Expansion of NYC: Putting More Communities at Risk?

Expansion of NYC: Putting More Communities at Risk?

climate resilience

Along with the ever growing presence of global warming, many coastal areas are at high risk of flooding. This is due to increased inclement weather, both in intensity and frequency, as well as sea level rise. The digitized polygons from the historical map were also included here to show the areas most at risk for flood as it correlates to the land that has been built over landfill. The levels of risk for flood are categorized in the legend; V zones being the most at risk followed by AE, A and X zones. These zoning labels have been developed by FEMA and to understand how exactly they are defined please see the table above (derived from FEMA website).

Munnelly, Violet

Fall 2021

poster

en

GEOG220

Cartography: Spatial Data Visualization with GIS

completed

6/20/25