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The 2017 Urban Resilience

Summit we held on July 24-27

in New York City was our larg-

est and most ambitious con-

vening to date, bringing to-

gether over 500 resilience

leaders and practitioners from

all over the world.

In the past four years, we’ve built a movement

that has grown to inspire me beyond what I could

have imagined.

One of the many extraordinary ways in which

we’ve grown and are making an impact is

through our Chief Resilience Officers (CROs) –

those senior points of contact that drive the re-

silience agenda in cities. When we started, the

position of Chief Resilience Officer didn’t exist.

Now there are over 80 in our network alone,

spanning 47 countries, 6 continents, and 21 dif-

ferent languages.

Along with our CROs, our partners are

fundamental to catalyzing the change we want

to see. Today, our platform of city solutions

includes more than 100 partners, offering

services that represent over $230 million in value

for our member cities to access.

But resilience is not just about partners and CROs

– it’s about how cities approach their problems.

Together we have used the Strategy

development process to change the way cities

view their risk, opportunity, and resilience-

building priorities. Today, 32 cities have published

Resilience Strategies, with an additional 9

projected by year’s end, and we’ve helped them

raise over $500 million to implement their

resilience projects.

While we should be immensely proud of what

we have accomplished, this is just the beginning.

Working collectively, we have a historic opportu-

nity. Just through the first 32 Strategies we have

produced more than 1,600 initiatives. By the end

of 2019, when have 100 Strategies completed,

we will have no less than 5,000 initiatives – each

of which will have been designed in inclusive and

integrated ways with the intent of creating a re-

silient city. That is the opportunity.

If we commit to implementing these initiatives,

we can change our cities and change the world.

We have the chance to reduce the vulnerability

and improve the well-being of 500 million peo-

ple living in our cities.

At this year’s Summit, our network gathered to

celebrate our amazing accomplishments and

understand why this work continues to resonate

so strongly in cities throughout the world. Even

more importantly, we joined to think about the

work we have to do going forward, and why it is

even more important than ever.

This report provides insight into the robust

discussions we had at the 2017 Summit and how

we will channel these conversations into

concrete action through our collective work.

Because together we can build a movement that

will change the world.

Michael BerkowitzPresident, 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

Urban Resilience is the capacity of

individuals, communities, institutions,

businesses, and systems within a city to

survive, adapt, and grow no matter what

kinds of chronic stresses and acute

shocks they experience.

Letter from the President


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BY THE NUMBERS

12City Managers

150CROs & Resilience Team Members

90New York City Officials

130+ 100RC Partners

500+Summit Attendees

60Summit Sessions

7M+Social Media Impressions

70+ News Stories

Introduction

100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by

the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC)

is dedicated to helping cities around

the world become more resilient to

the physical, social and economic

challenges that are a growing part of

the 21st century.

From July 24-27, 2017, over 500

urban resilience leaders from cities

around the world, including 80

Chief Resilience Officers, gathered

in New York City to share ideas

and innovations from their cities,

collaborated on new solutions,

explored New York as a living

laboratory for urban resilience, and

charted the course of the movement

we are building together.

This report highlights key insights

and takeaways for action from the

robust discussions that took place

over the Summit’s four days of

programming.

