Climate Change

The Road Ahead

Cities are embracing a central role in addressing the challenges of the 21st century. With mass migration, extreme weather, social and economic inequity, and aging and inadequate infrastructure disproportionately affecting urban centers, cities are developing new strategies that tackle these…

Rethinking Disaster Recovery

New York is tackling social and economic vulnerability as it recovers from Superstorm Sandy

Rather than restoring the hurricane-battered neighborhood of Edgemere to its pre-storm conditions…

Building Resilient Districts

New Orleans’ place-based approach is tackling flood risk and creating jobs

New Orleans is creating a neighborhood model in its Gentilly District that addresses the interrelated risks of flooding and soil…

Valuing Natural Assets

Melbourne’s urban forests will improve health and wellbeing

Melbourne is leveraging the value of natural assets through a cohesive, metrowide urban forestry and biodiversity strategy, that will reduce the city’s heat island…

Taking Action: Urban Resilience Initiatives

The more than 30 Resilience Strategies published by 100RC member cities so far…

The Resilience Strategy Development Process

The development of a Resilience Strategy is a hallmark of 100RC’s partnership with cities. The Strategies articulate a city’s long-term challenges, vision, and priorities, as well as specific initiatives for implementation that will have a positive…

Why Cities?

We are living in the century of cities. By 2016, more than 55% of the world’s population was living in urban areas, a proportion due to reach 70% by 2050. Cities are not only the environments in which a majority of us live, they are also the foci of the world’s economy, generating a full 80% of global GDP…

Why Urban Resilience?

Three converging trends have come to characterize the 21st century: urbanization, globalization, and climate change. The world has grown more urban, more integrated, and with a greater number of people at risk than ever before. These conditions require new models of governance. From…