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How To Build More Resilient Countries After The COVID-19 Pandemic
In 2020, the world witnessed what happens when a global risk becomes reality. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have…
Beyond The Curve: A Visual Journey Into Our Post-Pandemic Future
What changes in the built environment can we make to shape a sustainable post-pandemic future? COVID-19 is reshaping…
How Cities Can Reopen After The Pandemic
Once the lockdowns are lifted, how will things return to how they used to be? Once the COVID-19…
Energy Resilience In A Connected World
In a rapidly developing, technology-driven world that we live in, every system in our society relies on energy…
The Top 10 Most Resilient Countries In The World 2019
We are living in a world which compels us to constantly take risks. There are times where these…
Top 7 Qualities Of Resilient Citizens
Resilience is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources…
What Would An Earthquake-Proof City Look Like?
Earthquakes don’t kill people (generally), collapsing buildings do – meaning it is cities where the most lives can…
How To Find Your Real Sister City
People often link Austin, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as sister cities. Both are home to anchor universities…
How Resilience Grows From The Roots Of Urban Design
In this article, inspired by the movement of open spaces in cities across the world and resilience theory,…
An Ethical City : An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Or Has Long Been Delayed)
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central…
Why Small And Simple Is Key To Flood Resilience
How should cities respond to the threat of flooding? I think sometimes small, simple interventions can be the…
Resilience For Free : Protecting Vulnerable Communities
Clean Energy Group, through its Resilient Power Project, has released a new report analysing the economics of resilient…
How The World Would Be Without Ice
Portland, Oregon, may not be a coastal city, but if all of the world’s ice sheets melted, it…
How Spaces Of Resilience Begins With Spaces For People
People need public spaces in bad times as well as good. Public spaces are very important when we…
More Trees Means Better Streets Means Amazing Cities
CITIES CAN IMPACT GLOBAL WARMING BY COOLING THEMSELVES WITH TREES Cities get hotter than surrounding areas due to…
The 9 Limits Of Our Planet & How We’ve Raced Past 4 Of Them
Johan Rockström says humanity has already raced past four of the nine boundaries keeping our planet hospitable to…
Blue, The New Black: What Is Driving Water Risk
The 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos identified water crises – flood, drought, and pollution – as the…
How Can We Prepare For Multi-Hazards?
Natural and man-made disasters can strike simultaneously. So is it possible to be totally prepared for any multi-hazard,…
Christchurch As A Modern 21st Century Lab
Following the disastrous earthquakes that have rendered the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand uninhabitable, the city…
Building For Earthquake Resilience
Base isolation is seismic engineering’s equivalent of seatbelts in cars – and maybe more: it’s a lifesaver and…
The 10 Most Sustainable Cities That Will Thrive As The World Crumbles
A new ranking looks at three factors that go into making a city successful: people, planet, and profit.…
Christchurch: After The Earthquake, A City Rebuilt In Whose Image?
A recent international visitor to New Zealand‘s second largest city asked Coralie Winn why there were so many…
How Prepared Are We For Climate Change?
Whether you live in San Francisco or Mongolia, climate change is going to impact your life. But even…
How Cities Can Learn From The Human Body’s Systems
Much like the human body with its skeletal, cardiovascular and nervous systems, cities have infrastructure systems, such as…
What Does it Mean to Rebuild a City?
108 years ago, San Francisco was hit by a major earthquake, sparking fires that decimated the city. In…
Disaster Aids Reinvented For Cities
Past response strategies have focused on helping those in remote, rural areas. But when an earthquake, flood or…