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3100 RESILIENT CITIES2 THE URBAN RESILIENCE SUMMIT 2017 | NEW YORK CITY
The 2017 Urban Resilience
Summit we held on July 24-27
in New York City was our larg-
est and most ambitious con-
vening to date, bringing to-
gether over 500 resilience
leaders and practitioners from
all over the world.
In the past four years, we’ve built a movement
that has grown to inspire me beyond what I could
have imagined.
One of the many extraordinary ways in which
we’ve grown and are making an impact is
through our Chief Resilience Officers (CROs) –
those senior points of contact that drive the re-
silience agenda in cities. When we started, the
position of Chief Resilience Officer didn’t exist.
Now there are over 80 in our network alone,
spanning 47 countries, 6 continents, and 21 dif-
ferent languages.
Along with our CROs, our partners are
fundamental to catalyzing the change we want
to see. Today, our platform of city solutions
includes more than 100 partners, offering
services that represent over $230 million in value
for our member cities to access.
But resilience is not just about partners and CROs
– it’s about how cities approach their problems.
Together we have used the Strategy
development process to change the way cities
view their risk, opportunity, and resilience-
building priorities. Today, 32 cities have published
Resilience Strategies, with an additional 9
projected by year’s end, and we’ve helped them
raise over $500 million to implement their
resilience projects.
While we should be immensely proud of what
we have accomplished, this is just the beginning.
Working collectively, we have a historic opportu-
nity. Just through the first 32 Strategies we have
produced more than 1,600 initiatives. By the end
of 2019, when have 100 Strategies completed,
we will have no less than 5,000 initiatives – each
of which will have been designed in inclusive and
integrated ways with the intent of creating a re-
silient city. That is the opportunity.
If we commit to implementing these initiatives,
we can change our cities and change the world.
We have the chance to reduce the vulnerability
and improve the well-being of 500 million peo-
ple living in our cities.
At this year’s Summit, our network gathered to
celebrate our amazing accomplishments and
understand why this work continues to resonate
so strongly in cities throughout the world. Even
more importantly, we joined to think about the
work we have to do going forward, and why it is
even more important than ever.
This report provides insight into the robust
discussions we had at the 2017 Summit and how
we will channel these conversations into
concrete action through our collective work.
Because together we can build a movement that
will change the world.
Michael BerkowitzPresident, 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
Urban Resilience is the capacity of
individuals, communities, institutions,
businesses, and systems within a city to
survive, adapt, and grow no matter what
kinds of chronic stresses and acute
shocks they experience.
Letter from the President
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7100 RESILIENT CITIES6 THE URBAN RESILIENCE SUMMIT 2017 | NEW YORK CITY 100 RESILIENT CITIES
BY THE NUMBERS
12City Managers
150CROs & Resilience Team Members
90New York City Officials
130+ 100RC Partners
500+Summit Attendees
60Summit Sessions
7M+Social Media Impressions
70+ News Stories
Introduction
100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by
the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC)
is dedicated to helping cities around
the world become more resilient to
the physical, social and economic
challenges that are a growing part of
the 21st century.
From July 24-27, 2017, over 500
urban resilience leaders from cities
around the world, including 80
Chief Resilience Officers, gathered
in New York City to share ideas
and innovations from their cities,
collaborated on new solutions,
explored New York as a living
laboratory for urban resilience, and
charted the course of the movement
we are building together.
This report highlights key insights
and takeaways for action from the
robust discussions that took place
over the Summit’s four days of
programming.