THE URBAN RESILIENCE SUMMIT 2017 | NEW YORK CITY

HONOLULU

VANCOUVER

SEATTLE

BERKELEY

GUADALAJARA

COLIMA

PANAMA CITY

CALI

QUITO

SANTA FE

BUENOS AIRESMONTEVIDEO

SANTIAGO DE CHILE

OAKLAND

SAN FRANCISCO

LOS ANGELES

CALGARY

MINNEAPOLIS

ST. LOUIS

TULSA

EL PASOJUAREZ

MEXICO CITY

MEDELLIN

SALVADOR

RIO DE JANEIRO

PORTO ALEGRE

DALLAS

NEW ORLEANS

BOULDER

CHICAGO

TORONTO

GLASGOW

BELFAST

BRISTOL

LONDON

PARIS

LISBON

BARCELONA

GREATER MANCHESTER

VEJLE

THE HAGUE

ROTTERDAM

MILAN

BELGRADE

DAKAR

ACCRA

KIGALI

CAPE TOWN

LAGOSPAYNESVILLE

NAIROBI

ADDIS ABABA

CHENNAI

DURBAN

THESSALONIKI

TBILISI

ATHENS

LUXOR

PUNE

CAN THO

MELAKA

SINGAPORE

SEMARANG

SYDNEY

MELBOURNE

CHRISTCHURCH

WELLINGTON

JAKARTA

DA NANG

YIWU

HAIYAN

TOYAMA

KYOTO

SURAT

JAIPUR

MANDALAY

DEYANG

HUANGSHI

SEOUL

BANGKOK

BYBLOS

TEL AVIVRAMALLAH

AMMAN

ROME

MONTREAL

BOSTON

NEW YORK CITY

PITTSBURGH

WASHINGTON DC

NORFOLK

LOUISVILLENASHVILLE

ATLANTA

GREATER MIAMI & THE BEACHES

SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS

SAN JUAN

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STRATEGY PARTNERS

2017 PartnersPLATFORM PARTNERS


Communications HighlightsThe 2017 Urban Resilience Summit garnered significant attention from

print and digital press. Combined with blog posts, videos, live stream

conversations, and social media, Summit coverage reached a broad

international audience and elevated participants as global resilience

ambassadors.

MEDIA CLIPS SELECTION • WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show: Making the 21st

Century Metropolis Resilient

• Reuters: As Threats Grow, Expanding Cities Push for Stronger, Safer Societies

• Devex: 100 Resilient Cities’ Chief on How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change

• Xinhua News: NYC Mayor Objects Trump’s Decision of Withdrawing U.S. From Paris Agreement

• Citiscope: Transition Time for Chief Resilience Officers

• International Business Times: How Infrastructure in The U.S. Got to Be So Bad

• All Africa/TR Foundation: Africa: Cities Set the Pace on Fighting Poverty, Climate Change but Who Will Pay?

• Next City: Chief Resilience Officers Tie Economic Stability for All to Disaster Recovery in Cities

• GreenBiz: More Mayors Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

• Los Angeles Times: Measuring up U.S. Infrastructure Against Other Countries

• VICE Impact: International City Officials Met to Preempt Climate Change Destruction

• Observer: De Blasio Calls on Mayors to ‘Push a Little Harder’ on Climate Change

• Voice of America: New York Startups Shine Light on New Paths for World Cities

• Univision: Mobility and Migration, Challenges of The Big Cities to Be Discussed in New York

LIVESTREAM AND VIDEO SELECTION

Raj Shah and Michael Berkowitz conversation

Mayor de Blasio keynote Mayors discussing 100RC

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BY THE NUMBERS

70+News stories

56MPotential reach

2,800+Social media posts

7M+Social media impressions

650,000+Video views

250,000+Livestream views

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Galvanize the Movement

What started as a bold, but untested, idea on how to best help cities prepare for the challenges of the 21st century has transformed into a global movement driven by

city leadership, urban stakeholders, and corporate and nonprofit

partners. We asked our founders, city leaders, and partners to reflect on the past 4 years and share their

hopes for the future.

“ My ask of each of you is for this 100 Resilient Cities movement to go forward boldly with an absolute focus on delivering real, large-scale results for the more than 500 million men, women, and children who live in the cities you represent today.”

—DR. RAJIV J. SHAHPRESIDENT, THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

“ If you join it means your consciousness is already set to bold, aggressive action. Let’s push each other. Let’s inspire each other. Let’s go someplace that no one could’ve imagined in the service of saving this planet.”

—BILL DE BLASIOMAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY

“ For all our urban challenges, there will be massive opportunities, and there is no substitute for minds that think mile-high.”

—DR. JUDITH RODINFORMER PRESIDENT, THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

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Collective Network StoriesFour years into this movement, we have seen the power of the Network in action. To kick off our time together, we invited cities and partners to share stories of collaborations and collective accomplishments.

NATURAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

MELBOURNE, DURBAN,

EARTH ECONOMICS

The Resilience Teams of

Melbourne and Durban

shared how a network

convening with 4 additional member cities as

well as partners from Earth Economics (EE) and

the Nature Conservancy helped them move

urban biodiversity at the center of the resilience

agenda. 100RC partner EE added that this and

other interactions with the 100RC network

helped access key information on aggregate

demand for new solutions. For example, to

address the lack of cost-benefit analysis tools

that incorporate ecosystem services, EE collabo-

rated with 100RC partner Impact Infrastructure

to develop AUTOCASE+, a cost-benefit analysis

tool now able to evaluate a wide range of green

infrastructure costs and benefits, including

ecosystem services.

