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…
By Michelle Annette Meyer, PhD The Philippines faces a long road of recovery decisions that will affect the population’s risk for generations to come. One…
I recently found this 4-minute film by Gideon Mendel on floods in Bangkok. It is a beautiful piece. What makes it so striking is that…
Rekanpe tet’w literally means “re-standing your head,” and refers to the process taken by Haitians to recover after the earthquake. The following quotes are excerpts…
Buildings should not collapse spontaneously! On April 24th 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed within the Greater Dhaka Area in Bangladesh, killing over…
I have been working as part of a team (with Anna among others), on an assessment of Haiti’s housing recovery and reconstruction process. Specifically I…
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…
I feel that we (my fellow authors and I) are currently sitting at an interesting juncture, somewhere between practice and academia, between the urban, the…
This blog will be a place for me to think about resilient urbanism by writing. This is an ongoing experiment because I normally like to…
What is resilient urbanism? What does it mean for our cities to be conceived and designed to be resilient – to natural hazards, to economic…
