The subject of this graduation project is Resilient Communities; designing flood-risk protection measures that will increase the social and spatial quality of different communities, increasing the quality of live. The location chosen to develop this project is Coney Island, an urbanized peninsula located on the Atlantic coast of New York City. This area is characterized by a wide variety of communities and water related hazards. Current flood defense measures do not take the occupation, network, or social conditions into account even tough different approaches have a different impact on the spatial and social aspects of a community. This project will deal with these issues.