On 11 April at the seventh World Urban Forum (WUF7) in Colombia, Arup launched The City Resilience Framework, a tool to understand the complexity of cities and the factors which contribute to resilience can be understood and measured in order to shape urban planning, practice and investment.
This initiative, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation comprises 12 indicators that equate to a city’s immune system. Collectively, they enable people to survive and thrive, and businesses to prosper whichever shocks and stresses may occur. We developed this tool after thorough fieldwork in Cali, Colombia, and Santiago, Chile.
Resilience is the ability of cities and communities to deal with shocks and stresses caused by issues including food, water and energy security, climate change, disease, urbanisation and social unrest.