Building Community Resilience: From the Ground Up
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The Power of the Local Fostering urban livability and resilience Vancouver, Canada July, 2013
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Presented at a public lecture in Vancouver, July, 2013, sponsored by Bing Thom Architects, as part of a larger resilience convening organized with the UBC Sauder School of Business, and One Earth.
Transcript of Building Community Resilience: From the Ground Up
The Power of the Local
Fostering urban livability and resilience
Vancouver, CanadaJuly, 2013
Cities have become the dominant global human habitat of this century in terms of
geography, experience, constituency, and influence
Morgan Grove
Cities: Managing Densely Settled Social-Ecological Systems, 2008
Misanthropy: un-naturalPatriarchy: uncontrollablePathology: sick, a problemTheology: sinfulMorality: badMorphology: pariah
Science: labBiology: hive
Physics: combustionEcology: ecosystem
Re-deem
Re-mediate
Re-generate
Re-habilitate
Re-claim
Re-vitalize
Re-store
Re-build
Re-new
Re-birth
Enabling self-organization
as the underpinning of city livability,
resilience and innovation
Systems/Capital in a City
Financial
Social
Bonding
BridgingSpiritual
Natural
Cultural
Tips
- Enable self-organization to build indigenous resilience across sectors/disciplines
- Strengthen assets- Democratize data, embrace ‘social’ media- Distant detached decision-making dooms
democracy: Localize- Identity-reinforcing ‘hubs’ : peer-to-peer
networks- make the connection to the ‘other’: vehicles that
enable horizontal connection: Art and Culture
A ‘problem’ in a city …
is work that still needs doing
