Put, Willemijn F. van de (2023) Resilience Planning in New York City. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
In recent years, academic interest in sustainable approaches to urban planning has increased but these approaches have not been used much in practice. Therefore, resilience planning, a sustainable urban planning approach, is used to research sustainability in New York City’s sustainable policy document, OneNYC 2050. Like many cities, NYC deals with the negative effects of climate change, like urban flooding and heat stress. Therefore, this paper asks the question of to what extent resilience planning is used in NYC’s sustainable policy documents. A literature review has been conducted which resulted in a set of indicators that are used to assess the presence of resilience planning in OneNYC 2050. Indicators that were developed during the literature review were ES, SES, biodiversity, coastal flood resilience, and extreme weather events. These indicators were then used in the document analysis to assess the presence of resilience planning. Some interesting findings were that in OneNYC 2050, very few (sustainable) coastal flood resilience measures are taken. Thus, more nature-based solutions were suggested where, for example, the strength of waves is reduced, causing them to be less powerful and protecting the shore from erosion to increase sustainable flood resilience. The City received a perfect score for their measures regarding extreme weather events on the other hand as both technical measures and knowledge systems for pluvial floods and heat stress were included in the policy document. To conclude, a resilience planning approach is present in OneNYC 2050, but improvements like nature-based solutions as mentioned before can be made.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Woltjer, J. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2023 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2023 09:27 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4259 |
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