![Danger! Weird ways engineers think and talk about disasters in cities](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/disastersslide0CROPPED-470x140.jpg)
Illustrations by the brilliant Veronica Wood. Thanks to all the friends and colleagues who gave encouragement and feedback.
![Urban planning after humanitarian crises: Supporting local actors to take the lead](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20141108_Victoria-Maynard_Guian-NDZ-470x140.jpg)
How can humanitarian actors support local government to lead recovery and reconstruction planning after urban crises? My current research project (with Elizabeth Parker, David Garcia…
![Evidence and Innovation: the tried, tested and boring](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ReinventingTheWheel-470x140.png)
Evidence and innovation – these are two words familiar to anyone reading about humanitarian programming. Nowadays everything has to be “evidence-based”, judged against “indicators”, monitored,…
![Promoting Safer Building](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSCF2907-470x140.jpg)
Following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines fewer than 20% of people rebuilding their houses have so far adopted any kind of safer building measures, despite…
![WUF: Self-recovery after urban disaster](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/photo-470x140.jpg)
Who better to tell the story of what the international humanitarian community didn’t do after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti than the Haitian government? The…
![On the “Top 10 Riskiest Cities” and Getting Mauled by Bears](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mauling-in-forest-470x140.png)
In late March the large re-insurer Swiss-Re published a report ranking the world’s 616 largest urban centers according to risk from natural hazards. The report…
![Resilient Urbanism at the World Urban Forum in Medellin](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_2845-Version-2-470x140.jpg)
What are experts around the world saying about equity and resiliency in cities? Two members of the Resilient Urbanism team (Anna Konotchick and Kate Crawford)…
![San Francisco / Port-au-Prince partnership for earthquake resilience?](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/San-Francisco-1906-470x140.png)
I was recently reading through some of the articles in The Guardian’s Resilient Cities series. One of the articles that struck my interest describes a…
![Post-disaster repairs II: the case of repurposing ex-industrial landscapes in the UK](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Washington-State-470x140.jpg)
What is so special about humanitarian bureaucracy anyway? Haven’t plenty of people in all sorts of different organisations come up with a great idea that…
![Freedom to participate: can the capability approach offer insight into participation in disaster recovery processes?](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Homeless-but-not-hopeless-470x140.jpg)
After a disaster, do people always have the capabilities to participate fully in the reconstruction and recovery process? In the development and humanitarian fields, we…