Miami Resiliency

Vote here to promote education and action in Miami in the face of rising sea levels!
(Public Space Challenge)
http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/171990

Rising with the Sea Level of Miami We will turn this old, dilapidated house into a model of simple environmental resilience and sustainability. We will raise the foundation of the house in order to bring it well above the rising sea and flood levels. Then we will perform various inexpensive landscape changes and building retrofits, s...

11 U.S. Cities Tapped to Spur 'Climate Resiliency' Action Worldwide American cities on the frontline of climate action are quietly but dramatically shifting their approach—from primarily trying to limit global warming to coping with its impacts. They're building forested buffers to shelter homes from wildfires, considering concrete sea walls to restrain ocean waters...

Overtown Site:

Winner: #37 Jiajing Cao and Isabel Sarmiento

Honorable Mention: #40
Stephanie Riofrio, Gerardo Delgadillo, Ariana Melendez, and john Gonzalez

Honorable Mention: #58
Matthew Smith, Rhys Gilbertson, Ebrahim Alkalifa, and Erron Estado

Little Havana Site:

Winner: #64 Maria Eduarda Oliviera, Katja Kuznik, Nicolas Alcega, Mingxuan Qin

Honorable Mention: #41
Smitha Vasan, Fadak Dashti, Mary Wissinger and Corey Weiss

Honorable Mention: #48
Jessica Stefanick, Sebastian Torrente, Lacey Stansell, and Amanda Ai

Honorable Mention: #53
Danielle Todd, Alexandra Babowice, Jaimie McPhedran

Thanks all for the great event!! We're so happy to have AIA Miami and FIU friends stop by our home :)

Photo credit: Greg Hamra