Map of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

A Grassroots Model for Climate Resiliency

A Grassroots Model for Climate Resiliency

Sophie Lasoff (GGFUP, 2014, Location: New York City)

In this project, Sophie Lasoff explores the implementation of a social resiliency strategy by the environmental advocacy organization UPROSE in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  A historically working-class and ethnically diverse community, Sunset Park faces not only the threat of climate change, but of displacement and social diffusion as a result of gentrification.

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