plan". THE DIRT. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Hanania, Joseph (2019-01-18). "To Save East River Park, the City Intends to Bury It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (2021-12-02). "What Does It Mean to Save a Neighborhood?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.