URBAN REFUGEES

AMMAN, ATHENS,

INTERNATIONAL

RESCUE COMMITTEE

The CROs of Athens and

Amman shared how their

collaboration with eight

fellow cities to address

common challenges of refugee integration in

urban settings not only helped create

momentum by shifting the narrative from

humanitarian crisis to resilience opportunity, but

also catalyzed impactful practice transfers and

partnerships. For example, Athens is developing

a municipal identification program modeled after

the IDNYC program and Amman is partnering

with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

to implement the resilience strategy. 100RC

partner IRC added that the unique nature of the

partnership already helped secure external

funding for implementation. Mayors from Athens,

New York, Amman, and other participating cities

are now advocating for better inclusion of city

leaders in national and international negotiations.

INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION

SANTIAGO DE CHILE,

ERNST & YOUNG

The CRO of Santiago de

Chile called out the

collaboration with 100RC

partner Ernst & Young

(EY). EY was instrumental

in helping the city understand its mobility

challenges and design innovative solutions to

address the rural-urban divide in the metropoli-

tan region. The CRO explained how EY’s recom-

mendations were incorporated into the city’s

Resilience Strategy, and EY intervened to stress

how the team’s deep exposure and involvement

in the resilience strategy building process helped

prioritize solutions that go beyond improved

mobility outcomes and look at interdependen-

cies between transportation access and socio-

economic equity.

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• Half of the infrastructure needed in cities by

2050 has yet to be built; this is a great

opportunity to build resilience;

• It will be key for the cities of the future to

implement technological innovation in an

inclusive, resilient way;

• Building long-term resilience is challenging

because political leaders are rewarded for

short-term, visible gains rather than for the

prevention of future risks;

• There is a wide gap between city and national

interests and priorities, it’s important to

acknowledge this and work to address it.

SPEAKERS:

Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,

Senior Director, The World Bank

Zahira Asmal,

Founder and Managing Director, The City

Michael Kimmelman,

Architecture Critic, The New York Times

Chris Michael,

Editor, Guardian Cities

Future of Cities PanelWe spent the rest of our afternoon reflecting on the future – the future of our cities and of our role as leaders in the urban resilience movement.

I was able to leverage the 100RC Network and my role as CRO to lead the resilience agenda under two different mayors.

— PATRICK BROWN, CRO,

CITY OF ST. LOUIS

ON BEING A CRO NAVIGATING

POLITICAL CHANGE

Set your goals high, take baby steps, and just keep on beating, and do it joyfully.

— KRISHNA MOHAN RAMACHANDRAN,

CRO, CITY OF CHENNAI

ON HIS NEWLY APPOINTED ROLE

Our work supporting cities around the world as a 100RC Strategy Partner has exposed us to new approaches and innovations that we have adapted to our own practice.

— CLAIRE BONHAM-CARTER,

PRINCIPAL, AECOM

ON BEING A 100RC STRATEGY PARTNER

The partnership with 100 Resilient Cities has enabled Amec Foster Wheeler to connect with new companies and develop new urban resilience solutions.

— PETER HALL, GLOBAL PROGRAM

MANAGER, AMEC FOSTER WHEELER

ON BEING A 100RC PLATFORM

PARTNER

It’s one thing to talk about transformation, it’s another to design and implement actions and initiatives that deliver systemic change. That’s the work we have begun, and that’s the work we are committed to continuing.

— LINA LIAKOU, CRO, THESSALONIKI

ON BEING A CRO TRANSITIONING

FROM STRATEGY PLANNING TO

IMPLEMENTATION

My past as a 100RC Strategy Partner will inform my future as CRO. The evolution of my role is a testament to the uniqueness of this network.

— AIJUN QIU, CRO, DEYANG

ON TRANSITIONING ROLE FROM 100RC

STRATEGY PARTNER TO CRO

Individual Network StoriesJust as cities are made up of individuals and communities, the resilience movement is also made up of incredible individuals and leaders. We took a moment to highlight some of the individual accomplishments and impacts from the Network.

