The project is a result of a national design competition in 2017,through which a team led by Susannah Drake and Rafi Segal was selected to contribute to the 4th Regional Plan for the New York Metropolitan area.Their proposed Bight:Coastal Urbanism project builds upon a systems-based landscape and urban design strategy to guide the transformation of the regional waterfront.Working in collaboration with colleagues in their offices and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),their project directly and proactively responds to the immense challenges of climate change,extreme storm events,and rising sea levels.