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The major framework of the presentations in this session was mainly based on the 100 Resilient Cities approach by the Rockefeller Foundation. The 100 RC framework has also introduced a City Resilience Index, which included a set of 12 goals and 52 indicators when it...

In the politics of resilience and gentrification, the presentations focused on the use of urban resilience as a metaphor for framing their arguments. The predominant focus was around the social networks that were at risk or how more resilient urban environments would...

During the session, and in-between the presentations of different case-studies around the world, the main themes evoked were innovation for smart cities, theoretical framework principles for ecology, a transformation towards resilient urban governance, open-data...

The second session on ‘Climate Resilience Governance and Planning’ focused on the city of Barcelona, Spain, examining through the use of different ‘hands-on’ analysis to determine the extent to which resilience was present and successful in the city, and in one...

Topics such as community, social, housing, and urban resilience, lead the conference and opened discussions about how cities are practicing the concept, and what are the main challenges these cities have to overcome to start reframing resilience. The main goal of this...

Sustainability of cities is one of the main goals of this century, being today an historically critical point of the environmental and urban management. Often, to reach it, governments have exalted the implementation of resilience strategies, but having a confused...

Making Sponge City by Deciphering Indigenous Ecological Wisdom: case study of Chengdu, China - by Lin Yuan This presentation focuses on how to absorb the flood water and reuse it in china. Yuan is trying to understand this way by making a historical study on the flood...

The general idea of this session is to focus on the tension between green micro infrastructure and the gray macro one. This focus shed light on different case studies in order to understand how these different sides preform, and which one can be used to form our own...

The session “From Regulations to Self-building” encompassed the idea of bridging academic concepts with practice through the use of policy as a framework for urban resilience. The five presentations focused on a range of regulations—municipal policies and humanitarian...