ResilientCity.org is a not-for-profit network of architects, urban planners and designers, engineers, and landscape architects focused on developing creative, practical, and implementable planning and building design strategies that help address one of our century's most important challenges: namely, developing the capacities for resilience in our cities to adapt to the significant future economic and environmental impacts of climate change and energy transition in the context of human settlement.
There is an important discourse emerging among social scientists, environmentalists, architects, and urban planners about how our cities should deal with the looming and linked threats of climate changes and energy transition as a result of peak oil. This website was created to facilitate and further this discourse.
ResilientCity.org has three primary goals:
FIRST: To raise awareness about the combined challenges of climate change and energy transition in the context of human settlement and the radical challenges these will pose for how we plan cities and design buildings. SECOND: To provide a public forum, including idea competitions, blog posts, and twitter conversations about how we can develop more effective and implementable planning and design strategies for increasing the capacity of our cities for greater resilience to the combined future economic, social, and cultural impacts of climate change and energy transition. THIRD: In the service of the first two goals, to compile a freely available set of planning and design resources — including blog posts, web links, research references, and planning and design exemplars -- that further explore the question of how to build the capacity for resilience in our cities.