THE URBAN RESILIENCE SUMMIT 2017 | NEW YORK CITY
HONOLULU
VANCOUVER
SEATTLE
BERKELEY
GUADALAJARA
COLIMA
PANAMA CITY
CALI
QUITO
SANTA FE
BUENOS AIRESMONTEVIDEO
SANTIAGO DE CHILE
OAKLAND
SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
CALGARY
MINNEAPOLIS
ST. LOUIS
TULSA
EL PASOJUAREZ
MEXICO CITY
MEDELLIN
SALVADOR
RIO DE JANEIRO
PORTO ALEGRE
DALLAS
NEW ORLEANS
BOULDER
CHICAGO
TORONTO
GLASGOW
BELFAST
BRISTOL
LONDON
PARIS
LISBON
BARCELONA
GREATER MANCHESTER
VEJLE
THE HAGUE
ROTTERDAM
MILAN
BELGRADE
DAKAR
ACCRA
KIGALI
CAPE TOWN
LAGOSPAYNESVILLE
NAIROBI
ADDIS ABABA
CHENNAI
DURBAN
THESSALONIKI
TBILISI
ATHENS
LUXOR
PUNE
CAN THO
MELAKA
SINGAPORE
SEMARANG
SYDNEY
MELBOURNE
CHRISTCHURCH
WELLINGTON
JAKARTA
DA NANG
YIWU
HAIYAN
TOYAMA
KYOTO
SURAT
JAIPUR
MANDALAY
DEYANG
HUANGSHI
SEOUL
BANGKOK
BYBLOS
TEL AVIVRAMALLAH
AMMAN
ROME
MONTREAL
BOSTON
NEW YORK CITY
PITTSBURGH
WASHINGTON DC
NORFOLK
LOUISVILLENASHVILLE
ATLANTA
GREATER MIAMI & THE BEACHES
SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS
SAN JUAN
6 7
STRATEGY PARTNERS
2017 PartnersPLATFORM PARTNERS
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Communications HighlightsThe 2017 Urban Resilience Summit garnered significant attention from
print and digital press. Combined with blog posts, videos, live stream
conversations, and social media, Summit coverage reached a broad
international audience and elevated participants as global resilience
ambassadors.
MEDIA CLIPS SELECTION • WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show: Making the 21st
Century Metropolis Resilient
• Reuters: As Threats Grow, Expanding Cities Push for Stronger, Safer Societies
• Devex: 100 Resilient Cities’ Chief on How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change
• Xinhua News: NYC Mayor Objects Trump’s Decision of Withdrawing U.S. From Paris Agreement
• Citiscope: Transition Time for Chief Resilience Officers
• International Business Times: How Infrastructure in The U.S. Got to Be So Bad
• All Africa/TR Foundation: Africa: Cities Set the Pace on Fighting Poverty, Climate Change but Who Will Pay?
• Next City: Chief Resilience Officers Tie Economic Stability for All to Disaster Recovery in Cities
• GreenBiz: More Mayors Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers
• Los Angeles Times: Measuring up U.S. Infrastructure Against Other Countries
• VICE Impact: International City Officials Met to Preempt Climate Change Destruction
• Observer: De Blasio Calls on Mayors to ‘Push a Little Harder’ on Climate Change
• Voice of America: New York Startups Shine Light on New Paths for World Cities
• Univision: Mobility and Migration, Challenges of The Big Cities to Be Discussed in New York
LIVESTREAM AND VIDEO SELECTION
Raj Shah and Michael Berkowitz conversation
Mayor de Blasio keynote Mayors discussing 100RC
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BY THE NUMBERS
70+News stories
56MPotential reach
2,800+Social media posts
7M+Social media impressions
650,000+Video views
250,000+Livestream views
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MONDAY, JULY 24
Galvanize the Movement
What started as a bold, but untested, idea on how to best help cities prepare for the challenges of the 21st century has transformed into a global movement driven by
city leadership, urban stakeholders, and corporate and nonprofit
partners. We asked our founders, city leaders, and partners to reflect on the past 4 years and share their
hopes for the future.
“ My ask of each of you is for this 100 Resilient Cities movement to go forward boldly with an absolute focus on delivering real, large-scale results for the more than 500 million men, women, and children who live in the cities you represent today.”
—DR. RAJIV J. SHAHPRESIDENT, THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
“ If you join it means your consciousness is already set to bold, aggressive action. Let’s push each other. Let’s inspire each other. Let’s go someplace that no one could’ve imagined in the service of saving this planet.”
—BILL DE BLASIOMAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY
“ For all our urban challenges, there will be massive opportunities, and there is no substitute for minds that think mile-high.”
—DR. JUDITH RODINFORMER PRESIDENT, THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
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Collective Network StoriesFour years into this movement, we have seen the power of the Network in action. To kick off our time together, we invited cities and partners to share stories of collaborations and collective accomplishments.
NATURAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
MELBOURNE, DURBAN,
EARTH ECONOMICS
The Resilience Teams of
Melbourne and Durban
shared how a network
convening with 4 additional member cities as
well as partners from Earth Economics (EE) and
the Nature Conservancy helped them move
urban biodiversity at the center of the resilience
agenda. 100RC partner EE added that this and
other interactions with the 100RC network
helped access key information on aggregate
demand for new solutions. For example, to
address the lack of cost-benefit analysis tools
that incorporate ecosystem services, EE collabo-
rated with 100RC partner Impact Infrastructure
to develop AUTOCASE+, a cost-benefit analysis
tool now able to evaluate a wide range of green
infrastructure costs and benefits, including
ecosystem services.
URBAN REFUGEES
AMMAN, ATHENS,
INTERNATIONAL
RESCUE COMMITTEE
The CROs of Athens and
Amman shared how their
collaboration with eight
fellow cities to address
common challenges of refugee integration in
urban settings not only helped create
momentum by shifting the narrative from
humanitarian crisis to resilience opportunity, but
also catalyzed impactful practice transfers and
partnerships. For example, Athens is developing
a municipal identification program modeled after
the IDNYC program and Amman is partnering
with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)
to implement the resilience strategy. 100RC
partner IRC added that the unique nature of the
partnership already helped secure external
funding for implementation. Mayors from Athens,
New York, Amman, and other participating cities
are now advocating for better inclusion of city
leaders in national and international negotiations.
INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION
SANTIAGO DE CHILE,
ERNST & YOUNG
The CRO of Santiago de
Chile called out the
collaboration with 100RC
partner Ernst & Young
(EY). EY was instrumental
in helping the city understand its mobility
challenges and design innovative solutions to
address the rural-urban divide in the metropoli-
tan region. The CRO explained how EY’s recom-
mendations were incorporated into the city’s
Resilience Strategy, and EY intervened to stress
how the team’s deep exposure and involvement
in the resilience strategy building process helped
prioritize solutions that go beyond improved
mobility outcomes and look at interdependen-
cies between transportation access and socio-
economic equity.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
• Half of the infrastructure needed in cities by
2050 has yet to be built; this is a great
opportunity to build resilience;
• It will be key for the cities of the future to
implement technological innovation in an
inclusive, resilient way;
• Building long-term resilience is challenging
because political leaders are rewarded for
short-term, visible gains rather than for the
prevention of future risks;
• There is a wide gap between city and national
interests and priorities, it’s important to
acknowledge this and work to address it.
SPEAKERS:
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,
Senior Director, The World Bank
Zahira Asmal,
Founder and Managing Director, The City
Michael Kimmelman,
Architecture Critic, The New York Times
Chris Michael,
Editor, Guardian Cities
Future of Cities PanelWe spent the rest of our afternoon reflecting on the future – the future of our cities and of our role as leaders in the urban resilience movement.
I was able to leverage the 100RC Network and my role as CRO to lead the resilience agenda under two different mayors.
— PATRICK BROWN, CRO,
CITY OF ST. LOUIS
ON BEING A CRO NAVIGATING
POLITICAL CHANGE
Set your goals high, take baby steps, and just keep on beating, and do it joyfully.
— KRISHNA MOHAN RAMACHANDRAN,
CRO, CITY OF CHENNAI
ON HIS NEWLY APPOINTED ROLE
Our work supporting cities around the world as a 100RC Strategy Partner has exposed us to new approaches and innovations that we have adapted to our own practice.
— CLAIRE BONHAM-CARTER,
PRINCIPAL, AECOM
ON BEING A 100RC STRATEGY PARTNER
The partnership with 100 Resilient Cities has enabled Amec Foster Wheeler to connect with new companies and develop new urban resilience solutions.
— PETER HALL, GLOBAL PROGRAM
MANAGER, AMEC FOSTER WHEELER
ON BEING A 100RC PLATFORM
PARTNER
It’s one thing to talk about transformation, it’s another to design and implement actions and initiatives that deliver systemic change. That’s the work we have begun, and that’s the work we are committed to continuing.
— LINA LIAKOU, CRO, THESSALONIKI
ON BEING A CRO TRANSITIONING
FROM STRATEGY PLANNING TO
IMPLEMENTATION
My past as a 100RC Strategy Partner will inform my future as CRO. The evolution of my role is a testament to the uniqueness of this network.
— AIJUN QIU, CRO, DEYANG
ON TRANSITIONING ROLE FROM 100RC
STRATEGY PARTNER TO CRO
Individual Network StoriesJust as cities are made up of individuals and communities, the resilience movement is also made up of incredible individuals and leaders. We took a moment to highlight some of the individual accomplishments and impacts from the Network.
