The As We Rise Podcast explores what it might look like to pair a citizen assembly with a public-private fund to address flood resilience in New York City, block by block. In this second episode, host Cassondra Warney asks what it will take to get nimble in the face of a city that is only getting wetter. Turns out, NYC is now subtropical. Just as Otto Frello's painting The Rain captures the weight of something that cannot be stopped, this conversation explores how some of that water can be redirected. Guests Tyler Taba of Waterfront Alliance and Sam Robinson of Field Form make the case that block-scale, neighborhood solutions are essential to how the city responds to flooding.

Resources and Links

Otto Frello, The Rain. Courtesy of Varde Museums, Denmark: vardemuseerne.dk/produkt/regnvejret

Waterfront Alliance: waterfrontalliance.org

Field Form: fieldform.nyc

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The As We Rise Podcast explores what it might look like to pair a citizen assembly with a public-private fund to address flood resilience in New York City, block by block. In this first episode, host Cassondra Warney traces her path from an Arizona state legislature internship to the streets of Brooklyn, and asks a question that has followed her entire career: what does good government actually look like? Using medieval art that captured the Allegory of Good and Bad Government, she makes the case that the best ideas about civic life, resilience, and how communities organize themselves have never belonged to any one country or era. The solutions to NYC's flooding crisis may be older, and stranger, than we expect.