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Resilient Cities Network

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We are a global city-led nonprofit organization that brings together knowledge, practice, partnerships, and funding to empower cities to help them build a safe, equitable.

28/04/2026

The next big thing is a lot of small things.🐜

Cities need to address heat, flooding and access to green space, but land and resources are scarce. Many spaces are too small for large-scale projects, and funding is not always available to deliver them.

🌱Pocket Parks are emerging as practical solutions that work within these constraints, making use of overlooked spaces. They capture runoff during heavy rain, cool streets through shade, and create places where people can connect close to home.

What may seem like a small intervention creates a big impact when multiplied across cities.

Our new Practical Guide to plan, design and deliver Pocket Parks, developed in collaboration with and , focuses on 5️⃣ stages to transform cities one pocket at a time:

1. Choosing a site: Communities, cities and developers can identify sites that are vacant, underused or have the potential to respond to local needs.

2. Designing your Pocket Park: Every Pocket Park is inherently unique and should be shaped by its community, context and the space it claims.

3. Building your Pocket Park: Governance and delivery models are a critical component to building pocket parks, whether public, private or mixed.

4. Measuring your impact: Pocket parks deliver a wide range of benefits, and monitoring their impact must be built into project design.

5. Growing your impact: Pocket parks can unlock their greatest impact as part of a broader, interconnected network of greening efforts.

Together, we are embracing the power of small-scale change. Will you join in?

Download the guide to get started.
🔗Link in bio!

31/03/2026

🌹 As institutions, we often only see the thorns and not the rose.

When we only look at neighborhoods through data, policy challenges and risk indicators, it is easy to focus on what is missing.

In Bospolder–Tussendijken, Rotterdam, the story begins with what is already there: social networks, shared spaces and informal connection. Everyday acts of care that quietly hold communities together.

City of Rotterdam, , BoTu’s residents and partners including the Resilient Cities Network worked together to recognize and strengthen these existing foundations, supported by the UP2030 programme.

The result is two new resources that make up a Toolkit for Resilient Neighborhoods:

📖 Stories of Neighborhood Resilience from BoTu
Real examples showing how resilience emerges through people, relationships and local action.

🧰 Building Blocks for Resilient Neighbourhoods
A practical guide that translates these experiences into principles other communities can adapt to their own context.

🔗Link in bio!

11/03/2026

👩🏽‍🔬🧪 From scientist to Chief Resilience Officer, Dr. Jennifer Jurado has come to understand policy, ecology and infrastructure as interconnected systems.

"It became very clear early in my career that when we thought about climate change, the implications were really about water in our community", Dr. Jurado recalled.

In the years since, she has led multibillion-dollar water infrastructure projects to prepare Broward County for the future. Broward County Resilience

With multiple major infrastructure projects under her belt, Dr. Jurado speaks with authority on what it takes to bring partners together for sustained action over decades.

Read her Resilience Journal: https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org/dr-jennifer-jurado-is-mobilising-south-florida-to-meet-the-future-on-its-own-terms/

09/03/2026

These women believed they could make a difference.

Today, they’re doing it.🔥

Across the R-Cities network, many more women are driving change in cities around the world. We share a mission: to help build a world where every girl and woman has the chance to dream, grow, be safe, be healthy and seize opportunity.

Because when women lead, cities become stronger, safer and more resilient.

✊ Empower women and girls to be the changemakers of tomorrow.

02/03/2026

🌊 Floods are a traumatic experience for affected families, and their impacts linger well after the water rises.

Beyond the costs covered by insurance and government relief, new research uncovers the hidden costs of flooding. From taking unpaid time of work to scrambling for childcare, disruptions such as these can cost thousands. The costs and lost wages can add up to over a month's wages for families in social rented housing.

This new data from Zurich Municipal and the Centre for Economics and Business Research underlines the point that flood resilience policy and investments are not optional - they are essential lifelines for a safer, more affordable future.

Through , we're working with communities impacted by floods to co-create solutions and scale our impact so that no family has to bear the hidden cost of floods alone.