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TUESDAY, JULY 25
Build Relationships
In a field as new as urban resilience, it is essential to build on a foundation of personal and professional relationships and by
gathering the resilience community together we can accelerate
the pace of change and rate of response we are hoping to see in
our cities.
Participants spent Tuesday morning in individual Network
tracks – with Chief Resilience Officers, resilience team mem-
bers, and partners sharing their experience and perspective
with each other – before bringing the entire community to-
gether to dive into collaborative working sessions in the
afternoon. These 14 Peer & Partner sessions were designed to
respond to aggregated demand from cities and focused on
topics ranging from social inclusion to leveraging resilience
value from infrastructure investment, to building economic
resilience in low income communities, to data analytics for
cities. Concurrently on Tuesday, we engaged in working
sessions with leading City Managers from 12 Member Cities
across the globe on the issues facing their cities. This was a
unique moment to demonstrate the power of the urban resil-
ience community at work.
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Economic Resilience
Data Analytics
Infrastructure
Disaster Risk Financing
Equity
Youth
Resilient Project Design
Water
Transforming Cities
Community Engagement
Waste
Health
Resilience Garage
Tactical Urbanism
Online Collaboration Opportunities
Identified
Knowledge Products To Be Captured
Potential Funding Opportunities
Identified
Potential New Platform Partner
Solutions Identified
Opportunity To Add Additional Network
Partners/SMAs
Colab Candidates New City-Partner Engagement
Identified
Network at WorkA number of promising opportunities for collaboration, funding, new Network engagement and learning have emerged through these sessions. 100RC is working to advance these opportunities in the coming months.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26
Share Practical KnowledgeFrom exploring resilient food
systems in the Bronx, to advancing our transportation system with the NYC Ferry in Manhattan, to seeing how we partner with the leaders in
Brooklyn on building healthy and safe neighborhoods, to learning about
Resilient Green Infrastructure Projects in Staten Island, to visiting an IDNYC Enrollment Center in Queens, New York City is truly a living laboratory
for urban resilience.
On Wednesday, Summit participants immersed themselves in the
rich diversity of the New York City region’s resilience opportunities
and challenges. The day commenced with a panel discussion led by
New York City CRO Dan Zarrilli on New York City’s resilience
journey, after which 374 Summit attendees embarked on 14 concur-
rent living labs across the five boroughs and New Jersey. More than
90 people from the New York City Mayor’s Office and leaders from
two dozen community organizations shared their expertise tackling
a range of resilience challenges with the Network. Participants used
subways, public buses, public ferries, bicycles and their own two
feet on their journeys, logging more than 50 miles between the 14
groups. The day concluded with small group dinners in the commu-
nities who shared their stories with our community of practitioners.
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Living Laboratories
374 Participants90 NYC City Officials14 Living Labs5 Boroughs + New Jersey
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Sites: Brooklyn Navy Yard, New Lab, Steiner Studios. Leads: Cities of New Orleans, Pitts- burgh and Glasgow. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, NYC Eco- nomic Development Corporation, and Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation.
Diversifying economies in post-industrial cities
1. Connect workforce and economic develop-ment: Education and training is critical to foster-ing a diversified economy. This means supporting local skilled workers but also building skills and experience if they don’t have them— “creating a pathway to the Yard.”
2. Build resilience into the equation: Incubators and accelerators can have a secondary goal of supporting businesses that contribute to the city’s resilience goals, e.g. incubators could accommo-date businesses working on climate change.
3. Be conscious that innovation is a force for good but can also cause inequality: Inclusiveness should be a priority from the early stages.
Sites: Brooklyn-Howard Houses Farm, Brownsville Public Library, Belmont Ave Corridor, Made in Brownsville Store, Osborne Plaza, 3 Black Cats Café, Brownsville Teen Lounge, Van Dyke Houses and Jobs Plus, Livonia Avenue Corridor and Betsy Head Park Lead: 100 RC Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency
Advancing equity and economic opportunities
1. An integrated plan for poverty reduction: Fighting poverty requires a systems approach and intentional cross-departmental efforts, ranging from early childhood education to mental health programming and workforce development.