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TUESDAY, JULY 25

Build Relationships

In a field as new as urban resilience, it is essential to build on a foundation of personal and professional relationships and by

gathering the resilience community together we can accelerate

the pace of change and rate of response we are hoping to see in

our cities.

Participants spent Tuesday morning in individual Network

tracks – with Chief Resilience Officers, resilience team mem-

bers, and partners sharing their experience and perspective

with each other – before bringing the entire community to-

gether to dive into collaborative working sessions in the

afternoon. These 14 Peer & Partner sessions were designed to

respond to aggregated demand from cities and focused on

topics ranging from social inclusion to leveraging resilience

value from infrastructure investment, to building economic

resilience in low income communities, to data analytics for

cities. Concurrently on Tuesday, we engaged in working

sessions with leading City Managers from 12 Member Cities

across the globe on the issues facing their cities. This was a

unique moment to demonstrate the power of the urban resil-

ience community at work.


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Economic Resilience

Data Analytics

Infrastructure

Disaster Risk Financing

Equity

Youth

Resilient Project Design

Water

Transforming Cities

Community Engagement

Waste

Health

Resilience Garage

Tactical Urbanism

Online Collaboration Opportunities

Identified

Knowledge Products To Be Captured

Potential Funding Opportunities

Identified

Potential New Platform Partner

Solutions Identified

Opportunity To Add Additional Network

Partners/SMAs

Colab Candidates New City-Partner Engagement

Identified

Network at WorkA number of promising opportunities for collaboration, funding, new Network engagement and learning have emerged through these sessions. 100RC is working to advance these opportunities in the coming months.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26

Share Practical KnowledgeFrom exploring resilient food

systems in the Bronx, to advancing our transportation system with the NYC Ferry in Manhattan, to seeing how we partner with the leaders in

Brooklyn on building healthy and safe neighborhoods, to learning about

Resilient Green Infrastructure Projects in Staten Island, to visiting an IDNYC Enrollment Center in Queens, New York City is truly a living laboratory

for urban resilience.

On Wednesday, Summit participants immersed themselves in the

rich diversity of the New York City region’s resilience opportunities

and challenges. The day commenced with a panel discussion led by

New York City CRO Dan Zarrilli on New York City’s resilience

journey, after which 374 Summit attendees embarked on 14 concur-

rent living labs across the five boroughs and New Jersey. More than

90 people from the New York City Mayor’s Office and leaders from

two dozen community organizations shared their expertise tackling

a range of resilience challenges with the Network. Participants used

subways, public buses, public ferries, bicycles and their own two

feet on their journeys, logging more than 50 miles between the 14

groups. The day concluded with small group dinners in the commu-

nities who shared their stories with our community of practitioners.


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Living Laboratories

374 Participants90 NYC City Officials14 Living Labs5 Boroughs + New Jersey

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Sites: Brooklyn Navy Yard, New Lab, Steiner Studios. Leads: Cities of New Orleans, Pitts- burgh and Glasgow. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, NYC Eco- nomic Development Corporation, and Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation.

Diversifying economies in post-industrial cities

1. Connect workforce and economic develop-ment: Education and training is critical to foster-ing a diversified economy. This means supporting local skilled workers but also building skills and experience if they don’t have them— “creating a pathway to the Yard.”

2. Build resilience into the equation: Incubators and accelerators can have a secondary goal of supporting businesses that contribute to the city’s resilience goals, e.g. incubators could accommo-date businesses working on climate change.

3. Be conscious that innovation is a force for good but can also cause inequality: Inclusiveness should be a priority from the early stages.

Sites: Brooklyn-Howard Houses Farm, Brownsville Public Library, Belmont Ave Corridor, Made in Brownsville Store, Osborne Plaza, 3 Black Cats Café, Brownsville Teen Lounge, Van Dyke Houses and Jobs Plus, Livonia Avenue Corridor and Betsy Head Park Lead: 100 RC Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency

Advancing equity and economic opportunities

1. An integrated plan for poverty reduction: Fighting poverty requires a systems approach and intentional cross-departmental efforts, ranging from early childhood education to mental health programming and workforce development.

2. Share data tracking and build partnerships: Public agencies, community organizations and residents must work together to identify issues, develop shared solutions, and monitor progress.

