Planning and design scenarios for equitable outcomes in managed retreat

Superstorm Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012, killing 24 victims on Staten Island. In response, the state of New York founded the NY Rising Buyout Program in order to purchase the homes of residents desiring to relocate after the disaster. The program offered residents the pre-storm value of their home to facilitate 'managed retreat' with the goal of transitioning the purchased lots into ecologically resilient open space. However, due to program delays, the amount of incentive offered, as well as the desire for some residents to remain in their neighborhood, not all residents in the buyout area relocated. Today, remaining residents live in neighborhoods with complicated planning challenges, maintenance needs, and climate risks. This thesis analyzes the outcomes of the NY Rising program by evaluating three buyout areas in the East Shore Staten Island based on the criteria of procedural and distributive justice.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Purdy, Bella(Bella P.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Marie Law Adams.

• Urban Studies and Planning.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123932

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123932