2. Share data tracking and build partnerships: Public agencies, community organizations and residents must work together to identify issues, develop shared solutions, and monitor progress.
3. Leverage community assets: Third spaces like community centers, and programs such as performance-based social services contracting, can create social cohesion.
Addressing climate resilience from flooding to financing
1. Make the investment case: Support cities (through the Platform Partner Network, 100RC SDI Leads, or 100RC Subject Matter Advisors) to put a price tag on the full cost of inaction. This can help CROs and their teams gather political support for solutions.
2. Focus on financing implementation to best leverage Platform Partner support: Support from Platform Partners to conduct vulnerability assessments on climate change impacts is helpful to many cities—but it must include post-study financing to ensure that the studies will lead to action.
Sites: The Big U Project, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Two Bridges, Red Hook, Louis Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier, Beard Street, and Coffey Park. Leads: City of Rotterdam and Mexico City. Co-Leads: Arcadis, Deltares, and NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
Starting the Resilience Conversation from the Community Perspective
1. Invest in community engagement: Intention-ality and care in designing an authentic engage-ment process strengthens a community’s resilience and capacity to respond to change.
2. Share projections and data in a comprehensible format: Create space for community representatives to understand and engage with data on resilience challenges in a creative, accessible way.
3. Connect with people: Proactively infuse moments of fun and levity into an engagement process. The typical “town hall” style of engage-ment can be confrontational and accomplish little meaningful dialogue.
Sites: Eastern Rockaways, Rockaway Institute for Sustainable Environment, Arverne View, Edgemere. Leads: City of Sydney, AECOM. Co-Lead: NYC Housing and Preservation Development.
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Transforming the public realm with civic leadership
1. Leverage private capital for public spaces: This shouldn’t be done at expense of public access. Cities that do not have a strong culture of philanthropy experience an aversion to private money in public spaces.
2. There is value in incremental change: Demonstrating small pilots can build momentum towards a bigger goal.
3. Developing peer-to-peer networks: It is helpful to share the message whenever possible and through the right messenger. It is also useful to re-frame the narrative to attract an audience that may be more sympathetic.
Sites: Times Square, The High Line and Rebuild by Design Lead: HR&A Advisors. Co-Leads: Times Square Alliance, Friends of the High Line, NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation, and NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
City and the water’s edge
1. Showcase opportunities: Highlight economic growth and active/passive open recreation spaces to drive improvements to river pollution, treatment, and management: This can bring various stakeholders to the table, gain momentum, and open up financing sources.
2. Mobilize both private and social capital for regional water management: Do not only depend on the city government’s capacity and resources.
3. Design to bring people not just to the edge but into the water: This end goal sets the bar much higher for integrated infrastructure design, maintenance, and monitoring.
Sites: Greenpoint, Newtown Creek, Dumbo and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Leads: HR&A Advisors and the Cities of Deyang and Haiyan. Co-Leads: NYC Dept. of City Planning, NYC Dept. of Environmental Planning, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation.
Sites: Hudson Yards, Port Authority Bus Terminal, East River Ferry Tour, Walking Tour of North Williamsburg and parts of Broadway in Mid-town. Leads: Cities of Quito, Cali and Miami-Dade. Co-Leads: AECOM, Perkins Eastman, NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Economic Develop-ment Corporation
Building resilience through mobility solutions
1. Mature BRT systems (5+ years old or more) are seeing decreased ridership: A number of contributing factors such as reliability, quality of service, and route configuration need to be studied closely along with the user experience.
2. Keep citizens informed: People need clearer, more easily accessible, and up-to-date information on the city’s current and future plans for transport modes and changes to services.
3. Find creative ways to partner and fund public transport: Funding and financing public transport is an extremely complex issue; no one agency is able to bear the costs.
Sites: Hunts Point Produce Market,, Barretto Park, GrowNYC, Union Square Greenmarket, Graffiti Earth Restaurant. Leads: City of Boulder and New York City. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, NYC Economic Development Corporation, and NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
Food system vulnerability and resilience
1. Food safety first: Food safety is most important when thinking about the vulnerability of regional food systems.
2. Food waste is the “Swiss army knife” of the whole system: Changing how we handle food waste is key to thinking about costs, emissions, hunger, etc.
3. Understand food supply chains and infrastructure: Food is often thought about in terms of growing it (soil, water, nutrition, etc.) but for a city, the key risk points in the event of a shock are most likely transportation and refrigeration. Usually, food does not fall under municipal jurisdiction, but cities must start maintaining information on food.
