3Qs: How cities prepare for the next Sandy

Sev­eral weeks after Hur­ri­cane Sandy made land­fall on the East Coast, the dev­as­ta­tion is still being felt—par­tic­u­larly in hard-​​hit sec­tions of New York and New Jersey. The storm has also raised ques­tions about how major cities can pre­pare for the next major weather event of its kind. Jane Amidon, pro­fessor of archi­tec­ture and director of the urban land­scape pro­gram in the Col­lege of Arts, Media and Design, looks at what urban design lessons can be learned from Hur­ri­cane Sandy, and why researchers must take an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach to preparing for another nat­ural disaster.

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