North America’s 2021 extreme heat event should compel governments to scale innovations from leading cities and countries to advance resilient, restorative and renewable cities.
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Melbourne and Sydney are members of 100 Resilient CIties, which the Rockefeller Foundation has said it will no longer fund. So what has the global network achieved? And what can we learn from this?
City decline is neither a fatality nor an urban nightmare. It can even be the background to a resilience strategy.
Research shows that access to urban green space makes people and neighborhoods healthier. But parks can’t work their magic if their design ignores the needs of nearby communities.
They used to be boring. Now they’re little arsonists.
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Principal and Vice Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor, Landscape Architecture, History, and Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Maître-assistant en environnement et études urbaines, Mines Paris - PSL
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Research Fellow in Resilient Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and City of Melbourne Chair in Resilient Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Resilience and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Human Geography, Monash University
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Fellow, MJ Wosk Centre for Dialogue; Executive Director, Renewable Cities, Simon Fraser University