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Affordable housing and resilient communities
1. Use a holistic approach for systemic change: Housing solutions are shaped by and are interdependent with livelihood and economic strategies. A holistic approach is essential to achieve systemic change.
2. Shift perspectives: Shift from real estate to building communities, from housing to habitat, from family needs to community needs.
3. Pool in resources: Blending pockets of money (transit, public health, housing) can create a bigger resource pool to create an integrated community.
Sites: Arverne by the Sea and Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Leads: Perkins Eastman and FMSD. Co-Leads: NYC Housing and Preservation Development, NYC Housing Authority.
Resilient energy systems in the urban context
1. Focus on reducing soft costs: Soft costs are often what creates barriers to entry for new solutions (e.g., requirements to register as generators to share energy).
2. Build a global data bank of energy solutions and pilots: The Network can take leadership, enable sustained interactions (working groups), and involve other city networks like C40.
3. Energy as an entry point for community-based/-owned projects: Many small-scale interventions are best managed by the communities they serve. Ensuring proper sensitization of the intervention, up- skilling of stakeholders, and an appropriate growth model will enable multi-layered success.
Sites: Five Borough Parks Department’s Admin Building in Randall’s Island, NYU Langone and Rebuild by Design offices. Leads: 100RC Global Delivery. Co-Lead: NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability.
Improving city resilience with urban biodiversity
1. Protecting and enhancing biodiversity can address shocks and stresses: Biodiversity offers water and heat regulating services, erosion preventions, habitat protection, and cultural and recreational services.
2. Biodiversity management, preservation, and investment are critical in good times: Trying to restore or create anew is far more resource intensive and challenging than preserving existing biodiversity assets before they degrade or disappear.
3. Use economics to tell stories: Underlining the relationship between nature and healthy communities can be an effective way to garner support and funding for biodiversity initiatives.
Sites: Bayswater Park, Jamaica Bay Wildlike Refuge, Sunset Cove. Leads: Earth Economics, City of Melbourne, Science + Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay. Co-Leads: Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy, Natural Areas Conservancy, National Parks Service, NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation.
Sites: ioby office, 4th Ave Over- pass, Carroll St Subway station, Southeast corner of Degraw St and Smith St, Brooklyn Greenway and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Leads: Street Plans Collaborative and ioby. Co-Leads: NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
Civic crowdfunding and tactical urbanism in Brooklyn
1. Iterate big ideas on a small scale: Tactical urbanism approaches help voice community needs in a tangible, measurable, quick, and cheap way so that long-term, high budget projects can be delivered for maximum impact.
2. Crowd-funding can help finance community needs: Civic crowd-funding helps bridge gaps in addressing community needs which city governments may not support.
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Sites: Elmhurst Public Library, Flushing Queens Library, Hindu Temple Society and Himalayan Yak Restaurant. Leads: International Rescue Committee and NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
Global migration: resilient cities at the forefront
1. Collaborate with various city agencies and partners across sectors: This is important for a city to successfully implement a program.
2. Take a holistic approach to addressing the needs of refugees and migrants: This will ensure that maximum resources are leveraged.
3. Leverage the current momentum: Now, more than ever, migration issues are prominent in the media. This attention has diversified support for addressing these issues, fostered greater collaboration among community actors, and has sparked cross-sectoral partnerships.
Sites: Hoboken, Staten Island and Lower Manhattan. Leads: Arup and Rebuild by Design. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, City of Hoboken Mayor’s Office.
Rebuilding by bike, bus and boat: exploring resilient communities
1. Use community engagement and multi-benefit infrastructure design processes: Complex challenges range from expansive flood zones to pushback from residents. Early buy-in from critical stakeholders is important for design and implementation.
2. Use data and innovative design solutions for green-blue infrastructure: Understanding not just ecology but also species, their breeding seasons and habitats can provide innovative solutions.
3. Combine funding streams: Taking a fresh look at existing revenue streams, as well as new ones can unlock financing solutions for more impactful projects and resilient communities.
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THURSDAY, JULY 27
Advance the Work in Cities
By the end of 2019, when all 100 cities will have completed their Resilience Strategies, there will be no less than 5,000 initiatives – each of which will have been designed in inclusive and integrated ways with the intent of
creating a resilient city. If we commit to implementing these initiatives, we have the chance to reduce the vulnerability and improve the well-
being of the 500 million people that call our 100 resilient cities their home.
