Recently, the Rockefeller Foundation announced it's next round of world cities to participate in its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge. Awesomally, Dallas made the list. Resilience in mosts minds deals with response to and ability to recover quickly from economic disasters. It is actually much more broad than that and Michael Berkowitz, President of 100 Resilient Cities, states that “When you think about what makes a resilient city, you have to think in holistic terms. The reality is that resilience building is a multi-sector, multi-level kind of enterprise.”
Some of Dallas identified challenges are:
- Aging Infrastructure
- Chronic Energy Shortages
- Flooding (Coastal and Rainfall)
- Infrastructure Failure
- Terrorism (???)
- Growing income inequality
- Limited water supply
- Lack of affordable housing
- And others...
It will be interesting how the public and private sectors respond to this challenge and how resiliency becomes a new tenant of Dallas city development.
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