3. Leverage community assets: Third spaces like community centers, and programs such as performance-based social services contracting, can create social cohesion.

Addressing climate resilience from flooding to financing

1. Make the investment case: Support cities (through the Platform Partner Network, 100RC SDI Leads, or 100RC Subject Matter Advisors) to put a price tag on the full cost of inaction. This can help CROs and their teams gather political support for solutions.

2. Focus on financing implementation to best leverage Platform Partner support: Support from Platform Partners to conduct vulnerability assessments on climate change impacts is helpful to many cities—but it must include post-study financing to ensure that the studies will lead to action.

Sites: The Big U Project, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Two Bridges, Red Hook, Louis Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier, Beard Street, and Coffey Park. Leads: City of Rotterdam and Mexico City. Co-Leads: Arcadis, Deltares, and NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

Starting the Resilience Conversation from the Community Perspective

1. Invest in community engagement: Intention-ality and care in designing an authentic engage-ment process strengthens a community’s resilience and capacity to respond to change.

2. Share projections and data in a comprehensible format: Create space for community representatives to understand and engage with data on resilience challenges in a creative, accessible way.

3. Connect with people: Proactively infuse moments of fun and levity into an engagement process. The typical “town hall” style of engage-ment can be confrontational and accomplish little meaningful dialogue.

Sites: Eastern Rockaways, Rockaway Institute for Sustainable Environment, Arverne View, Edgemere. Leads: City of Sydney, AECOM. Co-Lead: NYC Housing and Preservation Development.


Transforming the public realm with civic leadership

1. Leverage private capital for public spaces: This shouldn’t be done at expense of public access. Cities that do not have a strong culture of philanthropy experience an aversion to private money in public spaces.

2. There is value in incremental change: Demonstrating small pilots can build momentum towards a bigger goal.

3. Developing peer-to-peer networks: It is helpful to share the message whenever possible and through the right messenger. It is also useful to re-frame the narrative to attract an audience that may be more sympathetic.

Sites: Times Square, The High Line and Rebuild by Design Lead: HR&A Advisors. Co-Leads: Times Square Alliance, Friends of the High Line, NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation, and NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs.

City and the water’s edge

1. Showcase opportunities: Highlight economic growth and active/passive open recreation spaces to drive improvements to river pollution, treatment, and management: This can bring various stakeholders to the table, gain momentum, and open up financing sources.

2. Mobilize both private and social capital for regional water management: Do not only depend on the city government’s capacity and resources.

3. Design to bring people not just to the edge but into the water: This end goal sets the bar much higher for integrated infrastructure design, maintenance, and monitoring.

Sites: Greenpoint, Newtown Creek, Dumbo and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Leads: HR&A Advisors and the Cities of Deyang and Haiyan. Co-Leads: NYC Dept. of City Planning, NYC Dept. of Environmental Planning, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation.

Sites: Hudson Yards, Port Authority Bus Terminal, East River Ferry Tour, Walking Tour of North Williamsburg and parts of Broadway in Mid-town. Leads: Cities of Quito, Cali and Miami-Dade. Co-Leads: AECOM, Perkins Eastman, NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Economic Develop-ment Corporation

Building resilience through mobility solutions

1. Mature BRT systems (5+ years old or more) are seeing decreased ridership: A number of contributing factors such as reliability, quality of service, and route configuration need to be studied closely along with the user experience.

2. Keep citizens informed: People need clearer, more easily accessible, and up-to-date information on the city’s current and future plans for transport modes and changes to services.

3. Find creative ways to partner and fund public transport: Funding and financing public transport is an extremely complex issue; no one agency is able to bear the costs.

Sites: Hunts Point Produce Market,, Barretto Park, GrowNYC, Union Square Greenmarket, Graffiti Earth Restaurant. Leads: City of Boulder and New York City. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, NYC Economic Development Corporation, and NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

Food system vulnerability and resilience

1. Food safety first: Food safety is most important when thinking about the vulnerability of regional food systems.

2. Food waste is the “Swiss army knife” of the whole system: Changing how we handle food waste is key to thinking about costs, emissions, hunger, etc.

3. Understand food supply chains and infrastructure: Food is often thought about in terms of growing it (soil, water, nutrition, etc.) but for a city, the key risk points in the event of a shock are most likely transportation and refrigeration. Usually, food does not fall under municipal jurisdiction, but cities must start maintaining information on food.


