Protection of New York City Urban Fabric With Low-Cost Textile Storm Surge Barriers

@misc{citeulike:1874296, abstract = {Textile storm surge barriers, sited at multiple locations, are literally extensions of the city world famous urban fabric - another manifestation of the dominance of the City over local Nature. Textile Storm Surge Barriers (TSSB) are intended to preserve the City from North Atlantic Ocean hurricanes that cause sea waves impacting the densely populated and high-value real estate, instigating catastrophic, and possibly long-term, infrastructure and monetary losses. Complicating TSSB installation macroproject planning is the presence of the Hudson and other rivers, several small tidal straits, future climate change and other factors. We conclude that TSSB installations made of homogeneous construction materials are worthwhile investigating because they may be less expensive to build, and more easily replaced following any failure, than concrete and steel storm surge barriers, which are also made of homogeneous materials. We suppose the best macroproject outcome will develop in the perfect Macro-engineering planning way and at the optimum time-of-need during the very early 21st Century by, among other groups, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. TSSB technology is a practical advance over wartime harbor anti-submarine/anti-torpedo steel nets and rocky Churchill Barriers.}, author = {Bolonkin, Alexander and Cathcart, Richard }, citeulike-article-id = {1874296}, eprint = {0710.0195}, keywords = {disaster, ny, nyc, storm, surge, urban, weather}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2007-11-06 15:18:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Protection of New York City Urban Fabric With Low-Cost Textile Storm Surge Barriers}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0195}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1874296 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1874296 TI - Protection of New York City Urban Fabric With Low-Cost Textile Storm Surge Barriers N2 - Textile storm surge barriers, sited at multiple locations, are literally extensions of the city world famous urban fabric - another manifestation of the dominance of the City over local Nature. Textile Storm Surge Barriers (TSSB) are intended to preserve the City from North Atlantic Ocean hurricanes that cause sea waves impacting the densely populated and high-value real estate, instigating catastrophic, and possibly long-term, infrastructure and monetary losses. Complicating TSSB installation macroproject planning is the presence of the Hudson and other rivers, several small tidal straits, future climate change and other factors. We conclude that TSSB installations made of homogeneous construction materials are worthwhile investigating because they may be less expensive to build, and more easily replaced following any failure, than concrete and steel storm surge barriers, which are also made of homogeneous materials. We suppose the best macroproject outcome will develop in the perfect Macro-engineering planning way and at the optimum time-of-need during the very early 21st Century by, among other groups, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. TSSB technology is a practical advance over wartime harbor anti-submarine/anti-torpedo steel nets and rocky Churchill Barriers. KW - disaster KW - ny KW - nyc KW - storm KW - surge KW - urban KW - weather AU - Bolonkin, Alexander AU - Cathcart, Richard PY - 2007/Oct/01/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0195 ER -