Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor at Princeton University. He also runs his own practice. He currently serves as Commissioner of the NYC Public Design Commission and member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change and the board of the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy.
Structures of Coastal Resilience presents new strategies for creative and collaborative approaches to coastal planning for climate change. In the face of sea level rise and an increased risk of flooding from storm surge, we must become less dependent on traditional approaches to flood control that have relied on levees, sea walls, and other forms of hard infrastructure.