Building Resilient Cities

This paper by urban strategist Jeb Brugmann is one of three documents arising from the " Building Climate Resilience in Cities " workshop series. It explains one of the core concepts developed through our workshop series. This new strategic planning framework, called a " Resilience Zone " is introduced and explored through a four-stage development process. A second, accompanying document, " Building Climate Resilience in Cities: Priorities for Collaborative Action, " distils the key priorities that emerged from the workshop series for collaborative action between key urban stakeholders to build climate resilience in cities. This concise summary is designed to be readily understood so as to catalyze and expand cross-sector collaboration. A third set of documents in this set contains the workshop materials including templates and graphics that were used to facilitate each of the workshops in the series. We are making these available so that city leaders and other urban resiliency stakeholders may consider their use when organizing their own multi-stakeholder workshops.