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As a follow up to the last blog (of Feb 14, 2012 ) where I set out six key approaches resilience capacity building that I would be talking about at my Ryerson University Lecture (March 1st 2012), instead of reprising my lecture in this blog, I have uploaded the Future Proofing Cities Toolkit that I distributed at the end of my presentation. This toolkit explores six approaches to building resilience capacity in cities, as well as provides some background resources. You can find the FPC Toolkit on the ResilientCity.org website in the Resilience section or by clicking FPC Toolkit.
Please let me know what you think of the toolkit. When we created it we saw it as a great resource for facilitating resilience workshops and discussions.
The Water Paradox: Where you live with what you have - the climate change induced water issues. This study explores the most ubiqutous climate change paradox present in many of coastal cities around the world - the abundance and the lack of water in addition to, risk + opportunities of the climate change induced water issues. The proposal demonstrates the risks and potentials of the coastal/bay area developments and communities such as Fish Market area in Sydney, Australia.
Manifestations for a City: The proposal builds resilience by re-establishing the relationship between people, natural system and the urban water ecosystem of Nagpur city.“Manifestations for a city” introduces new water ecosystem proposed as per the existing water system of the city and zone level urban design interventions. In natural world, opportunities for novelty are most abundant when systems re-organize. With some resilience thinking, one can see water abundant lakes and networks coming up in vacant plots, along side roads controlling the overall fabric of the city.