Affordable housing and resilient communities

1. Use a holistic approach for systemic change: Housing solutions are shaped by and are interdependent with livelihood and economic strategies. A holistic approach is essential to achieve systemic change.

2. Shift perspectives: Shift from real estate to building communities, from housing to habitat, from family needs to community needs.

3. Pool in resources: Blending pockets of money (transit, public health, housing) can create a bigger resource pool to create an integrated community.

Sites: Arverne by the Sea and Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Leads: Perkins Eastman and FMSD. Co-Leads: NYC Housing and Preservation Development, NYC Housing Authority.

Resilient energy systems in the urban context

1. Focus on reducing soft costs: Soft costs are often what creates barriers to entry for new solutions (e.g., requirements to register as generators to share energy).

2. Build a global data bank of energy solutions and pilots: The Network can take leadership, enable sustained interactions (working groups), and involve other city networks like C40.

3. Energy as an entry point for community-based/-owned projects: Many small-scale interventions are best managed by the communities they serve. Ensuring proper sensitization of the intervention, up- skilling of stakeholders, and an appropriate growth model will enable multi-layered success.

Sites: Five Borough Parks Department’s Admin Building in Randall’s Island, NYU Langone and Rebuild by Design offices. Leads: 100RC Global Delivery. Co-Lead: NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability.

Improving city resilience with urban biodiversity

1. Protecting and enhancing biodiversity can address shocks and stresses: Biodiversity offers water and heat regulating services, erosion preventions, habitat protection, and cultural and recreational services.

2. Biodiversity management, preservation, and investment are critical in good times: Trying to restore or create anew is far more resource intensive and challenging than preserving existing biodiversity assets before they degrade or disappear.

3. Use economics to tell stories: Underlining the relationship between nature and healthy communities can be an effective way to garner support and funding for biodiversity initiatives.

Sites: Bayswater Park, Jamaica Bay Wildlike Refuge, Sunset Cove. Leads: Earth Economics, City of Melbourne, Science + Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay. Co-Leads: Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy, Natural Areas Conservancy, National Parks Service, NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation.

Sites: ioby office, 4th Ave Over- pass, Carroll St Subway station, Southeast corner of Degraw St and Smith St, Brooklyn Greenway and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Leads: Street Plans Collaborative and ioby. Co-Leads: NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

Civic crowdfunding and tactical urbanism in Brooklyn

1. Iterate big ideas on a small scale: Tactical urbanism approaches help voice community needs in a tangible, measurable, quick, and cheap way so that long-term, high budget projects can be delivered for maximum impact.

2. Crowd-funding can help finance community needs: Civic crowd-funding helps bridge gaps in addressing community needs which city governments may not support.

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Sites: Elmhurst Public Library, Flushing Queens Library, Hindu Temple Society and Himalayan Yak Restaurant. Leads: International Rescue Committee and NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Global migration: resilient cities at the forefront

1. Collaborate with various city agencies and partners across sectors: This is important for a city to successfully implement a program.

2. Take a holistic approach to addressing the needs of refugees and migrants: This will ensure that maximum resources are leveraged.

3. Leverage the current momentum: Now, more than ever, migration issues are prominent in the media. This attention has diversified support for addressing these issues, fostered greater collaboration among community actors, and has sparked cross-sectoral partnerships.

Sites: Hoboken, Staten Island and Lower Manhattan. Leads: Arup and Rebuild by Design. Co-Leads: NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, City of Hoboken Mayor’s Office.

Rebuilding by bike, bus and boat: exploring resilient communities

1. Use community engagement and multi-benefit infrastructure design processes: Complex challenges range from expansive flood zones to pushback from residents. Early buy-in from critical stakeholders is important for design and implementation.

2. Use data and innovative design solutions for green-blue infrastructure: Understanding not just ecology but also species, their breeding seasons and habitats can provide innovative solutions.

3. Combine funding streams: Taking a fresh look at existing revenue streams, as well as new ones can unlock financing solutions for more impactful projects and resilient communities.

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THURSDAY, JULY 27

Advance the Work in Cities

By the end of 2019, when all 100 cities will have completed their Resilience Strategies, there will be no less than 5,000 initiatives – each of which will have been designed in inclusive and integrated ways with the intent of

creating a resilient city. If we commit to implementing these initiatives, we have the chance to reduce the vulnerability and improve the well-

being of the 500 million people that call our 100 resilient cities their home.