Summit participants spent Thursday accelerating their work through
targeted sessions focused on implementation priorities. This deeper
dive into resilience topics of interest helped Member Cities and
partners move from planning for urban resilience to building it.
Following a morning plenary featuring implementation insights from
across the globe, the Network pivoted to 13 concurrent working
sessions led by CROs, city representatives and partner organiza-
tions on a range of topics from measuring resilience to financing
resilient infrastructure.
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SESSION TOPIC KEY LEARNINGS
Collaborative Informal Settlement Action
1. Relocation of informal settlements in high-risk areas is most successful
when local governments build trust, often through community ambas-
sadors or local NGOs who act as a bridge.
2. There is a logic behind people’s decision to live in informal settlements.
Data and understanding of what drive informal settlements is critical.
3. Cities should find ways to formalize aspects of informality in key policy
areas, such as land ownership and economic opportunity.
4. Cities should address informality holistically, rather than just as a
housing problem, an approach that requires better integration across
departments and sectors.
Communicating Resilience
1. Developing a story around the particular shocks and stresses a city
faces and the impact they have an individual person can help engage
community members in the resilience conversation.
2. Communicating the term ‘resilience’—whether it exists in a local lan-
guage or not—requires practitioners to reflect on their own connection
to the word and what it means for their city.
3. Focusing storytelling efforts on resilience projects is key to galvanizing
financial, political and popular support for implementation and institu-
tionalization.
Disaster Resilience
1. Building relationships with communities, businesses and a cross-sec-
tion of city agencies is critical to disaster resilience.
2. Don’t wait for the crisis to establish productive working relationships.
3. Communication of risk—with a focus on all hazards, not just the most
recent or prominent— requires targeted strategies for different groups.
4. Develop tools and resources for city agencies, communities and others
to create and practice their own plans while using their convening
power to ensure collaboration and information sharing.
SESSION TOPIC KEY LEARNINGS
Community Preparedness
1. Cities struggling with communicating risk to local communities should
consider ‘Citizen Science’ as a powerful tool for risk reduction and stake-
holder engagement.
2. In building early warning systems, cities should experiment with new and
old technologies alike—from sensors to traditional percussion instruments—
and involve citizens in the creation and management of these tools.
3. Cities should explore alternative financing mechanisms for disaster relief,
including the creation of ‘community insurance funds’ or ‘resilience banks’
for residents who contributed pre-disaster.
Energy Transition
1. Local context and local markets are critical; how can cities better under-
stand user demand by tracking use and opening up competition among
various energy providers (eg, through blockchain technology)?
2. Identify opportunities for regulation reform and lowering barriers to entry
to the market through smaller-scale pilots.
3. Sustained collaboration across cities is required to advance this emerging
practice through facilitated connections within the 100RC Network and
with other networks.
Collaborative Design
1. CROs can leverage 100 Resilient Cities, local partners and resources to
create a design-driven, preliminary place-based strategy for communities.
2. Mobilize talent; find partners who will be unique to this effort.
3. Open the process to the community. Give them ownership to spark
conversation and ideas.
4. Create an interdisciplinary task force to work together, hold design
charettes or symposium events with property owners, designers, and
residents.
5. Work with leaders to survey stakeholders; talk directly to landowners.
6. Map the community context. Use GIS data to illustrate overlapping
socioeconomic, infrastructure and climate-related challenges.
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Designing with Water in Cities
1. Many cities continue to feel the impact of water challenges, including
how climate change impacts the water cycle, water stress, water scarcity,
and water infrastructure.
2. Renewing pipe infrastructure may be costly but can be cost-efficient in
the long term.
3. Cities should an integrated approach to address both green and blue
infrastructure.
4. Water harvesting techniques (such as rain barrels/cisterns, rain gardens,
green roofs) can provide valuable water and energy saving benefits to
cities and serve as community amenities.
5. Building public awareness and feelings of ownership/responsibility for
local water issues among residents can drive behavioral change.
The Future of Mobility
Given the rapid technological progress underway, connected and autono-
mous vehicles (CAVs) are becoming a reality. Cities can prepare for the
risks and opportunities this technology poses by:
1. Creating the right types of partnerships so that the city benefits as well
as the private sector partner.
