June 16 and 17, London
Chief Resilience Officers and senior government officials from cities around the world will be sharing the challenges they face at Designing City Resilience, the international summit providing a platform for communication between all those involved in building city resilience.
Hear how Barcelona and Glasgow are tackling high levels of unemployment and a lack of social cohesion to improve resilience and create future opportunities for citizens.
Discover how Bristol is continuing to decentralise city government, helping to empower people to minimise risk and to help them to use resources more efficiently.
City Resilience is a challenge that cuts across scales, whether your city is developed or developing, dealing with chronic stress or shock.
Melbourne and Chennai will share how they are planning and managing their infrastructure and governance to reduce the risk of damage from severe flood events and other impacts of climate change.
Last week, New York published its plan for City Resilience – learn how they will deal with the daily challenges faced by a large successful city and prepare to cope with all too prevalent shocks such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Click here to download the summit programme
Designing City Resilience, being held on 16 and 17 June in London, aims to change the way cities are planned, designed and built – bringing together professionals from design and construction; development and infrastructure; city leadership and governance; insurance and finance; and technology and communications.
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