Cities of Resilience: Integrated Adaptive Planning

Resilience, integrated development and family planning: building long-term solutions.

For the many individuals and communities experiencing natural disasters and environmental degradation, building resilience means becoming more proficient at anticipating, preventing, recovering, and rebuilding following negative shocks and stresses. Development practitioners have been working to build this proficiency in vulnerable communities around the world for several decades. This article ...

Integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning: Towards organizational resilience

Adaptive Parallelism: Integrated Performance, Power, and Resilience Modeling

The Need for Integrated Modeling From embedded devices to future exascale computers, increased parallelism in both the number of processing units and nodes will create unprecedented challenges to achieve the expected levels of application performance. System power consumption will be a major consideration. For large-scale systems, failures proportional to the size of the system will impair syst...

Terrorism and the Resilience of Cities

from land and housing prices, and interpret transport costs broadly to include the costs of consuming a wide variety of goods. For goods that are available only in the city (such as fine restaurants and unique entertainment), their cost for those outside the city includes airfare and hotel bills. 14. There is one other equilibrium between and where the real wage gap is zero, but it is unstable....

Planning Shrinking Cities

Developed, modern cities throughout the world are facing population declines at an unprecedented scale. Over the last fifty years, 370 cities throughout the world with populations over 100,000 have shrunk by at least 10% (Oswalt and Rieniets 2007). Wide swaths of the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan are projecting double-digit declines in population in the coming decades. Internationally, schola...