2. Managing responsibility between local, state, and federal government in
making decisions.
3. Enabling access to technical expertise and support to create space for
innovation. More creativity is needed where standard solutions don’t work.
4. Collecting relevant and city-wide transport data, particularly when this
data is owned by non-public actors.
Resilience at theMetropolitan Scale
1. Key resilience challenges, such as water management or transportation,
often transcend administrative boundaries and are best addressed when
neighboring municipalities collaborate with each other, either formally or
informally.
2. Effective governance and leadership is more important than formal
mandates –collaborative cities are better able to leverage resources and
successfully implement.
3. Cities have integrated metropolitan considerations into the 100RC
strategy process, for example by including metropolitan stakeholders in
their City Resilience Committee or by designing strategy initiatives at the
metropolitan scale.
SESSION TOPIC KEY LEARNINGS
Planning and Construction in High-Growth Cities
1. Investments in land-use / building regulatory capacity can yield
many co-benefits, from climate change mitigation and adaptation to
cultural heritage preservation.
2. Flexible building regulations that align with local vernacular while
taking into account strict safety standards and the realities of the
local construction market are key.
3. Investments should be made in participatory approaches that
engage local residents and builders in co-design and education
around regulations.
Business Case for Resilience
1. Measuring resilience is a complex endeavor because there are almost
an infinite number of variables that could be measured at different
scales. A range of concrete indicators (cost) and proxy measures
(trust) need consideration.
2. Focusing on project-scale valuation and measurement with an eye on
scaling these practices up is an important starting point.
3. Building awareness among target audiences (funders, policymakers,
etc.) of measurement challenges and opportunities is critical to
advancing the work.
Financing Infrastructure
1. Building resilience through infrastructure requires different gover-
nance bodies to collaborate in new ways that lead to more robust
project development.
2. Maximizing co-benefits from infrastructure projects can open up
potential new funding and financing streams.
3. Aid agencies, taxes, and public-private partnerships are not the only
sources of revenue; by thinking broad, cities can unlock new,
non-traditional sources of funding (e.g., installation of PV panels on
roads to generate and sell electricity, advertisement space on public
transport infrastructure).
Budget, Assets, Regulation: City Tools for Implementation
1. Cities need to look beyond new funding sources to support the
implementation of their resilience strategies.
2. Taking a closer look at cities’ existing funding sources (expense and
capital budgets), cities’ procurement practices, cities’ franchising
agreements, as well as assets (buildings, people, convening power)
and regulation (zoning, taxation, licensing) is critical to unlocking and
recombining available resources in new ways for resilience.
As we return to our respective cities and
daily routines, we will have a chance to
reflect on the week and gain the kind of
insight that will make it even more
valuable. Already we can already take
away several important observations and
lessons as we go forward: the community
of practice is taking hold; we are
determined to take collective action for
change; we need to invest in
measurement to prove the impact of
resilience interventions; we need to focus
on the challenge of balancing systems
change with project delivery; and more
awareness of common challenges, areas
of expertise, and solutions across the
network will allow us to maximize our
movement’s resources and find new
resources.
This is a new era for our movement. How
we adopt what we learned from this is a
critical part of how we can accomplish
the goals are we setting for it. As we set
forth and continue our work, we must
keep sight of the important questions we
are asking each other and on which we
have already heard valuable insights on:
• What political resources can we
leverage to implement effectively?
• What changes are needed upstream in
the 100RC process to set us up for
success in implementation?
• How can we better leverage the power
of the Network to identify
opportunities for collective action?
• How can we preserve the resilience
value in projects while ensuring they
can also be implemented in a
reasonable time frame?
• How do we more effectively crowd-in
existing resources or find new ones for
implementation?
• How should the CRO role change in
implementation?
• How can partners more generally
collaborate with the movement beyond
their service offering?
• After this week, what commitments will
you make to take this work forward,
either in city or as a Network?
We walk away from the week energized
and inspired and challenged — to keep
thinking about everything we can accom-
plish and ways we should aim to do so to
help the most people we can. We are
mindful of the incredible voices and
leadership that we all contributed, from
our longest-serving CROs to our most
recent additions, to platform partners
and other allies who are eager to help us
all catalyze this movement that can help
shape the lives of billions.
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