Rather than restoring the hurricane-battered neighborhood of Edgemere to its pre-storm conditions…
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…
The Rockefeller Foundation has been a leader in urban policy since the late 1950s when it launched an Urban Design Studies program. One of its first grants was to a then-obscure author for the research and writing of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. More than fifty years…
New Orleans is creating a neighborhood model in its Gentilly District that addresses the interrelated risks of flooding and soil…
As I write this letter, in the lead-up to the 2017 Urban Resilience Summit, it is truly extraordinary to consider the incredible group of people who have taken part in our movement over the last four years. When we started this organization in 2013, we had no cities, no staff…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By cleaning its main river and focusing on treating sewage at its source, Surat will ensure the…