19/01/2026

🌻 Greener, cooler and safer schoolyards full of play!

What was once space for parking and closed to students in Quezon City is now the very first schoolyard transformed through the OASIS program.

At Diosdado P. Macapagal Public Elementary School, students, teachers and families now have a place to learn, gather and play together.

The new schoolyard uses natural materials like sand, soil, grass and wood to welcome biodiversity. A bird house, an insect hotel and native plants turn the space into a living classroom. Shaded areas, seating and open play spaces make room for everything from badminton to patintero, encouraging social ties over screen time.

This project came to life thanks to our partnership with Temasek Foundation. A huge thanks to everyone involved in creating a space shaped by nature and the community.

15/01/2026

Most resilience strategies look 5 to 10 years ahead. Political terms span even less time. Yet risks cities face are already reshaping the next decades. 🌍⏳

🔍 So what does resilience planning need to look like when cities must act in the medium term while building long-term capacity? Whose voices shape those decisions and what data helps guide them?

📍Lagos and📍Salvador explored these questions through foresight workshops held as part of our work with Lloyd’s Register Foundation and . By bringing together risk, data, lived experience and cross-sector perspectives, the cities stress-tested today’s choices against possible futures.

Cities cannot predict what will happen. What they can do is make better decisions now, grounded in people’s realities and strong enough to hold under uncertainty. In Lagos and Salvador, that work begins by treating the future as a shared responsibility.

11/12/2025

👋 Our first Resilient Cities Forum has wrapped and one thing was evident: cities are not waiting for the world to become less complicated, they are governing complexity with intention, creativity and courage.

• 3 energizing days
• 24 hours of conversations
• Hundreds of new connections
And a strong collective voice of cities saying:
“Here is what we are doing”.
“Here is what works”.
“And here is what we need next”.

💬 “When we began this journey more than a decade ago, urban resilience was fighting to be heard. Today, it shapes the way cities organize themselves, make decisions, invest and lead through uncertainty. And that is thanks to the people in this room,” shared Daniel Stander.

Across our network, cities are cooling schoolyards, restoring nature, embedding resilience into capital planning and advancing community-led action. These solutions are working. They are grounded in lived experience and protecting lives, strengthening systems and reducing long-term costs today.

📣 The task ahead is clear. In the face of growing pressures, cities cannot do this alone. They need a stronger ecosystem, so proven solutions can reach more people and support communities everywhere.

09/12/2025

The decade ahead belongs to cities.

☎️ We meet in London at a moment when shocks are intensifying and shaping daily life. Cities are leading with focus and capability, yet the pressures they face continue to grow. Heat is intensifying, infrastructure is ageing, costs are rising and inequalities are widening. Health systems are stretched and many cities face demands that exceed their resources.

A decade of city-resilience action has built the foundations for what the world needs today: resilience at scale. Together with The Conduit, we are bringing forward the Practitioners Call to Scale Urban Resilience.

Scaling resilience now depends on our collective action. More than a hundred contributions and over a hundred resilience practitioners have joined the call.

🔗 Stand with us for the decade ahead. Read and sign onto the Practitioners Call to Scale Urban Resilience, link in bio.

05/12/2025

🏃‍➡️ Cities can respond to growing heat and flooding risks — but we'll need everyone.

Businesses, neighbors and local organizations can take action to prepare their communities for emergencies, stay protected and recover faster.

Our new publication with Interface Studio, The Guidebook for Community Resilience, outlines steps that anyone can take to build a more resilient future. Together with engaged local governments, we can make resilience a shared mission in every community.

03/12/2025

Dubai, welcome to the Resilient Cities Network! 🌍✨

Dubai’s leadership in launching the Dubai Resilience Center marks a powerful step for the region, and we’re thrilled to welcome the city into our global community ahead of the Resilient Cities Forum, happening in London in just a few days.

We are also excited to introduce the Center’s Chief Executive Officer, Ahmad Burqibah, who joins a global community of Chief Resilience Officers working every day to strengthen community well-being, future readiness and resilience for millions.

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