![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…
![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…
![How to bridge theory, policy and practice in post-disaster shelter?](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Shelter-PechaKucha-Posters-470x140.jpg)
Earlier this year Laura Heykoop, Bernadette Devilat and I ran a Shelter Research PechaKucha to test one way of bridging the theory-policy-practice divide. The aim…
![The dynamics of risk are linked to the dynamics of cities. Understanding this interaction is key to promoting urban resilience.](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PaP-Aerial-470x140.png)
I’m excited to think/write/engage with the idea of “resilient urbanism.” Here are some of the reasons: First, I think that “resilience” is an extremely empowering…