Resilience By Design: The Future of Coastal Cities
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Resilience by Design The Future of Coastal Cities Nancy Kete, PhD The Rockefeller Foundation 3 May 2014
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Just as cities are hubs for innovations and investments that expand opportunities, they are also living laboratories confronting challenges of increasing complexity. They face a wide range of shocks and stresses ranging from natural hazards and climate change, to financial shocks and terrorism; slow-moving chronic stresses like poverty and violence and social conflict. As we consider how cities will adapt to the challenges of the 21st century – both known and unknown – the resilience agenda becomes increasingly important. This presentation highlights the Rockefeller Foundation’s understanding of city resilience, as informed by the RF-Arup City Resilience Framework, as well as its Resilience by Design portfolio, a series of place-based, landscape-scale interventions in U.S. coastal cities to show how we can build resilience with design while working with large federal institutions.
Transcript of Resilience By Design: The Future of Coastal Cities
Resilience by
DesignThe Future of Coastal Cities
Nancy Kete, PhDThe Rockefeller Foundation
3 May 2014
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities
Photo Credit: Rockefeller Foundation
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In order to get a grip on it, one must be able to relate resilience to other properties that one has some means of ascertaining, through observation.
Martin-Breen & AndriesResilience: A literature review
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Reflective systems are accepting of the inherent and ever-increasing uncertainty and change in today’s world.
Robust systems include well-conceived, constructed and managed physical assets.
Redundancy refers to spare capacity purposely created within systems so that they can accommodate disruption.Flexibility implies that systems can change, evolve and adapt in response to changing circumstances.
Resourcefulness implies that people and institutions are able to rapidly find different ways to achieve their goals or meet their needs during a shock or when under stress. Inclusion emphasises the need for broad consultation and engagement of communities, including the most vulnerable groups.
Integration and alignment between city systems promotes consistency in decision-making and ensures that all investments are mutually supportive to a common outcome.
Reflective
Robust
Redundant
Flexible
Resourceful
Inclusive
Integrated
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir [people]’s blood and probably will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work.
Daniel Burnham,Chicago Architect
Resilience by Design
Hurricane Katrina: Aug. 9, 2005
Hurricane Sandy: Oct. 28, 2012Photo Credit: NOAA Satellite Images
Change ParadigmsPave, pipe, pump and prevent• Allowed urbanization of delta and
coastal cities• Unintended consequences of
increased risks of devastating floods, subsidence, climate change, social isolation and inequality, ecological damage
Living with Water• Adopt multiple lines of defense• Increase long term safety by making
room for water• Create new economic and
development opportunities with safe, attractive waterways and water infrastructure
• Improve quality of life with water through capture, re-use, and retention to integrate healthy water into public spaces
13Photo Credit: Rebuild by Design
Photo Credit: Rebuild by Design
© NOAA, Bob Henson, UCAR
“Floods are ‘acts of god’ but flood losses are largely acts of man”
Gilbert F White, 1942
Photo Credit: Ken Abbott/UCB
Photo Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Photo Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Changing Course (Video): http://changingcourse.us/changingcoursevideo/
The Rebuilders – Rebuild by Design (Video):http://vimeo.com/90825595
We who live in the world’s deltas or on the edges of great oceans are the most immediate laboratory for
innovation and change, and our success or failure will be the symbol for the world’s ability to accomplish
great things, or not.But for all coastal cities our future is not just about
survival. … It’s about redemption.
It’s about getting this right, for now and for the generations to come.
- Cedric Grant Deputy Mayor, New Orleans
© John Rae
Thank you