Summit participants spent Thursday accelerating their work through

targeted sessions focused on implementation priorities. This deeper

dive into resilience topics of interest helped Member Cities and

partners move from planning for urban resilience to building it.

Following a morning plenary featuring implementation insights from

across the globe, the Network pivoted to 13 concurrent working

sessions led by CROs, city representatives and partner organiza-

tions on a range of topics from measuring resilience to financing

resilient infrastructure.



SESSION TOPIC KEY LEARNINGS

Collaborative Informal Settlement Action

1. Relocation of informal settlements in high-risk areas is most successful

when local governments build trust, often through community ambas-

sadors or local NGOs who act as a bridge.

2. There is a logic behind people’s decision to live in informal settlements.

Data and understanding of what drive informal settlements is critical.

3. Cities should find ways to formalize aspects of informality in key policy

areas, such as land ownership and economic opportunity.

4. Cities should address informality holistically, rather than just as a

housing problem, an approach that requires better integration across

departments and sectors.

Communicating Resilience

1. Developing a story around the particular shocks and stresses a city

faces and the impact they have an individual person can help engage

community members in the resilience conversation.

2. Communicating the term ‘resilience’—whether it exists in a local lan-

guage or not—requires practitioners to reflect on their own connection

to the word and what it means for their city.

3. Focusing storytelling efforts on resilience projects is key to galvanizing

financial, political and popular support for implementation and institu-

tionalization.

Disaster Resilience

1. Building relationships with communities, businesses and a cross-sec-

tion of city agencies is critical to disaster resilience.

2. Don’t wait for the crisis to establish productive working relationships.

3. Communication of risk—with a focus on all hazards, not just the most

recent or prominent— requires targeted strategies for different groups.

4. Develop tools and resources for city agencies, communities and others

to create and practice their own plans while using their convening

power to ensure collaboration and information sharing.


Community Preparedness

1. Cities struggling with communicating risk to local communities should

consider ‘Citizen Science’ as a powerful tool for risk reduction and stake-

holder engagement.

2. In building early warning systems, cities should experiment with new and

old technologies alike—from sensors to traditional percussion instruments—

and involve citizens in the creation and management of these tools.

3. Cities should explore alternative financing mechanisms for disaster relief,

including the creation of ‘community insurance funds’ or ‘resilience banks’

for residents who contributed pre-disaster.

Energy Transition

1. Local context and local markets are critical; how can cities better under-

stand user demand by tracking use and opening up competition among

various energy providers (eg, through blockchain technology)?

2. Identify opportunities for regulation reform and lowering barriers to entry

to the market through smaller-scale pilots.

3. Sustained collaboration across cities is required to advance this emerging

practice through facilitated connections within the 100RC Network and

with other networks.

Collaborative Design

1. CROs can leverage 100 Resilient Cities, local partners and resources to

create a design-driven, preliminary place-based strategy for communities.

2. Mobilize talent; find partners who will be unique to this effort.

3. Open the process to the community. Give them ownership to spark

conversation and ideas.

4. Create an interdisciplinary task force to work together, hold design

charettes or symposium events with property owners, designers, and

residents.

5. Work with leaders to survey stakeholders; talk directly to landowners.

6. Map the community context. Use GIS data to illustrate overlapping

socioeconomic, infrastructure and climate-related challenges.

Thematic & Functional Sessions



Designing with Water in Cities

1. Many cities continue to feel the impact of water challenges, including

how climate change impacts the water cycle, water stress, water scarcity,

and water infrastructure.

2. Renewing pipe infrastructure may be costly but can be cost-efficient in

the long term.

3. Cities should an integrated approach to address both green and blue

infrastructure.

4. Water harvesting techniques (such as rain barrels/cisterns, rain gardens,

green roofs) can provide valuable water and energy saving benefits to

cities and serve as community amenities.

5. Building public awareness and feelings of ownership/responsibility for

local water issues among residents can drive behavioral change.

The Future of Mobility

Given the rapid technological progress underway, connected and autono-

mous vehicles (CAVs) are becoming a reality. Cities can prepare for the

risks and opportunities this technology poses by:

1. Creating the right types of partnerships so that the city benefits as well

as the private sector partner.

