Urban Resilience: From Global Vision to Local Practice

Summer hailstorms in Mexico City, weeks-long heat waves in India, hurricane-force winds off the Great Lakesweather events are becoming commonplace, testing the resilience of local and regional governments across the world. But urban resilience extends beyond weathering climate shocks. It also entail...

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Published in:Policy File 2022
Main Authors: McTarnaghan, Sara, Morales-Burnett, Jorge, Marx, Rebecca
Format: Report
Language:Arabic
Subjects:
Globalization
Urban Areas
Urban Institute
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Summary:Summer hailstorms in Mexico City, weeks-long heat waves in India, hurricane-force winds off the Great Lakesweather events are becoming commonplace, testing the resilience of local and regional governments across the world. But urban resilience extends beyond weathering climate shocks. It also entails maintaining and improving infrastructure, ecology, economy, and community at the city level. For six years, from 2013 to 2019, the 100 Resilient Cities program sought to boost the capacity of local governments across all facets of urban resilience. Although the program ended earlier than anticipated, its unprecedented breadth of participating cities and scope of intervention provided potential lessons for cities across the world as they prepare for and face an increasingly uncertain future.