With Hurricane Harvey almost two years in the rearview mirror, Houstonians have started to imagine a future city that is resilient to storms and stressors that can be a model for the nation.
正在进行两项努力，以确定该城市的外观细节。第一个将通过休斯敦市长办公室。2月，这座城市任命玛丽莎·阿奥（Marissa Aho）为首席弹性官。通过Shell的180万美元赠款和非营利组织的援助，AHO正在制定弹性计划，将于今年秋天发布弹性计划。预计该计划将包括可以立即进行改进，以提高一些休斯顿社区的韧性。
第二个称为休斯顿2020 Visions，是艾亚·休斯顿和休斯顿市之间更广泛，更广泛的合作。这个概念是建筑师和休斯顿市议会议员戴维·W·罗宾逊的想法。休斯顿2020 Visions是一项类似的纽约重建竞赛，该竞赛通过设计寻求有关如何使城市更具弹性的广泛建议。该竞赛的提交将于8月25日飓风哈维飓风第二周年。
罗宾逊副参谋长朱莉娅·雷塔（Julia Retta）说：“我们认为这两个计划之间将会有一些协同作用。”她说，虽然目前还没有关于2020 Vision Vision的建议，但可能会在将来实施一些想法。
To help everyone get on the same page, Stantec held a two-day Houston Resiliency Innovation Workshop that brought together 50 people in Houston from education, government, business and non-profit sectors to start to develop a cohesive vision for the city.
休斯顿斯坦特克（Stantec）的高级首席建筑师劳拉·萨克特本（Laura Sachtleben）说：“车间是出于知道仅斯坦特克就无法解决这些问题的知识。”纽约 +实验室建筑师的创始人Illya Azaraoff和AIA成员Illya Azaraoff的同胞促进了研讨会。
“If we are going to get all of these resilience challenges right, it’s going have to be public-private partnerships” Jaime Gonzalez, Houston Urban Conservation Programs Manager for the Nature Conservancy said in a video about the Stantec workshop. “This is a problem that is so large that it needs a multi-sector approach.”
Among other things, the workshop attendees discussed resilient architecture, engineering and financing.
“If all we are talking about is how to be prepared for the next Hurricane Harvey, then we are not going to be prepared for what’s going to happen next,” Sachtleben says. “Today, we’re worried about flooding, but in the future, we are going to have to worry about a lack of water.”
One of the ideas that came out of the workshop was infrastructure that can fill multiple needs – such as a tunneling system not only for water conveyance but also for traffic. The group also seriously discussed ideas including linking more communities, mobile schools, a water-ready vehicle fleet, and a virtual digital twin city.
尽管Stantec计划将建议提交2020 Vision竞赛，但该公司公开了所有信息和发现，并敦促研讨会中的每个人使用研讨会中的想法来推动自己的想法和提交。
The winning submissions of the Vision 2020 exercise will be displayed around the city and, through a grant from the national AIA, around the United States to help inspire others to think and plan for resilience.