2. Managing responsibility between local, state, and federal government in

making decisions.

3. Enabling access to technical expertise and support to create space for

innovation. More creativity is needed where standard solutions don’t work.

4. Collecting relevant and city-wide transport data, particularly when this

data is owned by non-public actors.

Resilience at theMetropolitan Scale

1. Key resilience challenges, such as water management or transportation,

often transcend administrative boundaries and are best addressed when

neighboring municipalities collaborate with each other, either formally or

informally.

2. Effective governance and leadership is more important than formal

mandates –collaborative cities are better able to leverage resources and

successfully implement.

3. Cities have integrated metropolitan considerations into the 100RC

strategy process, for example by including metropolitan stakeholders in

their City Resilience Committee or by designing strategy initiatives at the

metropolitan scale.


Planning and Construction in High-Growth Cities

1. Investments in land-use / building regulatory capacity can yield

many co-benefits, from climate change mitigation and adaptation to

cultural heritage preservation.

2. Flexible building regulations that align with local vernacular while

taking into account strict safety standards and the realities of the

local construction market are key.

3. Investments should be made in participatory approaches that

engage local residents and builders in co-design and education

around regulations.

Business Case for Resilience

1. Measuring resilience is a complex endeavor because there are almost

an infinite number of variables that could be measured at different

scales. A range of concrete indicators (cost) and proxy measures

(trust) need consideration.

2. Focusing on project-scale valuation and measurement with an eye on

scaling these practices up is an important starting point.

3. Building awareness among target audiences (funders, policymakers,

etc.) of measurement challenges and opportunities is critical to

advancing the work.

Financing Infrastructure

1. Building resilience through infrastructure requires different gover-

nance bodies to collaborate in new ways that lead to more robust

project development.

2. Maximizing co-benefits from infrastructure projects can open up

potential new funding and financing streams.

3. Aid agencies, taxes, and public-private partnerships are not the only

sources of revenue; by thinking broad, cities can unlock new,

non-traditional sources of funding (e.g., installation of PV panels on

roads to generate and sell electricity, advertisement space on public

transport infrastructure).

Budget, Assets, Regulation: City Tools for Implementation

1. Cities need to look beyond new funding sources to support the

implementation of their resilience strategies.

2. Taking a closer look at cities’ existing funding sources (expense and

capital budgets), cities’ procurement practices, cities’ franchising

agreements, as well as assets (buildings, people, convening power)

and regulation (zoning, taxation, licensing) is critical to unlocking and

recombining available resources in new ways for resilience.

As we return to our respective cities and

daily routines, we will have a chance to

reflect on the week and gain the kind of

insight that will make it even more

valuable. Already we can already take

away several important observations and

lessons as we go forward: the community

of practice is taking hold; we are

determined to take collective action for

change; we need to invest in

measurement to prove the impact of

resilience interventions; we need to focus

on the challenge of balancing systems

change with project delivery; and more

awareness of common challenges, areas

of expertise, and solutions across the

network will allow us to maximize our

movement’s resources and find new

resources.

This is a new era for our movement. How

we adopt what we learned from this is a

critical part of how we can accomplish

the goals are we setting for it. As we set

forth and continue our work, we must

keep sight of the important questions we

are asking each other and on which we

have already heard valuable insights on:

• What political resources can we

leverage to implement effectively?

• What changes are needed upstream in

the 100RC process to set us up for

success in implementation?

• How can we better leverage the power

of the Network to identify

opportunities for collective action?

• How can we preserve the resilience

value in projects while ensuring they

can also be implemented in a

reasonable time frame?

• How do we more effectively crowd-in

existing resources or find new ones for

implementation?

• How should the CRO role change in

implementation?

• How can partners more generally

collaborate with the movement beyond

their service offering?

• After this week, what commitments will

you make to take this work forward,

either in city or as a Network?

We walk away from the week energized

and inspired and challenged — to keep

thinking about everything we can accom-

plish and ways we should aim to do so to

help the most people we can. We are

mindful of the incredible voices and

leadership that we all contributed, from

our longest-serving CROs to our most

recent additions, to platform partners

and other allies who are eager to help us

all catalyze this movement that can help

shape the lives of billions.

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