The City Resilience Index (CRI), developed by Arup with the support from the Rockefeller Foundation provides a comprehensive, technically robust and globally applicable basis for measuring city resilience. This first-of-its-kind tool allows cities, policy-makers,…
100 Resilient Cities Opens London Office
London, UK, July 1, 2015—100 Resilient Cities – pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) – today announced the opening of their regional…
Engineering Next-Generation Resilient Infrastructure
Imagine a future world where roads absorb stormwater rather than allow it to run off directly into waterways; where cost-effective 3-D printed seawalls…
Building for the Future: A New Federal Guide to Infrastructure Planning and Design
The White House just released a comprehensive Federal Guide to Infrastructure Planning and Design. This Guide incorporates programs and opportunities from ten federal agencies and lays out a new set of principles to inform the work of utilities, local governments,…
Winners Of 2014’s “100 Resilient Cities Challenge” Announced
NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2014—100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, announced today that 35 cities from around the world have been invited to join the 100 Resilient Cities network. The announcement was made during The Rockefeller…
HUD Launches $1 Billion National Disaster Resilience Competition
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro today launched a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition. He was joined by Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, in announcing that eligible states and…
